"...On this principle, the Terror demonized its political opponents, imprisoned suspected enemies 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 hate freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to “Islamofascism.”
A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled France during la Terreur."
So by the very definition of the "Terreur" term of those demonizing their political opponents that would make the extreme-leftist Democrats and the media elites terrorists as they have been demonizing Bush on every turn.
But we can hardly call them terrorists, now can we, as they are far from it. They may be idiots, but they're not terrorists. Because like many other words in this fluid language, terrorist no longer means one who politically demonizes ones opponent. Instead terrorist means one who inflicts terror on another, and THAT definition FITS THE ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS.
How the U of Montreal can teach President Bush's actions equate to Robespierre is beyond comprehension.
"What we learn from the study of the Great [French] Revolution is that it was the source of all the present communist, anarchist and socialist conceptions." Prince Petr Kropotkin Russian naturalist, author and soldier writing in 1909 on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution
The French Revolution was the overture to our "Age of the Gs"-guillotines, gallows, the Gestapo, gas chambers, gulags. The guillotine marks the first step toward a mechanical/technological mass extermination, toward genocide. National Review | Date: 7/14/1989 | Author: Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von
The French Revolution Historian Arnold Toynbee wrote of statist cult in Revolutionary France: "In the Revolution a sinister ancient religion which had been dormant suddenly re-erupted with elemental violence. This revenant was the fanatical worship of collective human power. The Terror was only the first of the mass-crimes that have been committed ... in this evil religion's name."
This exact same post showed up in Point-CounterPoint too. Apparently the author of this thread didn't like the fact that they got slammed in General Discussion so he/she started the thread in a different section.
