To the editor:

The riots and destruction of Black Lives Matter and Antifa smell and look like what took place in the French Revolution that produced a reign of terror which was the darling of the socialists of that day.

The French Revolution clearly shows that the militant socialists were people possessed by a lust for power without moral limitations, hatred of God (The Democratic convention’s Pledge of Allegiance left out “under God” twice.), and willingness to sacrifice anyone (Joe Biden) or anything (Democratic Party) for their own purposes. The true Russian anarchist Prince Kropotkin, not Donald Trump, wrote in 1908, “What we learn today from the study of the Great Revolution” (caps his, not mine, in reference to the French Revolution) “is that it was the source and origin of all the present communist, anarchist and socialist conceptions.”

They had a revolution, but in America we had a War of Independence. There’s quite a difference between the two. John Clark Ridpath, L.L.D., from Greencastle, Indiana, made this statement in “Ridpath’s History of the United States,” copyright 1904, on page 178: “As we have said, the War of American Independence — the Revolution so-called — by which the American colonies were detached from their allegiance to the mother country and at length made a nation …” (A Hoosier couldn’t be wrong, could he?)

We have veered off from War of American Independence to the vulgar use of Revolutionary. We have ducked our pledge “and to the Republic for which it stands” to “democracy.”

Now, back to the French Revolution. Before it was over, 40,000 people were beheaded in Paris and 40,000 in the countryside. They went through 17 governments, each new one killing off the old one. The men who paid for the French Revolution (think George Soros today) the Duke of Orleans and Robespierre were also sent to the guillotine. (You can shout now.) The weak king would not allow the military to fire on the French people. He loved them too much, so they executed him and his family. Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” although fiction, really describes how it was. Napoleon Bonaparte saved them from this revolution, but he carried Frenchmen all over Europe in wars to be killed by the hundred thousands. They preferred an Emperor to mob rule.

We need to watch these communist fronts and put them down, or we will live in total anarchy.

Deeply concerned,

James Brown, Spearsville Road

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