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allegiance, admiration and agenda is more than probable that they are to be associated to this kind of
doctrine and the principles of Rome.
You would hardly expect to see a Muslim group, party or countries display such a symbol as part of
their insignia or incorporated within the architecture of their government buildings etc.
It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic and particularly by those who see
themselves as ―modern-day‖ successors to the old republic and/or its ideals. ―Italian Fascism‖ derives its
name from the fasces and arguably used this symbolism the most in the 20th century. Mosley‘s British
Union of Fascists also used it in the 1930‘s. However, unlike [for example] the Swastika, which was full
in your face and emblazoned on the Nazi‘s flag, the fasces are a widespread and long-established symbol
in the West, which has avoided the same kind of stigma associated to much of the symbolism to fascism,
so much so, that many authorities continue to display them to this very day and including the federal
government of the United States. [9][10]
The fasces were the prominent symbol of Mussolini‘s Fascist Party, and the movement was named the
axe and rods. Fasces are included in the national emblem of the French Republic. The fasces lictoriae
[bundles of the lictors.] symbolised power and authority [imperium] in ancient Rome. A corps of
apparitores [subordinate officials] called lictors each carried fasces as a sort of staff of office before a
magistrate, in a number corresponding to his rank, in public ceremonies and inspections. Bearers of fasces
preceded consuls and dictators. During triumphs [public celebrations held in Rome after a military
conquest] heroic soldiers, those who had suffered injury in battle, carried fasces in procession.
Believed to date from Etruscan times, the symbolism of the fasces at one level suggested strength
through unity. The bundle of rods bound together symbolises the strength which a single rod lacks. The
axe symbolised the state‘s power and authority. The ribbons binding the rods together symbolised the
state‘s obligation to exercise restraint in the exercising of that power. The highest magistrates would have
their lictors [court clerks] unbind the fasces they were carrying as a warning if approaching the limits of
restraint.
Traditionally, fasces carried within the Pomerium - the limits of the sacred inner city of Rome - had
their axe blades removed. This signified that under normal political circumstances, the imperium-bearing
magistrates did not have the judicial power of life and death; within the city, that power rested with the
people through the assemblies. In the Oval Office of the White House in the USA, above the door leading
to the exterior walkway, and above the corresponding door on the opposite wall which leads to the
President‘s private office, the fasces depicted there have no axes.
However, during times of emergencies when the Roman Republic declared a dictatorship [dictatura],
lictors attending to the dictator kept the axe-blades even inside the Pomerium - a sign that the dictator had
the ultimate power in his own hands, so it is interesting to note that the fasces appears on either side of the
American Flag behind the rostrum in the United States House of Representatives which consists of thirteen
ebony rods bound together in the same fashion as the fasces with the axe-blades in place, [so technically
the USA is still in a state of emergency and will remain so until the capstone [the NWO] of the pyramid
has finally been put into place] and that the Mace of this same house is designed to resemble fasces and
topped by a silver eagle on a globe.
The following groups, organisations or places all involve the adoption of the fasces as a visual image or
icon, and I depict only a few that can be found within the USA. Again remember you wouldn‘t find a
symbol of Sickle and Star connected to any of the following groups I‘ve listed, as if you did, you would
not be mistaken presuming there surely must be some kind significance to communism as the symbol
is/was known as The Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union. - The grand seal of Harvard University inside
Memorial Church is flanked by two inward pointing fasces. The seal is located directly below the 368 foot
steeple and the Great Seal of the United States inside the Memorial Room.
The National Guard uses the fasces on the seal of the National Guard Bureau, and it appears in the
insignia of Regular Army officers assigned to National Guard liaison and in the insignia and unit symbols
of National Guard units themselves. For instance, the regimental crest of the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment
of the New York National Guard consisted of a gold fasces set on a blue background. The reverse of the
United States Mercury dime [minted from 1916 to 1945] bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.
The official seal of the United States Senate has as one component a pair of crossed fasces. Fasces ring
the base of the Statue of Freedom atop the United States Capitol building. A frieze on the facade of the
United States Supreme Court building depicts the figure of a Roman centurion holding fasces, to represent
―order‖. The main entrance hallways in the Wisconsin State Capitol have lamps which are decorated with
stone fasces motifs. At the Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln‘s seat of state bears the fasces, without axes, on the