The Terror Returns to Paris - Avi Davis - American Thinker - "The New Jihadists do not need to win an election to accede to power. In this new world, what we consider as traditional political power is superfluous. What counts is who rules the streets -- and those who rule the streets are the ones prepared to enforce their own view of the world in as draconian manner as possible."

The Terror Returns to Paris


Barricade during Paris Commune of 1871

Terror" has worn many faces in Paris over  the past 225 years.

First there was la Terreur, in the early 1790s when the French Revolution spiraled into a orgy of bloodletting.  

Then came the extra judicial executions of the brief Paris Commune of 1871.

The 1890s witnessed the rise of the anarchists who planted bombs in the French Chamber of Deputies and in French cafes;  The Second World War saw the French Underground's relentless sabotage of German occupied Paris before its liberation in August, 1944; and in the 1970s, a host of  European and Arab terrorist groups including  the Red Army, Bader Meinhof Gang, the PLO and the PFLP slipped through the city, threatening kidnappings, hi-jacking and bombings.

In every instance citizens of Paris always seemed to believe that the latest outbreak was only a temporary virus that would soon enough pass through their system and be expunged.

The blood had not yet dried in the editorial meeting room of Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris on Wednesday, before commentators were making the very same assumptions, labeling the Parisian atrocity an isolated attack unconnected to either the rise of militant Islam or the civil disturbances that have streaked European society with blood in the past ten years.

In some ways they are right.   This is no longer the kind of terror to which we have become accustomed.  It is actually something very different. ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/the_terror_returns_to_paris.html