Grillo Says His Party Is ‘French Revolution Without Guillotine’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Bloomberg News

Grillo Says His Party Is ‘French Revolution Without Guillotine’
By Andrew Frye - Mar 29, 2013 12:19 PM CT .

Beppe Grillo, the ex-comedian supported by a quarter of Italian voters, praised his lawmakers for rejecting compromise with adversaries as the country’s divided parliament struggles to form a government.

“We’re going to win with our ideas and our strength because we’re a miracle,” Grillo said in an interview broadcast today on his website. “We are the French Revolution without the guillotine.”

Grillo spoke after leaders of his Five Star Movement met with President Giorgio Napolitano and reiterated their refusal to back any government led by rival parties. Grillo’s goal remains to sweep veteran politicians from parliament and implement a program of economic stimulus to pull Italy from its cycle of chronic recessions, he said.

The French Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy of Louis XVI in the 18th century, failed in its goal of implementing a stable democracy and collapsed into the Reign of Terror, with about 20,000 people beheaded by the guillotine. It gave way to dictatorship under Napoleon.


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[DJ13]

1. He's missing the best part then

[Javaman]

2. Technically speaking...

It was the Reign of Terror AFTER the revolution that used the guillotine in that over zealous fashion that we have come to know and revile.

So, then will he be rounding up the innocent as well as the guilty? Will he also condemn those guilty by even the most remote and trivial association, as was common during the Reign of Terror?

So does he equate himself to revolutionary or to Robespierre? Or a sans culotte? Or a Jacobin?

I truly hate these kinds of hyperbole based proclamations. I don't know his political stance but we are familiar in this nation with these types of statements. They are usually made by the tea baggers.

[pennylane100]

3. I do not know much about him

and I would hope that his reference to the French Revolution was that it was at first waged against the ruling nobility. One thing he did say was that he wanted a stimulus plan for Italy. Maybe he could turn out to be one of the good guys. One can always hope.

[Javaman]

4. I hope so too, for my cousins sake...

Let's just hope he doesn't allow his hyperbole to get the best of him.

Cheers.