Monday, February 25, 2008

A queen appalled...

Senators,
What…are…you…doing?
As I stood listening at the edge of the Senate House today I became incensed. Our great Caesar is dead, and all any of you Caesarians can do is sit their silently while that treacherous dog, Brutus, barks out insults and lies. Brutus speaks of courage! Look who stands by him now! Hypocrites! Sycophants! And not one who took up a dagger and aided in that vicious slaughter! Instead, these men sat back until the job was done for them. Brutus calls you weak and scared, recalling how you fled the Senate House when Caesar’s body was mangled. Remember, and remind Brutus, that you are still here. You were not ones to betray the law of gods and men and brandish weapons in the Senate House. You are alive, and you will not let that horrible deed go unpunished!
Yet, you all say nothing. You let him call you coward. You let him think that he was justified in his actions, and you let him sit in the very place he committed that crime against the gods and the people of Rome! I wanted to scream today. I wanted to scream: “It is not only the people of Rome, but the people of the WORLD who look to you now! What will they think?”
I understand that there are important issues at hand such as who is left to run the state now that Caesar is gone and what should be done with the conspirators, but Caesar’s body lies bloody and unburied. And all you can do is waste time debating nonsense and lugging your useless bodies from one side of the Senate House to the other. You stand there, casting your votes, but you do NOT speak! Would I were able to speak for you! I ask you, stand in my place. Learn what it is not to have a voice! Then maybe you will learn how to use it. I am not trying to dishonor you. I am just looking out for the honor of the dead Caesar. You are strong, intelligent, and able men. Unite on at least this one issue and push forward towards settling the people of Rome and bettering the lives of all within her!

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