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Where is the FBI’s Rubicon?

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Posted By: Moritz55, 8/13/2022 9:42:19 PM

Everyone knows that in January 49 BC Julius Caesar, about to lead part of his army across the Rubicon river, said “Alea iacta est,” “the die is cast.” Except that, according to Plutarch, what he really said was “Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος,” “let the die be cast,” and he did not so much say it as quote it, since the already-proverbial line came from the Greek playwright Menander. Anyway, in bringing an army across the stream that separated cis-Alpine Gaul from Italy proper, Caesar had committed treason. In crossing the Rubicon he had crossed a line, sparking the civil war that engulfed Rome and formalized the end of the Republic

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Italiano 8/13/2022 11:16:32 PM (No. 1247535)
Paywall, so no. Besides, they already crossed it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: texaspast 8/13/2022 11:32:30 PM (No. 1247543)
On the subject of Caesar crossing the Rubicon - I would highly recommend to all a book by Mike Duncan called 'The Storm Before the Storm' - a history of Roman politics in the few decades before Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The similarities to what is going on today is astonishing: everything from mob violence fomented by political parties to assassinations of political rivals, to ballot stuffing to manipulation of the Roman equivalent of our electoral college. It is indeed a fascinating read. As for 'crossing the Rubicon' - although it wasn't the FBI that did it, it was another arm of the Federal Government - I'd point to the armed home invasion to seize Elian Gonzalez.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 8/13/2022 11:49:47 PM (No. 1247546)
When Caesar doesn't care about any Rubicon, there is no end to what the FBI will do, legal or illegal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mifla 8/14/2022 5:44:53 AM (No. 1247613)
Until the people controlling the FBI are removed and replaced with people who follow the rule of law, nothing will change. The question is, are there any members of our government left who follow the rule of law?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 8/14/2022 6:33:30 AM (No. 1247626)
Every federal agency I've ever worked for is a snowball rolling down a mountain. They just get bigger and bigger and go faster and faster. They cant be slowed, stopped or diverted. They just keep growing and getting more dangerous. Their political appointee directors are just figureheads with only the most rudimentary authority. They are led by their massive internal regulations and their ever growing budgets, which must be spent. Shut them down completely and do not replace. Its the only way.
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