Posted on 01/28/2009 7:47:31 AM PST by IbJensen
Now we can call him Laff_at_hee!
I'm not sure where the accent goes but his administration is already quite spicey! He already has to Biden his Thyme and maybe alittle cheesey fondue, (OMIGOSH), a cheese joke to boot!
“The answer is the failure of American education, from K-12 to higher ed.”
Absolutely right.
Those guillotined also included Christians in general and Catholics in particular. Priests and religious were executed just for the fact that they were Catholic. During the Reign of Terror, the streets literally ran with blood, as the executions were non-stop throughout the daylight hours. The atheist movement within the Revolution was successful in even wiping out vestiges of Chrisitanity in the calendar, by redoing it with 10-day weeks (so that Sunday could not be kept), different month names, and different day names.
The book “To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794” by William Bush is a vivid illustration of just exactly what went on during the Reign of Terror. Unlike some accounts of the French Revolution which have portrayed it as some kind of noble endeavor, this book utilizes eye-witness accounts and historical facts to show the violent destruction - which was horrific.
“Dialogues des Carmélites,” a French opera by Francis Poulenc is another recounting of the story of the Martyrs of Compiegne.
Obama’s insistance on the destruction of babies in the womb makes him today’s version of Robespierre, and the pro-abortion Democrats are the Committee of Public Safety. Nancy Pelosi’s comment that the economy would be helped by preventing babies from being born is in the same mindset as Robespierre’s statement that “Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country’s most urgent needs.” 5 Feb. 1794
Well, we already have rObespierre.
bttt
It was disgusting that Obama would channel the French Revolution, and nearly remake America into the ASSR or even Jacobin Country. And it is also disgusting that they did not teach the effects of militant atheism in school and how they tried to exterminate us Christians. My own uncle, who is very liberal, went over to the USSR while working under the Carter administration, and witnessed first-hand how some Christians were nearly arrested in the church, with him nearly acting as an unwitting accomplice to those Communists. It was only after seeing them hiding that he essentially said it wasn’t the church he was looking for, and had a newfound appreciation of freedom of religion.
To be fair to Obama, however, Thomas Jefferson actually was involved in the writing of both the Declaration of Independence (as we all know) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (which probably isn’t all that well known), and in fact, it was that as well as his acting as ambassador to France at the time that was the reason Jefferson was not involved in the creation of the Constitution. As a matter of fact, Jefferson was a pretty huge fan of the Jacobins and their excesses, actually defending the Reign of Terror and September Massacres rather tastelessly, even when his fellow founding fathers already were beginning to have disgust for the French Revolution. Jefferson wasn’t exactly one of my most fondest of founding fathers anyway.
Like to see Obama get his turn on “Le Rasoir National”.
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