Counterrevolution Quotes
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti
Thai society had been polarized and very large peaceful demonstrations (by the Yellow Shirts) were calling for the resignation of the government which although very corrupt and controlled by a single very rich family which had extensive support of the rural and poor (the Red Shirts). This quotation illustrates how a peaceful protest could lead to violence and terrorism. This Red Shirt leader, rather than lose, would lead violence in the streets like the Brown Shirts of the pre WWII Germany. If the violence fails, he was willing to go underground and become a terrorist movement.
He grossly underestimated the intensity of the American patriotic feeling and the fighting ability of the Colonists. He Commanded the Royal Marines at the Battle of Bunker Hill where he was killed by a shot fired by ex-slave and Black Patriot, Peter Salem. Note the recommendation to destroy towns. At the time, that was considered improper in warfare between nations, yet it was not so clear in fighting a rebellion. However, this was against British policy and it was not a tactic employed in trying to suppress the American Revolution.
the U. S. and the West Of particular interest is the last sentence. Rarely does the Iranian leader and the American leadership agree on anything, but what Khamenei alleges is exactly the object of American general policy toward Iran. The U. S,, has other objectives as well, and the man purpose of the draconian sanctions is to pressure the Iranians to halt their nuclear weapons development or give the UN access to be sure that there is no military development nuclear program.
Julius Jacob von Haynau, 1786–1853, was a vicious Austrian General who had committed many atrocities in Italy and Hungary which today would be considered War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. He even had women publicly flogged who were heard saying anything sympathetic about the freedom fighters who the General suppressed brutally. Haynau was known and despised by military men the world over. So many of the Confederate and Union officers understood the insult. General Butler was not accused of atrocities of the usual type, but as the Commanding Union General of New Orleans, he was not very chivalrous to the Southern women of the city who were particularly effective in harassing the Union Officers and men. For example, the women would store the urine and feces of the chamber pots of the house and wait until Union soldiers, preferably officers, walked by and unloaded the waste on them from upper story windows. Butler ordered that women who harassed the soldiers could be “treated like common prostitutes.” Butler also turned a blind eye to the looting of the activist women’s silver and other valuables.
