Tonight the face of the coming Bolshevik regime in Russia was made clear. Tonight Lenin gave the order to butcher Nicholas Romanov and his family in a basement in Siberia.

Gentle young women and the hemophiliac Russian heir were killed with bullets and bayonets for no good political reason beyond a belief in the power of terror.

When Lenin looked at the history of revolution, the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution did not horrify him. Instead, Lenin believed not enough good people had died in France and that this “softness” of the Terror prevented the new order from being established in France. Lenin was determined to not be kind, not to make that mistake of charity, and the killings of Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, and Alexei were just among the first that would eventually include priests, nuns, children, and millions of folk unfortunate enough not to fit the Communist vision of the future.

The decision to martyr the last Tsar and his family made good short term sense, but backfired. As a ruler, Nicholas Romanov was a failure, but as a brave man and a father his best features were on display. The image of those bayonets and that basement room were burned into the public mind and led to the lives of the Royal family being memorialized in many books and movies in the free world and in the prayers of many of the Russian people. In the end, the courage of their deaths led the Russian Orthodox Church to declare the family “passion bearers” inside the Church. . . honored not for their political role, but for their suffering.

Lenin’s belief in terrorism to gain power, he loved the bomb thrown in a city street, was a lesson learned by all amoral people in the twentieth century. Lenin is the teacher of Bin Laden. Lenin killed innocents as party policy . . . just as the Islamic thugs do today.

When the so-called Moslems (no true followers of Islam) kill innocent citizens in Iraq and Israel, they are following the policy of Lenin that made its public debut tonight, July 17 1918.

When they believe that power can be built on the blood of non-combatants, they repeat Lenin’s error and create new martyrs for the twenty-first century in the cause of human dignity.

Of course, war is a filthy business that will always involve bad people taking the chance of a war to harm innocents. There will always be those who are accidentally harmed by soldiers trying to do their job. But Lenin, with all later terrorists (like Bin Laden and the Iranian puppets Israel is now trying to destroy), made killing the innocent state policy. He meant to instill terror, meant to kill the innocent, and meant to keep doing it in order to keep power.

Israel regrets the loss of any innocent life. Lenin and the Bin Ladens delight in it.

History is an odd thing. It now finds Islamic radicals stooping to the tactics of the God-hating Lenin. They should realize that they cannot hope to win in this manner. Their very evil will stain their cause. Every child in Israel they kill with their bombs and rockets. . . intentionally targeted at civilian areas. . . creates an image in the mind of the thoughtful that will doom their cause.

On this night, terror was used as state policy for one of the first times, but martyrdom and courage will always triumph against such terror so long as people who believe in human dignity are willing to stand against it.