daisypusher wrote: Interesting observations SG. The creation of our nation via colonialism, also describes what is happening in France. And it seem those who do not learn from history will repeat it.
AGREED, I've been posting that for a long time, and yet folks are still a sleep, sheep, as President Nero, fiddles the world burns!
And since, some as more concern with dancing with the moron has beens, or products of the unionize public school system.
Here's some help...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero
"Over the course of his reign, Nero often made rulings that pleased the lower class.
Nero was criticized as being obsessed with being popular.[57]"
"The Great Fire of Rome erupted on the night of 18 July to 19 July, AD 64. The fire started at the southeastern end of the Circus Maximus in shops selling flammable goods.[72]
"The extent of the fire is uncertain. According to Tacitus, who was nine at the time of the fire, it spread quickly and burned for over five days.[82] It completely destroyed three of fourteen Roman districts and severely damaged seven.[82] The only other historian who lived through the period and mentioned the fire is Pliny the Elder, who wrote about it in passing.[83] Other historians who lived through the period (including Josephus, Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, and Epictetus) make no mention of it."
It is uncertain who or what actually caused the fire — whether accident or arson.[72] Suetonius and Cassius Dio favor Nero as the arsonist, so he could build a palatial complex.
Tacitus mentions that Christians confessed to the crime, but it is not known whether these confessions were induced by torture.[84] However, fires started accidentally were not uncommon in ancient Rome.[85] In fact, Rome suffered another large fire in 69[86] and in 80.[87]
It was said by Suetonius and Cassius Dio that Nero sang the "Sack of Ilium" in stage costume while the city burned.[88] Popular legend claims that Nero played the fiddle at the time of the fire, an anachronism based merely on the concept of the lyre, a stringed instrument associated with Nero and his performances. (There were no fiddles in 1st-century Rome.) Tacitus's account, however, has Nero in Antium at the time of the fire.[89]
Tacitus also said that Nero playing his lyre and singing while the city burned was only rumor.[89]"
(*) Wait a minute, we're taught, told that the Christians did ALL the KILLING & Torturing though out HISTORY, guess some have forgotten, or weren't taught history, there's that pesky history thing again, we'll gotta go work from folks that are to lazy to... Later...
