Could it simply be a coincidence that all of these things happened on July 27?On this day in 1794 Robespierre is arrested. The Reign of Terror* is coming to an end. That evening he is shot in the jaw and there are reports that the wound is self-inflicted--a failed attempt at suicide. In any case he is guillotined the next day. Robespierre is proof that zealots on the left can be every bit as horrifying as those on the right:
If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. 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.
In 1940 Bugs Bunny makes his debut in “A Wild Hare.”
In 1943 Stalin issues order #227 which makes cowardice and/or retreat on the part of Russian soldiers a crime punishable by death.
In 1953 the Armistice to end the Korean War is signed.
In 1973 my ex-wife is born. Happy Birthday ex-wife!
In 1980 the ex-shah of
Signs for those who see "them"? Where is my medicine? Why is there no conspiracy theorist's desk calendar? Don't steal that idea.
*The Reign of Terror was inaugurated by the Law of 22 Prairial, also known as the loi de la Grande Terreur which essentially eliminated the rule of law by turning the judicial process into a mere means of prosecution without recourse to defense.
