PeanutGallery wrote:It's the challenge made by King Leonidas who led the 300 Spartans against the advancing Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. While the 300 were pretty much slaughtered to the man they did manage to inflict very serious losses on the Persians and held them until other Greek forces were able to mount a better defence.
I believe Peter has used it to try and issue a challenge to a larger authority (the police or "powers that be"). But I doubt Peter has used it with the full understanding of what actually happened to the 300, they died, they were defiant but ultimately they died.
PoE also apparently doesn't understand the difference between a real General doing what's right and a would-be general picking his battles inappropriately.
The Spartans were a strongly trained combat unit - PoE's got..... well some of them might have training in combat on video games - perhaps the rare one was part of an actual trained army unit of some type.
The Spartans - knowing they would loose to the last man - choose their battleground carefully in order to better control the flow of battle while also knowing their prime objective was to buy time while the much larger force formed.
PoE - well.... I seriously doubt he's buying time while a much larger force forms. While they like to claim "most of society is fed up with governments and banks" I suspect the reality is much more "most of society is fed up with the freeloader movement". As for his selected battlefields - while he might have control in stirring up his little group he won't have much control of anything else.
PoE - a general with absolutely no training or experience of either real leadership or combat strategies/tactics. And what little exp he does get, apparently no learning ability to take advantage of that so he no longer throws his troops into the meat grinder without gain.
