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Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (French: Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme) is a book by Abbé Augustin Barruel, a French Jesuit priest. It was written and published in French in 1797-98, and translated into English in 1799. In the book, Barruel claims that the French Revolution was the result of a deliberate conspiracy or plot to overthrow the throne, altar and aristocratic society in Europe. The plot was allegedly hatched by a coalition of philosophes, Freemasons. The conspirators created a system that was inherited by the Jacobins who operated it to its greatest potential. The Memoirs purports...

LET US PREYTHE HORROR IN THE CHURCH By: Alan StangI am not a Roman Catholic, but in the historic enclave were I was raised, pretty much the only people we knew of were Catholics and Jews. Needless to say, everyone was a Democrat and believed that Franklin Roosevelt had been sent there by God, or maybe that he was God Himself. Once in a while, an inmate who got out would return with preposterous tales of other people called "Protestants" and "Republicans." Of course, no one paid any attention. After all, how dumb can you get?So, I set these...