{"id":35979,"date":"2018-04-05T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35979"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:47:16","slug":"robespierres-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/robespierres-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Robespierre&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meme_LarryA_RobspierresLaw_URL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meme_LarryA_RobspierresLaw_URL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meme_LarryA_RobspierresLaw_URL.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Meme_LarryA_RobspierresLaw_URL-407x450.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When LarryA submitted this graphic to the meme contest (now ended at the Cabal, though intriguing memes are still coming in), I first assumed that Robespierre&#8217;s Law was already a thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a truth known to freedomistas everywhere, though both &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; remain oblivious to it.<\/p>\n<p>But no. Robespierre&#8217;s Law may be a well-known yet eternally disregarded truth, but Larry seems to be the first to have named it and memed it. I hope he does more with this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>About the infamous Maximilien Robespierre: His <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maximilien_Robespierre\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>; Robespierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/marisa-linton\/robespierre-and-terror\" target=\"_blank\">and the Terror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, even today if you look up quotes by this murderous example of Governmental Man, you might think you&#8217;re reading remarks from some deep-dyed freedom fighter. He&#8217;s a perfect example of power corrupting &#8212; and power destroying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When LarryA submitted this graphic to the meme contest (now ended at the Cabal, though intriguing memes are still coming in), I first assumed that Robespierre&#8217;s Law was already a thing. It&#8217;s certainly a truth known to freedomistas everywhere, though both &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; remain oblivious to it. But no. Robespierre&#8217;s Law may be a well-known yet eternally disregarded truth, but Larry seems to be the first to have named it and memed it. I hope he does more with this. &#8212;&#8211; About the infamous Maximilien Robespierre: His Wikipedia entry; Robespierre and the Terror. The funny thing is, even today&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/robespierres-law\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robespierre&#8217;s Law<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35985,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions\/35985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}