GUN LAWS & LEGISLATION
SUSAN SMITHColumnist
12:47 PM 04/03/2016
The problem of income inequality is currently being touted as the biggest problem in America today by our two Marxist frontrunners for the Democratic nomination to be the next President. As with all the bold, new ideas of the American left in the race for the White House in 2016, this is a much recycled idea, the solutions of which have been tried, and tried, and tried, and failed not only miserably but often catastrophically.
This is most notable in the ultimate class envy contretemps, that of the French Revolution, from 1789 – 1799 throughout the nation of France. In this decade long nightmare of cataclysmic national horror, those who did not have, (from the bourgeoisie on down), not only wanted what the haves (the aristocrats and the clergy) had, but they wanted those who had had previously to suffer for having had.
And suffer those of the Ancien Regime (the pre-Revolutionary way of doing things) did – more than 40,000 individuals died during the years of the Terror alone, just a brief part of the Revolutionary decade. Most of these murdered individuals were killed by guillotine for the crime of being, or suspected of being, artistocrats, or ‘aristos,’ as they were known at the time.
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It is admitted even by defenders of the Revolution in France that there were ‘excesses’ during this period in French history. There was a particularly astute observer of some of these ‘excesses,’ a most remarkable man of a group of remarkable men, the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Gouverneur Morris, a largely unacknowledged genius of this collection of men and of this period, had been assigned as our chief diplomat to France, and turned out to be the only foreign diplomat to remain in France during the Terror. He was a quite large man (he was actually the body double for the Rodin statue of George Washington, another very large man, that stands in the museum at Mount Vernon today), and known for his bravery and equanimity, but even Gouverneur Morris wasn’t prepared for what the Terror held in store.
Striving for Income equality for all was fine and good, and going to great lengths to achieve it was one thing, but some of the methods utilized by the Jacobins during the Terror was a bit over the top. Some methods used to take from the haves to give to the have nots weren’t as simple as a bullet to the brain or the fall of the blade of the guillotine – they involved a hand in the shape of a claw reaching into the chest cavity of a living human being and ripping out the heart. Then the revolutionary would munch on the heart in front of the still living ‘donor,’ at least as long as that poor individual would continue breathing.
This is exactly what Gouverneur Morris declared having witnessed during his tenure as US Ambassador in France, and that and other such images of Revolutionary activity stuck with him. Another example: on “August 10, 1792, Morris, in his legation across the river from the royal palace of the Tuileries, heard “the Cannon begin.” The palace was attacked and the King’s Swiss Guard slaughtered, and Louis and his family took refuge in the Assembly; from there they went to prison and eventually, execution. The Comte de Montmorin was seized and would later die in the September Massacres; another one of Morris’s co-conspirators was beaten to death in the street, and a third would be one of the first to die on the guillotine.”
By Michael Snyder, on March 23rd, 2016 
