{"id":76041,"date":"2019-12-22T17:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T22:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=76041"},"modified":"2019-12-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:00:58","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-december-20th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=76041","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, December 20th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, December 20th, 2019…but before we begin, as some of you know, we’ve recently completed\u00a0<\/strong>Simon Schama’s brilliant\u00a0Citizens, A Chronicle of the French Revolution<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While we certainly learned the general history of the French Revolution during our decades of schooling and scholarship, it was only while we read Schama’s recounting of the Reign of Terror, in which the author describes how…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Henceforth, anyone denounced for “Slandering patriotism,” “seeking to inspire discouragement,” “spreading false new” or even “depraving morals, corrupting the public conscience and impairing the purity and energy of the revolutionary government” could be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal. That court could issue only one of two sentences: acquittal or death.<\/span> To expedite the march of revolutionary justice, no witnesses would be allowed to be called nor could the accused have a defense counsel. Were not the jurymen, after all, good citizens, capable of coming to a fair and unbiased verdict on their own judgment?<\/span><\/span>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

…we came to understand this was the first atheist-inspired insurrection<\/em><\/span> which presaged the Communist tyrannies to come<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the parallels between the French “then”, and Antifa “now”, are striking:<\/strong><\/p>\n