Timothy Birdnow

During the ongoing civil war in the late Roman republic Gaius Julius Caesar arrived with his army at the Rubicon river - the border to Rome itself. No army had ever gone inside to operate before, but Caesar dared do the unthinkable and invaded his own country. That was the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire.

Caesar would bear the title of Tyrannis - which was a Greek term for someone who assumed total power in a polis, or city state. When Brutus assassinated him it was with the cry "sic semper tyrannis" or "thus always to tyrants". Caesar had taken power on multiple fronts, not just political or magistrative. He systematically dismantled the old Republic, gathering all power to himself.

Caesar was only able to assume power because he had an army and dared do the unthinkable; cross the Rubicon and seize it.

That is what just happened yesterday evening. The American Left, and particularly the Democratic Party, just crossed the Rubicon and convincted an innocent man of a dubious, hard to understand crime that they twisted into a felony through legal gymnastics. The man was the standard-bearer of half the country and the likely future President.

This was unprecedented and spells the end of the American republic as surely as did Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon. We now no longer have the rule of law, nor the peaceful transfer of power. This spells the beginning of power at any cost by any means necessary, and it is going tolead to not just civil strife but eventually war. America is going to become like Ireland had been until just a few years ago I fear. And if it doesn't it should because if this can be done to Trump it can and will be done to everyone who gets in the way of those in power. There will never be another peaceful transition of power in this country. The "Progressives" now understand they can overturn the Will of the People through the abuse of law and power.

The only way to put this back in the bottle is by a massive retaliatory strike. Mutual Assured Destruction stopped this in times past and now one side has launched the birds. There is absolutely nothing to be done but to counterattack with everything. The GOP MUST do this to them, or it is finished. Sadly I fear most Republicans don't understand that because they are happy making money and enjoying their status and letting Democrats controlthe agenda. Now they are forced to step up or disappear as surely as did the Whigs just before the Civil War.

I doubt the GOP will have the strength to do what is needed and the end result will be the public will take matters into their own hands. We are now primed for the rise of an American version of the IRA. Take away the Ruloe of Law and you wind up with a horrible criminal system. The Mafia was the same in Italy. People have to have an outlet that dispenses justice. If the authorities are too corrupt they will create their own.

But the Democrats stopped that SOB Donald Trump, yessirree! No border wall now! And they have destroyed the country in the process.

Lord Acton famously stated " Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely" and power has corrupted a large swath of the nation. Now power is all they care about.

I am mindful of the wrath of Jesus towards the rebellious angels in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 6:

"That they may have their wish, to try with me
In battle which the stronger proves; they all,
Or I alone against them; since by strength
They measure all, of other excellence
Not emulous, nor care who them excels;
Nor other strife with them do I vouchsafe.
So spake the Son, and into terrour changed
His countenance too severe to be beheld,
And full of wrath bent on his enemies.
At once the Four spread out their starry wings
With dreadful shade contiguous, and the orbs
Of his fierce chariot rolled, as with the sound
Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host.
He on his impious foes right onward drove,
Gloomy as night; under his burning wheels
The stedfast empyrean shook throughout,
All but the throne itself of God. Full soon
Among them he arrived; in his right hand
Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent
Before him, such as in their souls infixed
Plagues: They, astonished, all resistance lost,
All courage; down their idle weapons dropt:
O'er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he rode
Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate,
That wished the mountains now might be again
Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.
Nor less on either side tempestuous fell
His arrows, from the fourfold-visaged Four
Distinct with eyes, and from the living wheels
Distinct alike with multitude of eyes;
One Spirit in them ruled; and every eye
Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire
Among the accursed, that withered all their strength,
And of their wonted vigour left them drained,
Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen.
Yet half his strength he put not forth, but checked
His thunder in mid volley; for he meant
Not to destroy, but root them out of Heaven:
The overthrown he raised, and as a herd
Of goats or timorous flock together thronged
Drove them before him thunder-struck, pursued
With terrours, and with furies, to the bounds
And crystal wall of Heaven; which, opening wide,
Rolled inward, and a spacious gap disclosed
Into the wasteful deep: The monstrous sight
Struck them with horrour backward, but far worse
Urged them behind: Headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heaven; eternal wrath
Burnt after them to the bottomless pit."

This is the fate of those who seek power and power alone, and it will be the fate of these who destroy this nation in the end, to be smote by forces far greater than they and to be driven off the parapet of Heaven ito the bottomless pit.

But in the meantime they are ruining America and making her a cautionary tale.

That is, if and when the American People rise against this and then they will see a "terrible change in countenance" as we remember who we are and what we stand for and how they seduced us into Hell.

As ye sow so shall ye reap, the Bible says. They have sown the whirlwind.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 09:16 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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