Commentaires sur : Bush en Pompée http://extremecentre.org/2007/09/12/bush-en-pompee/ Contre l'extrême droite et l'extrême gauche, il y a l'extrême centre Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Par : Akanin http://extremecentre.org/2007/09/12/bush-en-pompee/comment-page-1/#comment-145364 Akanin Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:53:38 +0000 http://extremecentre.org/2007/09/12/bush-en-pompee/#comment-145364 César en Dick Cheney : "Hortensius had just about reached his peroration when the figure of Caesar rose from that obscure region at the back of the chamber, close to the door, which had once been occupied by Cicero, and asked Hortensius to give way. The respectful silence in which the great advocate had been heard fractured immediately, and one has to admit that it was brave of Caesar to take him on in such an atmosphere. Caesar stood his ground until at last he could be heard, and then started to speak, in his clear, compelling, remorseless way. There was nothing un-Roman, he said, about seeking to defeat pirates, who were the scum of the sea; what was un-Roman was to will the end of a thing but not the means. If the Republic functioned as perferctly as Hortensius said it did, why had the menace been allowed to grow? And now that it was grown monstrous, how was it to be defeated? He had himself been captured by pirates a few years back on his way to Rhodes, and held to ransom, and when at last he had been released, he had gone back and hunted down every last man of his kidnappers, and carried out the promise he had made to them when he was their prisoner - had seen to it that the scroundrels were crucified! 'That, Hortensius, is the Roman way to deal with piracy - and that is what the lex Gabinia will enable us to do!" On voit que César n'était pas sensible au syndrome de Stockholm ! César en Dick Cheney :
« Hortensius had just about reached his peroration when the figure of Caesar rose from that obscure region at the back of the chamber, close to the door, which had once been occupied by Cicero, and asked Hortensius to give way. The respectful silence in which the great advocate had been heard fractured immediately, and one has to admit that it was brave of Caesar to take him on in such an atmosphere. Caesar stood his ground until at last he could be heard, and then started to speak, in his clear, compelling, remorseless way. There was nothing un-Roman, he said, about seeking to defeat pirates, who were the scum of the sea; what was un-Roman was to will the end of a thing but not the means. If the Republic functioned as perferctly as Hortensius said it did, why had the menace been allowed to grow? And now that it was grown monstrous, how was it to be defeated? He had himself been captured by pirates a few years back on his way to Rhodes, and held to ransom, and when at last he had been released, he had gone back and hunted down every last man of his kidnappers, and carried out the promise he had made to them when he was their prisoner – had seen to it that the scroundrels were crucified! ‘That, Hortensius, is the Roman way to deal with piracy – and that is what the lex Gabinia will enable us to do! »

On voit que César n’était pas sensible au syndrome de Stockholm !

]]> Par : Akanin http://extremecentre.org/2007/09/12/bush-en-pompee/comment-page-1/#comment-145256 Akanin Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:26:21 +0000 http://extremecentre.org/2007/09/12/bush-en-pompee/#comment-145256 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensius" rel="nofollow">Hortensius</a> en Ted Kennedy : "It seemed that Pompey's over-reaching ambition had brought Hortensius back into the arena revitalised, and listening to him one of just how formidable he could be on a big set-piece occasion such as this. He never ranted or stooped to vulgarity, but eloquently restated the old republican: that power must always be divided, hedged around with limitations, and renewed by annual votes, and that while he had nothing personally against Pompey - indeed felt that Pompey was more worthy of supreme command than any other man in the state - it was a dangerous, un-Roman precedent that would be set by the lex Gabinia, and ancient liberties were not to be flung aside merely because of some passing scare about pirates. Cicero was shifting in his place and I could not help but reflect that this was exactly the speech which he would have made if he had been free to speak his mind." Hortensius en Ted Kennedy :
« It seemed that Pompey’s over-reaching ambition had brought Hortensius back into the arena revitalised, and listening to him one of just how formidable he could be on a big set-piece occasion such as this. He never ranted or stooped to vulgarity, but eloquently restated the old republican: that power must always be divided, hedged around with limitations, and renewed by annual votes, and that while he had nothing personally against Pompey – indeed felt that Pompey was more worthy of supreme command than any other man in the state – it was a dangerous, un-Roman precedent that would be set by the lex Gabinia, and ancient liberties were not to be flung aside merely because of some passing scare about pirates. Cicero was shifting in his place and I could not help but reflect that this was exactly the speech which he would have made if he had been free to speak his mind. »

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