I’ve commented in the past about the names various organizations give to various things. Our Congress makes it a practice of giving misleading names to Bills, Committees and Anything Else About Which They Want To Deceive Us. We folks back home are happier when we are deceived.
An example was the Peacekeeper Missile (later deactivated). We feel better when we are led to believe that, when one of our gigantic missiles (this one had up to 10 warheads) blows things into little pieces, the result is Lasting Worldwide Peace.
Recently I was doing some reading about the French Revolution. Those guys were very good at Name Deception. They had a Committee that officially killed a whole bunch of people. Its name was...
“Because of the Jacobin rule of the Committee of Public Safety, tens of thousands of French were executed. Thousands were conscripted into the army, creating a force of 850,000 strong.”
Would I or they kid u?
