Company representatives for a proposed data center left a city council meeting in Oregon after they discovered protestors had brought a guillotine and displayed it outside during the municipal session.
The company reps departed the late July meeting in Salem prematurely, citing “safety concerns,” Yahoo News reported.
The guillotine, which severs a victim’s head with a falling blade, became the iconic symbol of the French revolution, which started out as a movement for democracy but ended up as a tyrannical bloodbath where even France’s King Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette were decapitated by the efficient device in front of cheering crowds.
A raucous, vocal crowd also gathered outside...
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