Reply #21: Exactly, leveymg, and where is our praetorian guard

[jmcgowanjm]

A couple of questions-
who got that video of the Beslan school to Moscow?
who sold United/American short?

The Praetorian Guard of both respective empires
know the answers to these questions.

I see devolution ahead. For both Russia and the US.

The reforms of Diocletian (c.236-305; emperor, 284-305),
who brought to an end the period of "Military Anarchy"
(235-284) and Constantine the Great (c.272-337; emperor, 324-337),
who made Christianity the favored religion of the
empire, completed the process of transformation that the
3rd century made necessary to sustain the Empire. What
began as an attempt to bring peace and prosperity ended as
a program to insure the very survival of the Roman
Empire. Diocletian tried to bring some kind of emperor-
worship to Rome but by this time the Empire could see the
end. The citizens were now called upon to sacrifice
everything -- wealth, property, lives -- for the preservation of
the Roman State. And Diocletian demanded that he be
called Dominus noster (Lord and Master), rather than
princeps or imperator. More and more barbarian tribes settled
in the Empire and were invited to do so as long as they
paid taxes and supplied soldiers to the army. By 300, more
than seventy-five percent of the army was composed of
German soldiers. The army itself was barbarized and turned
into an instrument of sheer oppression. In such a situation
it soon became apparent that the Germans distrusted
the Romans and the Romans hated the Germans in acts
of blatant racism.


something like this, maybe