Don't know anything about the writer of the article or about the credibility of the guillotine claim, but the Reign of Terror has been Illuminati standard operating procedure for revolutions all over the world since the 18th century. The revolutions didn't all have guillotines in common, but they all, or nearly all, included releasing violent criminals from the prisons and insane asylums to whip the street-fighting mobs of revolutionaries into an even greater frenzy.