That three-year period of executions, riots, and persecutions of anyone suspected of resisting the French Revolution, which had begun three years earlier with the storming of the Bastille. Some have suggested that our current revolution began on 9/11/2001. Violent, chaotic, political. Fear was instilled in the public. Authoritarian
rule worked tirelessly to reduce resistance. The driving force: the Jacobins was the
forerunner of the democrat party.
First of all, I love how you click on this link and are taken to a cartoony-looking History for Kids page. Awesome!
Then it gets dark, real fast. The New Laws. The Terror. Be Innocent or be put to death. Ratted out by your neighbors:
"People had to be careful of everything they said, what they did, and who they talked to. Sometimes revolutionaries accused people they didn't like or wanted to get rid of without any evidence. All anyone had to do was accuse someone, and they were considered guilty."
OF TREASON! Guillotined!
This is some heavy shit and the parallels are there.
Thanks, Trilby. And a few things not for kids: 10,000 arrested, died in prison without trial, 40,000 guillotined, 300,000 butchered. Accused and beheaded, in order, royalty (Louis XVI and Marie Antooinette) the wealthy, farmers & businessmen, food horders, the clergy, an internal purge. At the hand of Robespierre. Source: "Socialism, the Real History from Plato to the Present," by William J. Federer.
(Amerisearch 2020 -- www,AmericanMinute.com)
That three-year period of executions, riots, and persecutions of anyone suspected of resisting the French Revolution, which had begun three years earlier with the storming of the Bastille. Some have suggested that our current revolution began on 9/11/2001. Violent, chaotic, political. Fear was instilled in the public. Authoritarian rule worked tirelessly to reduce resistance. The driving force: the Jacobins was the forerunner of the democrat party.
First of all, I love how you click on this link and are taken to a cartoony-looking History for Kids page. Awesome!
Then it gets dark, real fast. The New Laws. The Terror. Be Innocent or be put to death. Ratted out by your neighbors:
"People had to be careful of everything they said, what they did, and who they talked to. Sometimes revolutionaries accused people they didn't like or wanted to get rid of without any evidence. All anyone had to do was accuse someone, and they were considered guilty."
OF TREASON! Guillotined!
This is some heavy shit and the parallels are there.
Thanks, Trilby. And a few things not for kids: 10,000 arrested, died in prison without trial, 40,000 guillotined, 300,000 butchered. Accused and beheaded, in order, royalty (Louis XVI and Marie Antooinette) the wealthy, farmers & businessmen, food horders, the clergy, an internal purge. At the hand of Robespierre. Source: "Socialism, the Real History from Plato to the Present," by William J. Federer. (Amerisearch 2020 -- www,AmericanMinute.com)