Augustus Caesar – Lee Duigon

Newsom Opts for Scare Tactics to Promote Abortion

leeduigon(patty)April 22, 2024

Fleeing the Alabama police who want to give them a pregnancy test–do you believe this? And this guy wants to be president someday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has released an ad featuring two young women trying to “escape” from Alabama… to have abortions (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/parody-gavin-newsom-releases-bizarre-pro-abortion-ad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parody-gavin-newsom-releases-bizarre-pro-abortion-ad).

“All they that hate me love death,” the Bible says (Proverbs 8:36). Has the truth of that teaching ever been more clearly seen than it is now?

Mr. Noisome asserts that Republicans, out of the evil in their hearts, are trying to deny women “travel for reproductive care.” That’s their euphemism for abortion–which is, come to think of it, the exact opposite of reproduction.

Why are Democrats so gung-ho for abortion? Augustus Caesar would have called them “murderers of your own posterity.” It goes along with sterilizing children with puberty-blocking drugs and irreversible surgery. And they are in love with this!

This is an evil period in our country’s history.

Why Study History?

leeduigon(patty)October 29, 2018

No one ever answered this question better than Titus Livius, whom we know as Livy, who wrote his History of Rome during the time of Augustus Caesar. And here is his answer.

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”

Any questions?

‘The Last of the Romans’

leeduigon(patty)July 16, 2018

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That was the nickname given to Stilicho by historian Edward Gibbon.

“The last of the Romans,” and commander of what was left of all the Roman armies in the West, Stilicho was half-Vandal and related by marriage to the imperial family. In 408 A.D. he was judicially murdered as the result of a coup within the imperial household. Two years later, Alaric and the Goths sacked Rome. That was the end of the Roman Empire in the West.

Stilicho won battle after battle with armies he was forced to scrape together at short notice, a small hard core of veterans, and barbarian allies who sometimes didn’t stay allies for long. He was the last Roman general to be awarded a triumph, in 402, after beating back another Gothic invasion of Italy. In 406 a confederation of several barbarian nations burst into Italy. Stilicho raised 30 “legions” totalling some 30,000 men and drove off the invaders. Once upon a time, a Roman legion was 6,000 men, plus allies and auxiliaries–for all practical purposes, ten thousand. For Stilicho, a legion was a single thousand.

But there were no legions available to defend the Rhine frontier. The confederation swarmed across the frozen river and ravaged the provinces of Gaul–which led also to a revolt in Britain.

Gibbon marveled at what Stilicho was able to do, militarily, with so little–a very far cry from the armies Rome placed at the disposal of Scipio or Augustus Caesar.

What ought to be remembered is this: Stilicho’s strength was stretched so thin, his resources of money and manpower so limited, that he could not afford to lose a battle: he could never lose and live to fight another day. His political enemies in Rome lived for that single defeat that would mean the end of Stilicho. When he was unable to stop the invasion of Gaul, they framed him on a trumped-up charge of treason and had him put to death. That was the reward he got for all his victories. That was the one defeat, the one failure, he was not allowed to suffer.

Does that remind you of any leader currently in office, in our own time?