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April 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
One of the centurions was knocked to the ground in the brawl and had to be
taken to hospital in an ambulance, as bemused tourists looked on.
“Let us work, we need to eat!” one Roman soldier yelled, in thick
Roman dialect. “We’ve been here for 20 years, leave us alone.”
The city’s officials are now considering a scheme whereby accredited
centurions and legionaries will be given proper permits, allowed to charge a
fixed rate of 10 euros per photograph and be compelled to declare their
takings to the tax man.
Gianni Alemanno, Rome’s mayor, said the city would not be “blackmailed”.
“If they don’t accept the rules then they will have to go,” he
declared.
The latter-day legionaries claim they are street performers who bring a splash
of historic colour to Rome’s most popular tourist attraction.
They insist they make only a modest living, earning around 50 euros on a good
day.
But the authorities say they harass tourists and take home as much as 200
euros a day – none of it declared to the tax man.
Nor are their costumes always authentic – it is not uncommon to see a pair of
trainers peeping out from beneath the cloak of a praetorian guard, while and
one centurion’s helmet plume appeared last week to be made out of the
upturned head of a stiff-bristled broom.
And while the colourful gallery of mime artists, buskers and comedians on the
streets of Rome includes many foreigners, the modern-day Roman soldiers are
fiercely territorial.
They do not allow non-Italians into their ranks – in stark contrast to the
real-life Roman army, which readily absorbed recruits from all the lands it
conquered.
Critics say they are run as a mini-mafia and that many of the costumed
soldiers are ex-prisoners, controlled by half a dozen Rome families.
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