Durin the Ottoman period, the Muslim Turks, in order to terrorize the Greeks, impaled and roasted alive Athanasios Diakos. But, they gave him a chance: "Will you become a Turk, Diakos? Will you change your faith? Will you pray in the mosque and abandon the church?"
He replied to them: "Go away, you and your faith, may you perish, you renegades! I was born a Greek, and as a Greek I shall die."
According to eyewitness accounts from the time, two Turks lit a fire next to the stable and placed an iron grate and a large copper cauldron filled with oil over it. Then they lifted Diakos, still bound as he was, and made him sit on an old wooden stool. They raised his legs. The Turks began to mock him, asking him various questions. For every negative nod, they drove nails into his feet. Afterwards, they took the boiling oil and first poured it over his bare feet.
When they saw that he did not react, they tore his clothing and began pouring it on his back and chest. He groaned silently in pain, and the soldiers, under orders not to kill him, used needles to burst the blisters that had formed on his skin from the boiling oil. This continued for hours, until the next morning.
Exhausted as he was, they dragged him through the town to execute him. His execution was carried out in public view with the permission of Halil Bey, so that the Greeks would be warned about what would happen to anyone who dared to revolt. Testimonies state that even Diakos’s mother was present at his torture.
After tying him backwards onto a saddle with his legs spread apart, the executioner began pushing the sharp tip of a wooden stake into his groin area and then slowly drove it deeper, going all the way through his body until it emerged near his right ear. The executioner moved carefully, as he had orders not to kill him quickly; with every push of the stake, Diakos’s screams confirmed he was still alive.
Once the executioner had finished his work, the Turks tied the body tightly with the stake so that the skin would not tear, and they propped him up, almost upright, against a tree.
As he was dying, it is said that he uttered these sorrowful verses: "Look at the time Death has chosen to take me, now, when the branches are blossoming and the earth brings forth grass."
Halil Bey gave the order to light a fire beneath him and to turn him slowly, so that he would be roasted alive like an animal. After many hours of torture, the Greek chieftain passed away on April 24, 1821. However, this had the opposite effect from what the Turks had expected.
When the Greeks learned of his story and his martyrdom, they were filled with even greater rage and strength to liberate themselves from the barbarous Muslims and Islam.
Athanasios Diakos is one of the most important heroes in the Greek history.
The more we do for blacks, the more they hate us.
When will whites finally understand this?
This is in Minnesota, where blacks are more petted and coddled than just about anywhere else.
Archbishop Casey told our Catholic men's group, through his rector, that we couldn't pray the Rosary on the Cathedral steps this year — he wanted to stay "neutral" toward the Pride Parade next door. Scripture, the Fathers, and the Catechism say a bishop can't be neutral toward sin.
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Once again, the inhumanity of Portland and blue city Democrats is on display.
A de*d man, clutching fentanyl, while hundreds of people just walk by.
Thank you @kevinvdahlgren for showing the horror of Democrat policies.
Reminder that if you are Anglo-Saxon, your heritage is Catholicism, not Protestantism.
Your ancestors were Catholic for over 1000 years before a few greedy kings and princes took advantage of an extremist religious separatist movement in the 1500’s in order to grab power and steal church property.
They - violently - force converted your ancestors, wiped out a millennium of art & culture, and brainwashed you to believe that this novel religion was your heritage all along and that your ancestors were merely subjected to the one they practiced for centuries.
I bring home a trapped coyote and let it loose in the kitchen.
Hackles up. Teeth bared. Pissing on the floor.
My wife says, "Get it out."
I tell her that is a very unwelcoming and unchristian way to speak about a future house pet.
The children back into the hallway.
I tell them it's a rescue.
I tell them fences are fear.
I tell them cages are barbaric.
I tell them the old rules were cruel.
I tell them it will domesticate in time.
Then I grab my lunchbox and leave them to live with my principles.
When I get home, there is blood on the floor, and the experts who sold me on compassion are already explaining why nobody could have seen this coming.
Anyway, that's Western migration policy.
Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.
In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.
The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.
The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.
It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.
This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.
I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.
This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.
Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.
Here's a Jew (Bret Stephens) speaking at the "State of World Jewry" address, lamenting race-mixing by Jews as a threat to the survival of their people and culture.
Meanwhile in the Western world, every single Jewish-produced movie, TV show, advertisement, social media feed, etc. etc. features a white girl + black guy, or white guy + latina couple.
They know exactly what they're doing.
Meet Chauntyll Allen, a school board member at @SPPS_News.
She wants to turn White Christian cemeteries into dog parks so dogs can p*** on White corpses.
These are the people in charge of your kids’ education.
You can contact her here: [email protected]
@robertsepehr@TheLaurenChen That's a foreign psyop. In 1956 bleks were 10/60 before rap, before the CIA forced them to like crack, before welfare, before single moms
@TheLaurenChen The CIA Financed Hip Hop for Social Engineering, to ‘Corrupt American Youth’ and to Covertly Destabilize and Sow Division in America, Admits Ex-CIA agent
CIA's MK-Ultra Infiltration of Media
https://t.co/aRmHjx0Y6l