Tom Holland
speaker
53,183 appearances
201 recordings
9 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 4d ago
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Anyone who fails to demonstrate a satisfactory discharge of their civic duties.
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I mean, again, if you want to get rid of someone, you could apply that to almost anyone.
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And then most sweepingly of all, and I quote, those who by their conduct, relations or language spoken or written have shown themselves partisans of tyranny.
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So this is a sweeping, I mean, literally terrifying law.
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But of course, for true patriots, that's the point of it.
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That's what it's
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serving.
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Tackett draws on the diaries of this woman, Rosalie Julien, who's the mother of one of Robespierre's agents out in the provinces.
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She thinks the law of suspects is brilliant.
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She absolutely loves it.
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She writes to one of her sons, it is so necessary for the security of the state that even those who are innocent victims cannot complain if they are truly Republican.
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So in other words, you get convicted, sent to the guillotine.
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You shouldn't moan about it, but just reflect that you're serving the
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the mood of complete paranoia that is governing not just the committee itself, not just the convention, but the streets of Paris, the sense that there are traitors and conspirators everywhere and that it's only by really violent repression that the revolution can be saved.
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And again, I mean, anyone who has...
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seen the operations of social media today, will kind of recognise a very pale echo of that mood,
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thing is, it works.
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Yeah.
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The revolution is saved.
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The terror serves the purpose for which it has been introduced.
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