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wasoxygen · 3660 days ago · link · · parent · post: Libertarian Police Department: "I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser..."
This was fantastic; thanks for sharing it. You reminded me to post a slightly less farcical item on the topic that I had been sitting on. Note the reference to Lisowski.In 1604, during the early stages of the Polish-Swedish War, the Sejm of Commonwealth failed to gather money to pay its soldiers fighting in Livonia against the Swedes. Aleksander Józef Lisowski became one of the leaders of the resulting konfederacja - a mutinied part of the army, that decided to gather their wages by pillaging local civilians, not caring whether they pledged allegiance to Poland or Sweden.