French protestors were rioting in the streets; rebellion was in the air. Thousands of Frenchmen of all classes had been executed, many by beheading, including women and children. Royalists (supporters of King Louis XVI) felt the monarchy permanently slipping away. Roman Catholic Church leaders had lost their privileged positions, including much of their lands. The commoners were heady with new laws that gave them power after their powerlessness.

Fear, anger, hatred, and resentment reigned in Paris as mobs roamed and often controlled the streets. The common people wanted to keep what concessions they had gained, and the aristocrats and the church leaders wanted to gain back control.

The French Revolution (planned for decades by Freemasons, Jacobins, and assorted atheistic God-haters) was out of control. Even the revolutionary leaders lost power and were themselves marched to the guillotine that was always ripe with blood from recent victims.

The protesters (revolutionaries) had three goals: destroy the government, the church, and the traditional home. Their battle cry was liberty, equality, fraternity, which was admirable, but extremists turned it into rivers of blood.

France was about to make a decision that would decide their destiny: would they follow America’s “revolution” of a decade earlier, or would they heed the rantings of radicals of past years and choose to be ruled by a strongman?

Americans wanted independence, while the French wanted insurrection. Americans had an intense love for freedom; Frenchmen had an intense hatred for the Roman Catholic Church.

An obscure soldier saw an opportunity in the chaos and took it. Like many world leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power via revolution. Napoleon’s battles were at first against his fellow Frenchmen, as he sought to defend the republican government that had replaced the monarchy with the beheading of King Louis XVI on January 21, 1793. He would later destroy and take over the government.

Napoleon was in command of soldiers in Paris and realized that the city had exploded, and anarchy was about to take control. He ordered his soldiers to use cannon against the rebels. At the first blast, the crowd scattered as about 300 royalists died in the street. Historian Thomas Carlyle, in his classic history of the revolution, declared that Napoleon won with a “whiff of grapeshot,” and in doing so, effectively ended the French Revolution.

It did not end there. This was Napoleon’s stepping stone to absolute power. He went on to bleed Europe for more than ten years before he was stopped by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The British exiled Napoleon to the island of Saint Helena where he died six years later.
The Scourge of Europe was dead at 51.

While I don’t have a law enforcement background, I believe it is time for a whiff, just a whiff of grapeshot, to restore order to city streets. Not to kill people, although that could happen; people are already dying during the “peaceful” protests. Mayors and Governors are mainly responsible for the disruption, disorder, and destruction, and they have proved ineffective in Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, and about 30 other cities.

American cities have been invaded. Many concerned demonstrators who want better black/white relationships are being used by low-class violent hooligans organized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, sworn enemies of liberty, equality, fraternity—the motto of the French Revolution. Moreover, burning cities, broken windows, and barricaded streets do not reflect the motto. Not in Paris or Philadelphia. Not in Marseilles or Minneapolis.

More than thirty cities have been invaded by barbarians: Atlanta, Albuquerque, Austin, Bakersfield, Boston, Chicago, Chattanooga, Columbus, Dallas, Fort Worth, Des Moines, Denver, Detroit, District of Columbia, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, New York City, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, San Antonio, and others. Most of the protests are not peaceful, but disorderly, destructive, dangerous, even deadly.

Two things are common with those invaded cities: Democratic control and strict gun laws. Another is official duplicity (a kind word for lying). When politicians and the media speak about the death of Floyd, they usually repeat that he was “unarmed,” but they never reveal that he was a lifetime felon and was resisting arrest. Most of the other Blacks killed by police officers were criminals like Floyd. If those officials were responsible leaders and were honestly concerned with all lives, they would remind Blacks and Whites to obey, respect, and cooperate with police officials.

Montesquieu was a French legislator whose Spirit of the Laws helped create a desire for freedom, wrote, “When the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.” America could now be where the French were: standing on the edge of a cliff. Will it be law and order or mob rule? It is time for local officials to take control. I hope others don’t die in the attempt, but people are dying anyway. Any deaths, however unfortunate, should have a payoff—peace and order and jail for all unruly, violent, participants.

It is shocking that city and state officials have been so lenient, even cooperative with violent protesters. It is unprecedented, unnecessary, and unfortunate, and it is time for disruptive protesters to get a “whiff of grapeshot.”

Difficult times usually produce or reveal great leaders. Napoleon was at the right place at the right time and ended the French Revolution with a “whiff of grapeshot.” However, he rode from that encounter of grapeshot to put fear in the hearts of millions of Europeans instead of making France a free nation no longer under the heel of an authoritative king. Grapeshot followed Napoleon all over Europe, Russia, and Egypt.

Tragically, those in control (that changed quickly) followed the ruminations of Georges-Jacques Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre instead of believers in personal freedom that American leaders followed: Montesquieu, John Locke, and Sir William Blackstone.

As American cities have been invaded by modern vandals and law and order have been suspended, it is time for President Trump to exercise his authority and protect us against enemies, foreign and domestic by a “whiff of grapeshot.” Napoleon ended the beheading spree of the revolution, and Trump can end this anarchist rebellion and should do so even if someone is killed.

Whatever it takes, Trump must restore order and prosecute those responsible for the violence resulting in destruction and death. I believe he can then be assured of reelection in November. If order is not restored soon, America will be condemned to dragging the corpse of Joe Biden on our backs for at least four years.

Or, until his family moves him to the Old Folks Home.

If violent protesters refuse to obey the law, Trump should give them a “whiff of grapeshot” that will save us from the destruction like that of the French. Peaceful protesters are welcome; violent protesters will be jailed if they don’t scatter. All those arrested will be prosecuted.

I prefer four more years of kept promises, a strong economy, full employment, abortion limited if not stopped, a truly conservative Supreme Court, and immigration under control.

If that requires a “whiff of grapeshot,” let’s have it now before it breaks out in the suburbs because it would need much more than a “whiff.”

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Street thugs used their free speech right to close down the free speech of Donald Trump in Chicago where 25,000 people had gathered to hear his political pitch! As I watched the video I was ashamed of those Americans. Why can’t sane people discuss, debate, disagree, and even demonstrate without losing control and smashing the rights of others. Trump decided to cancel the rally which I think was a mistake. If you are intimidated by bullies and thugs, that emboldens them even more.

Had the protestors held up signs in silence they would have been very correct in their actions; however, they proved to be thugs. Every student who tried to disrupt the rally should at least be expelled from the university and those who were violent should go jail. However, that almost never happens and such events will continue to happen.

Some people accused Sanders of sending the thugs but I don’t believe that for a minute. Bernie may be a socialist but he is not a thug. In fact, he may be one of the more principled candidates in the race. His principles are all skewed and I would probably disagree with him if he said it was daylight but he is true to what he thinks is truth. Of course, he should have vociferously disavowed, disagreed with, and distanced himself from the thugs.

MoveOn.org took credit for the Chicago thuggery and George Soros, a thug for sure, wrote the check. Rich but still a thug. According to Conservative Truth, reporters revealed that the protestors didn’t have any idea whom they supported for president and they carried professionally produced signs proving it was all planned in advance.

Many protestors carried signs or wore T-Shirts “Muslims against Trump,” “Black Lives Matter,” and others. One doesn’t have to be too bright to know that it was not a spontaneous demonstration but well-planned and well-funded. Moreover, I heard a protester admit that they had planned the protest for more than a week. You will discover that the protestors were mercenaries in the service of Soros. When Trump choked (!), capitulated and cancelled the rally, the Sanders supporters yelled, “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie” and “We stopped Trump, we stopped Trump.” Trump supporters chanted, “We want Trump, we want Trump.”

Chicago community activist Quo Vadis confessed that hundreds of protesters had stationed themselves around the arena, and that they intended to demonstrate right after Trump took the stage. Their goal, he admitted, was “for Donald to take the stage and to completely interrupt him. The plan is to shut Donald Trump all the way down.” Ah, yes real Americanism there but what can you expect when far left university professors cram such repressive pabulum into their empty heads?

One organizer, Nathaniel Lewis, a 25-year-old graduate student, said the cancellation shows the “power of unity.” No, it shows the power of thuggery and a herd mentality.

Amalia Pallares is a professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies, and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at University of Illinois at Chicago. She’s an adviser to the Fearless Undocumented Alliance, a student organization at UIC that helped organize and participate in Trump protests on Friday. She admitted that groups planned for at least a week to close down the rally. I wonder if she even thought about how that was inconsiderate, immoral, and illegal.

At the Boca Raton rally, protestors chanted vulgar statements about Trump that I won’t even try to disguise. I would like to see a Ph.D. candidate write a dissertation on the tendency of leftists– more so than conservatives– to be vile, violent, and vulgar–especially vulgar. He or she will discover that their mommas never washed out their mouths with a bar of soap.

A Kansas City protestor admitted that the protesters had two goals – to disrupt proceedings as much as possible and signal their outrage over Trump’s divisive rhetoric. Is he so stupid to think that they have a legal right to disrupt a public rally? Who told him they have a right to silence “divisive rhetoric”? The answer to Trump’s “divisive rhetoric” is convincing rhetoric to prove its falsity, failure, or fakery. While Trump is sometimes divisive, no honest person can blame him for the violence.

John McGraw, a 78-year-old Trump supporter who slugged a black protestor at a North Carolina rally, should be arrested and tried for assault and Trump should insist on it. He should be in jail today. McGraw justified his thuggery by saying, “He deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization.” Yes, or he might be a liberal Methodist preacher. John is a jerk.

At Trump’s Dayton rally a protester charged the platform where Trump was speaking and was stopped by authorities. Thomas DiMassimo, 22, of Fairborn, Ohio was charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic and appeared in court on Monday. Thomas is not only a thug but he also is not a cogent thinker since following his arrest, he called for peaceful protests! Let me get this straight: he was arrested for violently breaking through security and charging a platform to silence a public speaker who had paid for the building, security, sound system, etc.! He said, “We must nonviolently shut down every Trump rally.” He said. “We must stop this violent, foolish man from taking this country and destroying it.” I would be so embarrassed if that were my son or grandson!

One lawyer said that the protesters had a right to shout down Trump! Evidently not a Constitutional lawyer! Thousands of people drove many miles, stood in line for hours wanting to hear a man tell them why he should be the next president; and the protestors declared that they have the right to shout him down and prohibit many others from hearing him! That is America?

All the candidates came up short in their response to the protestors. Sanders, Clinton, Kasich, Rubio, and Cruz all spoke of Trump’s rhetoric as being the cause of the violence. They are wrong. They should have blamed the protestors who were determined to break up the rally, rip the constitution, and embarrass their families and universities–not blame Trump who has a right to say stupid stuff. Americans still have the right to be stupid and the protesters should be thrilled that is true since stupidity seems to be in their genes.

This was no one’s finest hour.

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