Bush's dangerous liaisons: PARALLELS WITH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Angie Carlson
`Liberty, Equality, Fraternity---or Death,' was the full slogan of the French Revolution---seldom in our time is the slogan repeated in its entirety. Do we wonder why? We should know that the men of the exulted secret clubs of France and the U.S. work closely together.
The Reign of Terror, the Russian Revolution and the social upheavals of our day are the results. `French intellectuals, middle and upper class, had grown ashamed of their country, history and institutions,' declare historians of the French Revolution. So too have the intellectuals in more recent times, (quite clearly from the period of Woodrow Wilson on), grown just as ashamed of their country, institutions and traditions. Professor of History and mentor to former President Bill Clinton, Carrol Quigley, presents this evidence dispassionately, in his magnum opus, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in our Times. Quigley was not opposed to the plan, but felt it a tragedy for the public to be kept in the dark and a hopeful course of events to follow, should they be en-lightened. Thus the 1,310-page book with its fitting title. He had access to a great number of papers of the ruling elite who were his associates, or at least to whom some he was closely associated. He was convicted to share them at great cost of the book's banning for some time.
So ashamed are the present day's change agents at their nation and history, that all sorts of newfangled new world schemes have been cooked up over the several decades--mainly in the hallowed halls of academia, in think tanks and secret defense meetings. They followed the way of their Jacobin predecessors, the new world revolutionaries who plotted their nation's utopian new order in the late 16th century: by meeting at various clubs with idealistic sounding names: The Friends of the Equal and The Society of the Friends of Man (very similar to Masonic hall names) and in some progressive churches. The latter from which it is said they adopted the name: the Jacobins, after an order of Friars of the same title. In our day likewise, a profusion of plans have been implemented quietly but no longer so secretly----to dismantle the nation state to form a new world order of nations in utopian harmonious cohesion. `Liber-ty, Equality, Fraternity---or Death.' Most people don't know the difference. Why should they... since they never knew or experienced the ways of the re-public. Thus though the plans are largely out in the open, people are not cur-ious to know. No need thus for secrecy.
Liberty in France had to be equated with equality, or else. In the United States today, as disparity between income groups become great, the intel-lectuals of the now imbedded and sanctioned politically correct dogma, preach their offshoot of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity--or Death, regardless of the con-tradictions with reality. Before the punishment of "Death" figures in the e-quation, first must come what we now have in the legion of hate crime/ thought laws, in their many deceptive forms, with accompanying detention camps we're advised that are built by Homeland Security to house the tens of thousands of "illegal immigrants" who will flood our nation. A Homeland Sec-urity high tech surveillance police state must stand "to protect us against ter-rorists," and that is in its advancing stage. These laws grow in number and several are now well established in law, like the over 1,000-page Patriot Act, with its twisted bureaucratic, unreadable codes and punishments, with a title couched in patriotic sounding abbreviations. These similar preparatory events occurred first before the Reign of Terror in France. Resisters and "those who looked like resisters", were placed in France's version of detention centers. Horrible garrisons of raw cruelty, like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, with no right to due course of law or to even challenge their detention and guilt before conviction or years of detention without trial. People in France grew used to unlawfulness by governing bodies.They have in the U.S. also and that's before matters become much worse in the U.S. like after a nuclear blast or pandemic.
"A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled France during la Terreur."
Why can't the people recognize who the genuine terrorists are? So strong is the seduction to absorb propaganda as truth and so with minds so bent by psychological warfare, most people can not see or bring themselves to admit the real evil right in the midst of their gov-erning bodies. That, in my opinion, is the great hindrance to the truth.
So, with tacit approval, too many among the American populace generally by media initiated reflex, now deem anyone they don't approve of as a terrorist or at least a bad person to be watched--because government and its media ten-tacles say so. Any resister to THE program of change by fiat is deemed a ter-rorist--also variously branded as unlawful combatants or criminals or the en-emy or a person of interest. The freedom fighters at the battle of Lexington were likewise branded "terrorists." What proportion of the population will see IN TIME this vicious propaganda which engenders hate and blame before the fact...which means nothing more in almost all cases than the jargon of POL-ITICAL EXPEDIENCY. American and NATO troops fire on Afghan and Iraqi or Somali villages and kill people. They then self righteously proclaim they killed "criminals or terrorists or enemies of the people and of course most are Isla-mofascists or their facilitators."
But the terror has presided close to home too and for a considerable duration with wide lapses for good measure, so people forget. It will increase until the people are thoroughly conditioned to accept it, as they were in revolutionary France.
Here are but a few notable cases of U.S. conditioning: the cold blooded mas-sacres by government forces of the several dozen at Waco, including 19 chil-dren and of Gordon Kahl, the tax protester who never hurt anyone. Then Ran-dy Weaver's wife, [13-year old] son and friend, living in the countryside of Ru-by Ridge, Idaho, to themselves, were massacred by a government sharpshoot-er in a sting operation gone awry. The mother as she was cradling her infant daughter at the doorstep was shot to death for no real reason whatsoever! Members in the first group were dehumanized with the branding of "child mo-lester, weirdos, extremists, a cult"--for weeks on end, the propaganda ma-chine all around the nation at its most shrill, pounded out the long engineered tactics of dehumanization and denigration. That terror was justified largely in the minds of the public and forgotten quite quickly. The others were branded extremists and thoroughly dehumanized. They too are forgotten. There are many more guinea pigs. This sort of "example" to the nation of cold blooded punishments took place before the Reign of Terror in France--a good learning platform of tyrants today.
In 1996, an intensive study of the French Revolution was undertaken by yours truly. The reason? The many controversial events for several decades taking place in the U.S., and a plethora of Draconian laws imposed arbitrarily, without a reading in the public domain by the citizenry or with their learned approval, along with many disturbing signs indicating the future course of the nation. These phenomena triggered the memory of the history lessons on the French Revolution in high school--way back in the late fifties. So a pilgrimage into his-tory became an urgency to see just how closely or how far still we were from the climactic events that sparked one of the most poisonous periods in all history.
First, an agitating period via massive propaganda pamphleteering in numerous places around Paris and other cities occurred. Many meetings of intellectuals took place scheming the overthrow of the monarch, some time before 1789, which led to the horrific Reign of Terror with arbitrary mass killings, most of which involved calling up the citizenry by name to be seized and to be carried by horse and carriage for their turn at the guillotine. The greater majority so barbarically killed were guilty of nothing. They "looked" like troublemakers. That alone put a price on their heads. Traditions were forced away and the hatred of them was enforced by law. Even the names of calendar days and years were changed to reflect pagan traditions of festivities, in insult to the Church. Towards the end of the Reign of Terror, upon the death of the "voice of virtue" by guillotine, and almost to a man every member of the ruling as-sembly, the subsequent years brought forty more years of revolutions.
One of the most striking parallels of that period with our day, was the un-questioned (by all offices and the media at large) and incredibly outrageous claims based on blatant lies, for unilateral war and world hegemonic control after 9/11, and why and how we must accept the changes "for our own good."
I studied intensely some 15 books written as far back as 150 years and to the near present. These were authored by various historians of quite varied back-grounds and nationalities. The research included many hours studying the historic revolutionary propaganda pamphlets in French, that promised all things wonderful accompanied with great security, and the egregious denigrat-ion of all things traditional--above all, the banning of mono-theocratic faith systems. As imperfect as the Church Institution was, (that's an understate-ment) it served as a haven for many homeless and schools for many more, to crawl out of grinding poverty. The churches were turned into pagan "temples of reason," where the most outlandish raw acts of promiscuity occurred; where witchcraft was promoted. Today, though not banned, they might as well be in effect: it is clear that much of the church is largely paganized and sold out to false gospels and political pressure groups and deeply infested with the occult. The tens of millions of Christian Zionists, preaching the gospel of lies and myths and hate and prejudice and closely linked to the highest office via their sinister leaders. Much of the church long ago acquiesced to gov-ernment by dint of their 501-3C tax exemption. They bowed to Caesar for monetary profit. Thus the mission of the church at large is unfulfilled and barren. The thundering voice of dissent and protest against the evil of govern-ment oppression and injustice, the marginalization of large groups and with worse to come, is sickeningly absent.
The many parallels with the more sophisticated aspects of the U.S. propagan- da machine, are astonishing. Within the French revolutionary propaganda pamphlets were stamped the nuances of cunning and agitative uprising...the strong subtextual messages which held the trigger in most cases for the ter-ror to come. France was deemed to be the great power of the time, the rich-est and most militarily powerful. It had a population of about 25 million with a growing middle class, with education becoming more dispersed among the people. The encyclopaedists were busy documenting "all there was to docu-ment." France, like the USA today, thought they knew it all. They were filled with hubris and blinded by it. American Political Scientist and writer, Francis Fukuyama wrote "The end of History" after the Soviet Union fell. A top mem-ber of the CFR and of other elitist organizations, he was the chosen voice that declared for all of them that they had won and the world was safe for democ-racy as they dictated it, from then on. Their arrogance and hubris knew no bounds and it was a reflection of the terrible trouble we today experience. They too are wholly misguided by their hubris.
France was at that fateful time a semi-feudal territory as opposed to the deep feudalism in which the rest of Europe wallowed . France aimed to impose a new world order as far as it could, by war: and it waged war against neighbor-ing nations and abroad. This warmongering pride filled nation caused the basis for great consternation and hatred towards it by all other nations. Hello? The most recent Pew Poll released in the last couple of weeks, showed the preponderance of this hate and fear for the U.S. by most of the world.
Thomas Jefferson, ambassador to France at that revolutionary period, made some shocking statements in defense of the revolution---I must not digress. Except to say perhaps his young age and naivete may forgive him. The jury is still out say some historians. Tom Paine was a big supporter of that revolution and aimed to import it into Britain--the latter who chased him right out of the nation post haste, much to their salvation. The great Sir Edmund Burke made a much better choice with his famous writings to convince restive minds to a-void life shattering revolution in England. Paine barely made it out with his life--to later come to the U.S. where he made his mark. But I must not digress!
Bit by bit, over the period of several administrations, especially since WWI, we have reached an historical point: the many abuses against the Republic of the United States of America, in the interests of a globalized new system of con-duct and rule, have increased exponentially--in that same revolutionary spirit of long yesteryear.
As the nation prospered, the American middle class grew ever larger and rich-er. Their state of sleep walking into their growing well being blinded them to their own complacency and obsessive addiction to a fantasy about prosperity without responsibility and vigilance. Without their oversight, the new proto-cols of a new world order became established. The protocols are accepted without a bullet fired or a drop of blood shed. We are at an alarming junc-ture---as one considers the ever growing sanctioned and "legalized" abuses against civil liberties, the grotesque injustice of ever newer laws which have trampled underfoot constitutional law in just about all its forms--not to mention the staggering abuses against interna-tional law, even against the abominable and barbaric practice of to-rture and arbitrary kidnapping. And all this, exactly as the French Revo-lutionary pamphlets shrieked: "in the name of liberty, prosperity, and their protection against terrorists and enemies of all stripes." A juggernaut indeed!
Robespierre, the leader of the Jacobin revolutionaries, was reverently dubbed the "voice of virtue," hailed and elevated by the young men of the revolution-ary Assembly as Leader of the Rights of Man, their new Charter. In similar fa-shion, Bush was elevated by the Vulcans, (after Vulcan the Greek god of Steel) as Condoleeza Rice highhandedly called her pre-election team, those vicious misfit neo-CONS. Bush, the pontificating "decider" has in so many words and in the same context, been led by the secretly implemented neo Jacobin Office of Information in the Dept of Defense (disbanded we're told). So too was this most dangerous and naive President influenced and led by the huge propaganda machine comically called an independent media, as Robes-pierre was by the pamphlets distributed by their millions all over France.
It's worth repeating the striking parallel with how similarly this "media" was fired up by the same ghosts of the French Revolutionary Assembly: the neo-Jacobins of our day (the neo-CONS), who honored the confused and immature Bush as the defender of our security and protector of our liberties. What hum-bug! But millions of talk radio "conservatives" seem to believe it. They will believe it until the treason and malfeasance will have made a finished shell of the republic, bankrupted the nation completely and their own pocket books, and ravaged many more innocent around the world, creating real enemies with a genuine cause.
Before Bush of course, in this manner were several presiding former presi-dents who were led to gradually dismantle the young republic. The chain of continuation was handed to Bush to bring it to a close finish, but not quite. That will be left up to the next selected president and his own already chosen Jacobin assistants. Only a relatively few, although the numbers fortunately grow, see the soft terror form now in the nation prevailing. The absence of Dr. Guillotines head cutting contraption and the gutters literally filling and clogged with blood, is left up to the dusty pages of history--supposedly never to happen again in its modern form?
The modern sewer system was in fact a French invention of necessity, dating from that deadly awful period--because the rivers of blood fully clogged the old gutters, a more efficient system had to be invented.
I have barely touched the parallels and those I have are maybe not put con-vincingly enough, in which case I would urge a reading of the Revolution to see some startling parallels.
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Though it has been a topic of much attention in recent years, the origin of the term "terrorist" has gone largely unnoticed by politicians and pundits alike. The word was an invention of the French Revolution, and it referred not to those who hated freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to "Isla-mofascism."
A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled France during la Terreur.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/28/opinion/edfurstenberg.php
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Bush's dangerous liaisons
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Much as George W. Bush's presidency was ineluctably shaped by Sept. 11, 2001, so the out-break of the French Revolution was symbolized by the events of one fateful day, July 14, 1789. And though 18th-century
Soon after the storming of the Bastille, pro-Revolutionary elements came together to form an association that would become known as the Jacobin Club, an umbrella group of politicians, journalists and citizens dedicated to advancing the principles of the Revolution.
The Jacobins shared a defining ideological feature. They divided the world between pro- and anti-Revolutionaries - the defenders of liberty versus its enemies. The French Revolution, as they understood it, was the great event that would determine whether liberty was to prevail on the planet or whether the world would fall back into tyranny and despotism.
The stakes could not be higher, and on these matters there could be no nuance or hesitation. One was either for the Revolution or for tyranny.
By 1792,
Brissot understood the war as preventive - "une guerre offensive," he called it - to defeat the despotic powers of
Pro-war Jacobins believed theirs was a mission not for a single nation or even for a single continent. It was, in Brissot's words, "a crusade for universal liberty."
Brissot's opponents were skeptical. "No one likes armed missionaries," declared Robespierre, with words as apt then as they remain today. Not long after the invasion of
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Confronted by a monarchical Europe united in opposition to revolutionary
Among the Jacobins' greatest triumphs was their ability to appropriate the rheto
Even the Jacobins' dress distinguished "true patriots": those who wore badges of patriotism like the liberty cap on their heads, or the cocarde t
Insisting that their partisan views were identical to the national will, believing that only they could save
To defend the nation from its enemies, Jacobins expanded the government's police powers at the expense of civil liberties, endowing the state with the power to detain, interrogate and im-prison suspects without due process. Policies like the mass warrantless searches undertaken in 1792 - "domicilary visits," they were called - were justified, according to Georges Danton, the Jacobin leader, "when the homeland is in danger."
Robespierre - now firmly committed to the most militant brand of Jacobinism - condemned the "treacherous insinuations" cast by those who questioned "the excessive severity of measures prescribed by the public interest." He warned his political opponents, "This severity is alarm-ing only for the conspirators, only for the enemies of liberty." Such measures, then as now, were undertaken to protect the nation - indeed, to protect liberty itself.
If the French Terror had a slogan, it was that attributed to the great orator Louis de Saint-Just: "No liberty for the enemies of liberty." Saint-Just's pithy phrase (like Bush's variant, "We must not let foreign enemies use the forums of liberty to destroy liberty itself") could serve as the very antithesis of the Western liberal tradition.
On this principle, the Terror demonized its political opponents, imprisoned suspected enem-ies without trial and eventually sent thousands to the guillotine. All of these actions emerged from the Jacobin worldview that the enemies of liberty deserved no rights.
Though it has been a topic of much attention in recent years, the origin of the term "terrorist" has gone largely unnoticed by politicians and pundits alike. The word was an invention of the French Revolution, and it referred not to those who hated freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to "Islamofascism."
A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled
Francois Furstenberg, a professor of history at the University of Montreal, is the author of "In the Name of the Father: