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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Speaking of Rome and the prior thread on impeachment kinda brings to mind 
Sallust.  Which in turn reminds me of the whole lead up to O.I.L./Iraq war. 
Which in turn brought to mind the "conversion of the zealous and the 
innocent to a criminal conspiracy."

Lynda, whose thoughts are sometimes inclined to wander off into other areas 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>


> Nothing new either.  Recall that under imperial Rome, the government owned
> vast agricultural holdings which it ran by means of slaves, and it did 
> business
> under the banner that read  SPQR  (Senatus PopulusQue Romanus  = The 
> Senate
> and the Roman People),
>
> Like every other politician the 'going to the people' is fake.  If Obama 
> goes
> to enough people and they say "We don't want to have anything to do with 
> your
> Liberation Theology or socialism"  do you think he is suddenly going to
> change all that?   </HTML>