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25/10/14

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Originally posted by nickyjames ↑

In light of the 2 recent deaths in Canada and our war with home grown terrorists, and the potential to have "new" Australians plot against us, I thought I would post a famous speech from a roman orator in regard to traitors, many of which we have in our own country. And many of which sympathise for these traitors.

The famous Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero said: ' A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. The traitor moves amongst us, he speaks in accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their arguments. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.'

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The irony:

"Following Julius Caesar's death Cicero became an enemy of Mark Antony in the ensuing power struggle, attacking him in a series of speeches. He was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and consequently killed in 43 BC."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
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