"Always let your conscience guide you and you will never fail or fall".
Cicero's injudicious maxim said,"salus populi suprema lex esto" (De Legibus, III, 3.8) -"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law!"
Of course, Bush-Cheney, et al, most probably never read any of the works of the greatest orator in Roman history(and probably think the only Cicero that ever existed was Maximus Decimus Meridius's personal assistant in Gladiator), although they followed his maxim almost verbatim in the Bush Doctrine of preemptive, perpetual war, torture "to save American lives" mantra, and other acts of tyranny that would probably make the real "little boots" Caligula blush green with envy.
This diary is a culmination of a few days worth of work. My labor of love and devoted service. Call it what you desire and do with it what you must. Just let your conscience be your guide. Mine is telling me I've been up all night and I better go to bed and get some sleep. But I shall return(I think). It's a long one, so I divided it into parts...
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