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Tag: Dave Hildenbrand (Lowell)

To Restore Discipline

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Sun Nov 06, 2011 at 04:26:40 PM EST
Tags: Decimation, Randy Richardville (Monroe), Roger Kahn (Saginaw), Dave Hildenbrand (Lowell), Judy Emmons (Sheridan), Mark Jansen (Gaines), liberty vs. statism, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network (all tags)

The noun decimation, as it is currently used, refers to something causing either great destruction or harm, or a drastic or extreme reduction in population numbers. However, the source verb, decimate, originates from the Latin decimare (removal of a tenth), which in the Roman Legions was a common form of punishment meted out upon mutinous or cowardly soldiers. Those selected for punishment would be divided into groups of ten, and the soldier in each group upon whom the lot fell would be summarily executed on the spot. The message to the remaining nine was clear: get your asses back in line, or join him.

I'm not sure if it's mutineers or cowards that we're dealing with here (or maybe just a highly contagious epidemic of either weak upper spine syndrome or cranial-rectal inversion disorder), but no matter how you slice it, some high-velocity shoe polishing seems to be in order.