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The significance, importance and effects of martyrs on religious or secular power systems and on revolutionary movements has always been known and exploited by the tyrants of Church and State. Indeed, when the tyrants had no true martyrs they created them. What better example could we find than the alleged holocaust of the "forever persecuted" tribe of "chosen people." As regular readers of FOCUS FOURTEEN have read before, the Roman general on his way to crush a revolt in Palestine nearly 2,000 years ago remarked that it was strange, since Jews wrote the laws of Rome. As Bob Miles used to say, "Thieves have power struggles amongst themselves." In the end, however, the victims are made into martyrs for the greater conspiracy. (en) |
