Fasces

"[Fasces:] from the Latin word fascis, meaning" bundle, "symbolize summary power and jurisdiction … The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of white birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe (or sometimes two) amongst the rods, with the blade (s) on the side, projecting from the bundle.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

“Our usually quiet city of Rome was thrown into a state of wild excitement, yesterday, by the occurrence of one of those bloody affrays which sicken the heart and fill the soul with fear, while they inspire all thinking men with forebodings for the future of a city where human life is held so cheaply, and the gravest laws are so openly set at defiance,” the Fasces reporter intones.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

“Our usually quiet city of Rome was thrown into a state of wild excitement, yesterday, by the occurrence of one of those bloody affrays which sicken the heart and fill the soul with fear, while they inspire all thinking men with forebodings for the future of a city where human life is held so cheaply, and the gravest laws are so openly set at defiance,” the Fasces reporter intones.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Fasces by James Brett on Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at 9: 31: 59 PM

Capitalism, Fascism, and Socialism 2009

Meanwhile we have as yet to be told or to work out what it is that Macavity's 'Regional' Gauleiters are going to be getting up to: whilst they remain (being paid big fat wadges of taxpayer's money, no doubt) the fear remains that they are the Harbingers, the Fasces Bearers for Emperor José The First.

Archive 2007-07-15 2007

Meanwhile we have as yet to be told or to work out what it is that Macavity's 'Regional' Gauleiters are going to be getting up to: whilst they remain (being paid big fat wadges of taxpayer's money, no doubt) the fear remains that they are the Harbingers, the Fasces Bearers for Emperor José The First.

Tub O'Lard's Legacy Melts Away 2007

Perhaps the greatest success of GK's Weekly was the exposure of the Mond Turner plan to govern Great Britain by a Fasces of bankers, industrialists and TU bosses, and reduce Parliament to a committee which receives reports.

A History of Distributism 2008

Both Romans and some Herodian officials were Practicing Fascism, before the term was defined and coined in modern times, after the then present Roman Battle Ax-the Fasces-the many composited, slender straight-cut rods of wood.

Jesus Death, Bushites, Neo-Cons, And Early Fascism, And How Everything Was/is Always About The Money 2007

Latin was never my cup of tea but I do know the word Fasces.

Nuff Respec' Garry 2006

Latin was never my cup of tea but I do know the word Fasces.

Archive 2006-01-01 Garry 2006