The Meaning and History of Molon Labe

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Greece, Military Actions Prior to 1900, Spartans, Veterans' Tales

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Veterans’ Tales by Vassar Bushmills

(Reprinted from “Bearing Arms.com”, Mar 23, 2019, Author: Tom Knighton)

If there’s one phrase that’s ubiquitous throughout the firearm community, it may well be the words “Molon Labe.”

The phrase adorns stickers, rifles, and more than a few tattoos among the pro-gun crowd. However, it also seems that a number of people aren’t really familiar with the history of the phrase nor what it represents.

To get to the origins, we have to go a little ways back in history. In particular, back to 480 BC.

The origin of the phrase is intricately tied to the Battle of Thermopylae. There, the Persian king Xerxes wanted to invade Greece. Standing in his way was King Leonidas and 300 Spartans (and a number of Thespians and Thebans, though history often forgets them). Xerxes offered the Greeks their freedom and survival from the onslaught of his army which reportedly numbered in the millions.

When Xerxes ambassador told Leonidas this, the Spartan king is claimed to have answered, “Molon labe.”

The phrase means, “come and take them.”

When all was said and done, Leonidas was dead, as were his 300 Spartans, but tens of thousands of Xerxes troops were also slain. It was said to have been so bad that the Persians started to lose all taste for war[…]

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Buck Sexton: Greece, Russia and Changing Global Balance of Power (01262015) AUDIO

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austerity, Communism, David Gregory, global-economy, Greece, oil dependency, Redistribution of Wealth, US sanctions against Russia

The Buck Sexton Show

Buck covers austerity measures in Greece and its ties to the global economy, the effects of U.S. sanctions against Russia and the game-changing impact of America’s increased oil independence. Also Charles Cooke(National Review) joins to discuss the David Gregory ammo story and tax code simplification.

LINK:
https://soundcloud.com/buck-sexton/global-economic-desperation-12615

OCCUPY WALL STREET: The History Behind the Day of Action Poster? N17

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Greece, New World Order, obama, Obama doctrine, Obama's Civilian Service, Obama's lap dogs, Obama's legacy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Police Officers, Police State, Progressivism, Radical Extremists, Revolution, terrorism, USA

What is the connection between Occupy Wall Street’s Day of Action, November 17, 2011 and November 17, 1973?

Why November 17th?

What is the significance of November 17th?

Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Greek: Επαναστατική Οργάνωση 17 Νοέμβρη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri), (also known as 17N or N17) was a Marxisturban guerrilla organization (characterized as a terrorist group by the Greek state[1] and the United States[2] and the United Kingdom) formed in 1975 and believed to have been disbanded in 2002 after the arrest and trial of a number of its members. The group assassinated 23 people[3] in 103 attacks on U.S., British, Turkish and Greek targets

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/1428979-importance-11-17-communists-behind-ows.html#ixzz1e2wfUVT2   

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In Greece November 17 is day of celebration,  Athens Braces Itself for Protest Remembering Student Uprising:

 

“…November 17th is a day of celebration of the student movement that, in 1973, rose up against the then military junta in Greece. Although the uprising, centered around Athens’ Polytechnic University, was led by various left-leaning and communist student organizations at the time, the movement was broad-based and was instrumental in bringing down the colonels’ dictatorship that ruled the country for seven years.

The students’ struggle and their uprising is a moving tale of resistance against oppression and authoritarianism, and it’s remembered each year with gratitude by much of the Greek population.

People who are now in their late 50s or in their 60s were protagonists in the events leading to the end of dictatorship. And with its fall, began a new era in Greek history known as the “Metapolitefsi”—a composite word meaning “after the regime”, and also identified with the restoration of democracy in the country.

The so-called “Polytechnic generation” has of late been blamed for the country’s problems.

Some of the uprising’s prominent members proceeded to pursue political careers and became symbols of the Metapolitefsi. But in the last two decades, the spirit of the Metapolitefsi lost some of its revolutionary fervor and the Polytechnic generation became identified with a new era of consumerism in Greece, based on a national spending binge that was entirely unsustainable….”

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Every year, the day is marked with demonstrations against both the establishment and the  intervention of foreign nations into Greek politics by the usual suspects, i.e., USA.

Flag of November 17 - Image by Marcus Schmöger, 20 June 2003

And so I ask, how many of the useful idiots who marched yesterday, Wednesday, November 17th, besides the Communist Party, Big Labor, Occupy Wall Street loons, community organizers and Democratic Socialist Party are even aware that they were celebrating a revolution in which Americans are despised that shed the blood of many, murdering 23 people in 103 attacks, some of which were Americans?

Nov. 17 Terrorist Group; Not One Arrest

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References

1. ^ Press release, Greek Police (Greek)

2. ^ Foreign Terrorist Organizations, The National Counterterrorism Center

3. ^http://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/press/november17terrorists.htm, November 17 Terrorist Organization Chronology of Attacks

SOURCE:  WIKIPEDIA

WALL STREET JOURNAL

SUGGESTED READING:  November 17, Revolutionary People’s Struggle, Revolutionary Struggle (Greece, leftists)

Alex Jones: Total Economic Implosion and Bondage by Design Parts 1 – 4

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George Soros, Globalization, Government corruption, Government coverups, Government spending, Government War on Individual Constitutional Rights, Government Waste, Govt Intervention, Govt Regulation, Govt War on Constitution, Greece, healthcare, healthcare rationing, Healthcare Reform, New World Order, Pension Funds, Police State, Power Grab, Progressivism, Rationing, Social Security, socialism, socialized medicine, universal healthcare

Greek Health System Opts for Amputation as Money-Saver

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Greece, healthcare, healthcare rationing, Healthcare Reform, Progressivism, Rationing, socialized medicine, universal healthcare

Coming to a hospital near you America, all in the name of reform.

The Daily Caller

“This Saturday, one of Greece’s most respected newspapers, To Vima, reported that the nation’s largest government health insurance provider would no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients.  Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider.

The new policy was announced in a letter to the Pan-Hellenic Federation of People with Diabetes. The Federation disputes the science behind the decision of the Benefits Division. In a statement, the group argues that the decision is contrary to evidence as presented in the international scientific literature.

Greece’s National Healthcare System was created in the early 1980s, during the tenure of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Papandreou, an academic, won election under the slogan, Αλλαγή, which is the Greek word for Change.”

Greece Today – USA Tomorrow – Under Obama

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Employment, Government corruption, Government spending, Government Waste, Greece, Labor unions, Lay offs, obama, UNEMPLOYMENT, Unions, USA

KEYWORD:  UNSUSTAINABLE

If you don’t think it can happen or will happen, think again.  We are already walking that path.

CANADA FREE PRESS

“As Rasmussen reports – ‘New Jersey and California are just two of the states that are wrestling with high numbers of well-compensated unionized public employees as they try to reduce growing budget deficits.  But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that Americans are generally favorable toward these unions…’

Dow Jones Newswire reports – ‘Greek Police Clash With Protesters As March Turns Violent – police have fired tear gas and stun grenades as groups of angry youths rampaged through the city center smashing shop windows, overturning garbage bins, and setting fire to at least two businesses.’

The Greek protests are led by government employee labor unions. In the states, we know SEIU (Service Employees International Union) under the AFL-CIO. And as the New York Times reported back in January, most U.S. union members now work for the government.

‘The clashes come as tens of thousands of protesters gathered to protest the government’s recently announced austerity measures in one of the largest protests in recent years, and coinciding with a nationwide general strike that has paralyzed the country.’

Overtaxed and still over spent, Greece’s public sector labor unions are revolting against government cutbacks. Obama and SEIU have the good ole USA poised to follow that utopian trail into national bankruptcy. In both countries, the majority of union employees now hold taxpayer funded government jobs, the only kind of jobs that government can create.

The labor union protests in the streets of bankrupt Greece are in opposition to forced cutbacks in government spending and related services, all necessary to securing additional bailout funds from the EU and IMF in excess of $100 billion to keep Greece from sinking into complete anarchy.

Protesters who have already bled the nation dry of resources in their endless demand for socialist government handouts, are angry over the fact that it is government jobs, protected by public employee labor unions and paid for by Greek taxpayers, that must be cut in order to stop the excessive deficit spending that left Greece the first of many nations to collapse under the weight of socialized economics.

California and New Jersey are the first to follow in the economic-suicide footsteps of Greece and if it weren’t for ongoing multiple federal bailouts of these two states, all at U.S. taxpayer expense, streets in the U.S. would look just like the streets of Athens.

To no surprise, states with the most labor union influence are first to belly up in America

To no surprise, states with the most labor union influence are first to belly up in America. So-called ‘right to work’ states (aka, states where workers can reject labor unions) seem to be faring much better, even in the economic downturn….”

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