#020: Divide, Agitate, Destroy

“But in the French Revolution we see for the first time that plan in operation which has been carried on right up to the present moment — the systematic attempt to create grievances in order to exploit them. The most remarkable instance of engineered agitation during the early stages of the Revolution was the extraordinary incident known to history as "The Great Fear," when on the same day, July 22, 1789, and almost at the same hour, in towns and villages all over France, a panic was created by the announcement that brigands were approaching and therefore that all good citizens must take up arms. The messengers who brought the news post-haste on horseback in many cases exhibited placards headed "Edict of the King," bearing the words "The King orders all chateaux to be burnt down; he only wishes to keep his own!" And the people, obedient to these commands, seized upon every weapon they could find and set themselves to the task of destruction. The object of the conspirators was thus achieved — the arming of the populace against law and order, a device which ever since 1789 has always formed the first item in the programme of the social revolution.”*

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*Webster, Nesta Helen. World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization (1921) (p. 33). Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

Nesta Helen Webster (24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English far-right[?] conspiracy theorist [analyst], who revived theories [researched facts] about the Illuminati. ... She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits. ... She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster