Jean Charles de Menezes was a man shoot killed by the Metropolitan Police at the London Underground station after he was misidentified as one of the suicide terrorists involved in the previous bombing attempts. These events took place after the London bombings in which many people died. After this mistaken shooting of innocent person, Operation Kratos, a ‘shoot to kill’ policy created to combat the suicide terrorism, was suddenly exposed to the intense public debate and criticism of the media
Due to revolts and revolutions, starting in the late 1780s, the French Revolution went through a total of six changes of government. The main beginning factor of the French Revolution was the Old Regime. This was the social and political order of which King Louis XVII was king and the Estates were the different social classes. The Estates were the class system, consisting of the First, Second, and Third Estates. The Third Estate was the largest but lowest of them. They made up most of the population
the reign of terror being a purging of all opposing the french revolution is true, many other factors led and played into the event. For example, the factors that led to the Jacobins instituting the terror, the main victims of the terror, the way Robespierre justified the terror, and the how the terror failed to accomplish its goal. The reign of terror was the outcome of several different events starting in seventeen ninety-two. During October, the people of Paris were panicking and becomes chaotic
Maximilien Robespierre once stated, “Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less than a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.”1 In 1793, France desperately needed to find men to join the French army to fight their rival, Austria. The National Convention, led by Georges Jacques Danton, asked 300,000 men to join the revolts that were rapidly evolving
George Washington and Maximilien Robespierre were both leaders of revolutions but they had different outcomes of coming to power. Their different stances on leadership would come from their differences in growing up, rise to power, personal lives, and their retirements of their careers. George Washington was born to the second wife of a plantation owner in 1732. His father was also a justice of the county court. This is likely where his love and belief in the law began. When Washington was eleven
During the French Revolution, France desperately wanted change. A radical group, known as the Jacobins, seemed like the perfect route. When Robespierre, a prominent figure within the Jacobin Party, known for being the head of the Committee of Public Safety, first came to power, he wanted to eradicate all traces of France's past. He closed Catholic Churches, reinvented the calendar, and ruled with a "Reign of Terror". He sent people to the guillotine, a machine used to behead people, for minuscule
Throughout history, Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre has been scapegoated for much of the murderous bloodshed of the French Revolution, rightly so. His words and actions supported a policy of unrepentant terror. Under Robespierre’s leadership, the Revolution took a turn away from its previous ideals, preserved in the Constitution of 1793, towards extreme radicalism. To understand how Robespierre’s leadership acted against the Constitution of 1793, one must first understand what it says, how