As we ponder Sarah Palin’s applause line “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists,” let us recall these lines from a letter the fanatical Jacobin Jean-Lambert Tallien sent from Nantes to the National Convention in Paris, during the Revolution-era massacres. He was reporting on the work he and fellow revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Carrier were doing cleansing the Loire Valley of royalists, Catholics, and other counterrevolutionary terrorists:
Tomorrow I and Carrier have prepared a civic baptism for 1,200 women and children, mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, or sons, of the accursed Brigands of the Vendée: in two days, three impure generations of rebels and fanatics, have ceased to be.
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