HOW MUCH IT SOUNDS LIKE ‘OBAMAOLOGY’ – WE MUST VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION TO SAVE THE CONSTITUTION

HOW MUCH IT SOUNDS LIKE ‘OBAMAOLOGY’ – WE MUST VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION TO SAVE THE CONSTITUTION.

Robespierre, the French Revolutionary explained:  The Republic, he explained, was the hope of mankind; if it disappeared, tyranny would prevail forever; thus, in order to preserve liberty, it was necessary to suppress it temporarily.  That line of reasoning, for all its self-evident fallacy, has continued to have enormous appeal.

In the name of their ideology they sent cartfuls of aristocrats, priests, and assorted opponents to the guillotine, it was, they considered, for a good reason, and no one was more coldly logical, or more blood-chillingly threatening.