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The Guillotine: A Symbol Meant to Terrify Americans into Submission
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property ^ | September 8, 2020 | John Horvat II

Posted on 09/13/2020 9:12:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

All culture wars involve a clash of symbols. Symbols say a lot with a little. All it takes is a piece of cloth or an extraordinary object to transmit a world of ideas. They convey identity, impact and mood.

One sinister symbol, appearing in the riots and disturbances, is the guillotine. In picking this device, the rioters have chosen a symbol that energizes their militants, frightens their opponents and represents their uncompromising ideologies.

These revolutionaries adopt it willingly, enthusiastically and unapologetically. They know exactly what it means and use it to strike terror in the souls of those it targets.

The Guillotine Appears

The guillotine targets the American order. It is found on Portland’s chaotic streets, even in its residential neighborhoods at night, as a warning of what can be expected from revolutionary mob “justice.” It has appeared before the house of Jeff Bezos near Washington, D.C. The militants at the CHAZ/CHOP experiment in Seattle referred to it. After the Republic National Convention, protesters outside the White House displayed a guillotine with an effigy of President Trump to be beheaded.

The guillotine was the instrument of death and terror by which tens of thousands were executed during the French Revolution. Its inventor was a French physician, Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. He had hoped to develop a machine that would behead the French Revolution’s enemies painlessly and mechanically. Unfortunately, his name became almost synonymous with the wholesale slaughter that characterized the revolution that so destroyed French society.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; frenchrevolution; guillotine; insurrection; jabobins; marxists; revolution
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1 posted on 09/13/2020 9:12:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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2 posted on 09/13/2020 9:18:32 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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The Left really enjoys their orgasmic delusions. The have no idea how well armed and determined decent people will be when the time comes.


3 posted on 09/13/2020 9:20:30 PM PDT by allendale
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4 posted on 09/13/2020 9:22:04 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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and reviewing history, like many who embraced the guillotine for dispatching their enemies

they too fail to realize in the end, many of them will wind up under it as well


5 posted on 09/13/2020 9:24:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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The Nazis used the guillotine more than they did firing squads.

A few Antifa heads piled up neatly like cannon balls would send a message, IMO.


6 posted on 09/13/2020 9:24:29 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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If they can trot around with guillotines, why I can’t I stomp around with a 30” machete?


7 posted on 09/13/2020 9:26:21 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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if you can open carry i dont see why not


8 posted on 09/13/2020 9:28:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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I will see their guillotine and raise one industrial chipper shredder.


9 posted on 09/13/2020 9:31:13 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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10 posted on 09/13/2020 9:34:42 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Having Antifa build one and roll it out to our neighborhoods will make it that much easier to use on them.


11 posted on 09/13/2020 9:37:40 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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The American counter offer.



12 posted on 09/13/2020 9:43:30 PM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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They bring their guillotines, we bring our guns. I like the odds.....


13 posted on 09/13/2020 9:44:02 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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Symbols...heh....
Flying lead is not a symbol.
These fools think this is a game!


14 posted on 09/13/2020 9:45:10 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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I think a tank is more useful.

H/T TheGatewayPundit

15 posted on 09/13/2020 9:46:46 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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the very same people that see nooses hanging from every tree and garage, think a guillotine is a good symbol.


16 posted on 09/13/2020 9:49:01 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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That’s a deterrent, I’m thinking we face more of a numbers elimination game in the future,
It’s just my fat gut feeling.
Lead will be the main tool...along with sacrifice.


17 posted on 09/13/2020 9:49:55 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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Can I have a tank?
I would like one.


18 posted on 09/13/2020 9:51:00 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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19 posted on 09/13/2020 10:01:03 PM PDT by moehoward
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It’s the AntiFa shitheads that will be marched to the guillotine . Right after the election ,which they will try to overthrow . Real guillotines , with steel blade , no plastic blades . We are building them now . 100’s of them. They will be branded with an A on their foreheads, before their heads are removed , so they are marked as anarchists, in death.

They started this shit , we will finish it


20 posted on 09/13/2020 10:02:55 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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