[erelde]

> I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship

Well, they weren't exactly choirboys from what I've heard.

(I understand what you meant, but that quote out of context is just great)

[jfoutz]

No, you're right. I kept thinking of the 20th century. They couldn't aspire to the scale of say, Stalin. But the whole thing with the crosses, yeah. yeah they're pretty brutal.