Tea at Trianon: The Chinese Re-Connection

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Chinese Re-Connection

A reader sent me this interesting article.

The Chinese espionage that occurred on Clinton's watch was unprecedented, and analysts still don't know how deep Chinese moles penetrated our security complex.

Terry Nelson said...: "Bill Clinton was the best president the People's Republic of China ever had. His wife may be even better. Beijing, hungry for more technology transfers, is betting on it."

I am ALWAYS amazed this is rarely ever talked about in media. It has been treated as an obscure footnote in his history... covered up and buried.; October 30, 2007 at 1:18:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: I have often thought the same, Terry.; October 30, 2007 at 2:54:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: Clinton has had speaking tours/engagements in China.
This story has quite a bit of damaging info!; October 30, 2007 at 5:43:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, dear, and I think it is only the tip of the ice berg.....; October 30, 2007 at 5:48:00 PM EDT