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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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To: Nifster

the brownshirts/sa were too


41 posted on 09/14/2020 12:21:34 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Uh huh.

Building them now?


42 posted on 09/14/2020 1:03:45 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: House Atreides

both French


43 posted on 09/14/2020 1:06:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: LeoWindhorse

lol.
ok.
I can weld and cut.
Not really kidding.


44 posted on 09/14/2020 1:11:17 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Beheading is a popular Islamic act of terror in today’s world, so it would seem there’s an underlying connection that needs to be investigated here.


45 posted on 09/14/2020 5:03:57 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: alexander_busek

Care to elaborate on that? Are you claiming that guillotines are mentioned in the Bible?
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I suspect his reference is to beheading, but the popular practice of Islamic terrorists is more apropos.


46 posted on 09/14/2020 5:10:48 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Salamander
If they can trot around with guillotines, why I can’t I stomp around with a 30” machete?

Because you do not enjoy the support and protection of the organs of State Security.

47 posted on 09/14/2020 5:13:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: allendale

With all due respect, when will that “time” you speak of actually come? Has it not passed?

All these armed to the teeth, pro-2A people....where are they? When will they actually pick up arms? Our rights have been basically taken from us already and all I see is online pontificating from keyboard warriors.

Cities are burning. Small businesses decimated. The average person cannot buy food and essentials at their local store without a face diaper. Travel restrictions imposed.

What more will it take? When do we pick up our arms and destroy this cultural marxist movement that has seized hold of us?


48 posted on 09/14/2020 5:13:03 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: alexander_busek

4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They[a] had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

REVELATION 20:4


49 posted on 09/14/2020 5:17:13 AM PDT by RevelationDavid (Don't just 'know about God'...... KNOW GOD....!)
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To: alexander_busek

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


50 posted on 09/14/2020 5:18:45 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You guys keep your guillotine.

This is MY symbol of terror.


51 posted on 09/14/2020 5:26:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: surroundedbyblue
What more will it take? When do we pick up our arms and destroy this cultural marxist movement that has seized hold of us?

Hold them at bay for now. After the election is decided, it's go time.

Upon a Trump win, however, I do expect him to deploy true military to quash the riots once and for all.

52 posted on 09/14/2020 5:27:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: alexander_busek; metmom

Well you’ve been quoted the verse and chapter.

This is exactly the method the Son of Perdition will use to enact his Satanic World Government.

All who refuse will be hunted down and beheaded - publicly.


53 posted on 09/14/2020 5:33:08 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: doorgunner69

That’s exactly right.

My guess is when the SHTF the ANTIFA dead will be uncountable.

You know who they are probably - 90% of them are basement dwellers at grandma’s.


54 posted on 09/14/2020 5:35:05 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: metmom

“The guillotine is not going away, folks.”

The media will tell you “It’s not a guillotine, it’s a vegetable slicer”.


55 posted on 09/14/2020 5:36:07 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I'm Joe Biden and they tell me I approve this message.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Oh indeed

Once you take power you must get rid of the rowdies.....they might turn on you


56 posted on 09/14/2020 5:42:26 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

A peaceful vegetable slicer at that....


57 posted on 09/14/2020 5:49:36 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

While the “OK” hand signal strikes fear in social justice warriors whenever and wherever they see it.

It debilitates them almost as much as seeing TRUMP 2020 marked in chalk on sidewalks.


58 posted on 09/14/2020 6:32:41 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Bratch
Can you caption that and tell us the location, etc?

Someone sure keeps it painted real nice, even today.

59 posted on 09/14/2020 6:42:27 AM PDT by OKSooner ("We're going to put everyone over ten out of business.")
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To: Bratch

Nice touch adding a roof so that the customers aren’t left sweltering in the hot sun.


60 posted on 09/14/2020 6:50:07 AM PDT by fluorescence
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