Evy, Davie, Paul Singer, Warren, Hank the bank, Georgie S. types take note. In Byzantium competent rulers took care of their corrupt oligarchs by arresting, imprisoning them, confiscating their stolen wealth and in some cases castrating them. A lesson to every American - the oligarchs eventually took did over and stole all the money refusing to pay for the military and other key functions of government thereby contributing to Byzantiums fall to the Turks. When Mehmed came to power these cowarldy thugs aka plutocrats - oligarchs attempted to flatter and bribe him ... he pointed out their failings and then had them tortured and killed. Interesting, frank documentary.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:45:15 +0000