This is extremely important because PRECEDENT is not good.
This is a most excellent point. If the good guys can do it, then the bad guys can do it.
Lucius Sulla set a horrible precedent by marching his army on Rome and killing all his political opponents. This precedent was followed by Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Caesar Augustus, and every other friggen would-be Emperor who wanted power.
But in the time of Julius Casar the barriers of public liberty were become too weak to restrain the audacious efforts of ambitious and desperate men. The veneration for the constitution, usually a powerful check to treasonable designs, had been lately violated by the usurpations of Marius and Sulla. The salutary terrors of religion no longer predominated over the consciences of men. The shame of public censure was extinguished in general depravity. An eminent historian, who lived at that time, informs us, that venality universally prevailed amongst the Romans; and a writer who flourished soon after, observes, that luxury and dissipation had encumbered almost all so much with debt, that they beheld with a degree of complacency the prospect of civil war and confusion. - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it.
This is extremely important because PRECEDENT is not good.
This is a most excellent point. If the good guys can do it, then the bad guys can do it.
Lucius Sulla set a horrible precedent by marching his army on Rome and killing all his political opponents. This precedent was followed by Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Caesar Augustus, and every other friggen would-be Emperor who wanted power.
But in the time of Julius Casar the barriers of public liberty were become too weak to restrain the audacious efforts of ambitious and desperate men. The veneration for the constitution, usually a powerful check to treasonable designs, had been lately violated by the usurpations of Marius and Sulla. The salutary terrors of religion no longer predominated over the consciences of men. The shame of public censure was extinguished in general depravity. An eminent historian, who lived at that time, informs us, that venality universally prevailed amongst the Romans; and a writer who flourished soon after, observes, that luxury and dissipation had encumbered almost all so much with debt, that they beheld with a degree of complacency the prospect of civil war and confusion. - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
This is extremely important because PRECEDENT is not good. This is a most excellent point. If the good guys can do it, then the bad guys can do it. Lucius Sulla set a horrible precedent by marching his army on Rome and killing all his political opponents. This precedent was followed by Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Caesar Augustus, and every other friggen would-be Emperor who wanted power.
But in the time of Julius Casar the barriers of public liberty were become too weak to restrain the audacious efforts of ambitious and desperate men. The veneration for the constitution, usually a powerful check to treasonable designs, had been lately violated by the usurpations of Marius and Sulla. The salutary terrors of religion no longer predominated over the consciences of men. The shame of public censure was extinguished in general depravity. An eminent historian, who lived at that time, informs us, that venality universally prevailed amongst the Romans; and a writer who flourished soon after, observes, that luxury and dissipation had encumbered almost all so much with debt, that they beheld with a degree of complacency the prospect of civil war and confusion. - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
This is extremely important because PRECEDENT is not good.
This is a most excellent point. If the good guys can do it, then the bad guys can do it.
Lucius Sulla set a horrible precedent by marching his army on Rome and killing all his political opponents. This precedent was followed by Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Caesar Augustus, and every other friggen would-be Emperor who wanted power.