Tea at Trianon: Creating a Police State

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

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Creating a Police State

How public, physical humiliation is a powerful form of psychological warfare. (Via The Western Confucian) To quote:

The truth is that the government is not fighting wars against terrorists any more. It is creating, provoking, escalating wars and then using the resistance as the pretext to create a police state capable of conducting a war against its own people.

Of course, it will be so much easier if it can convince the people to surrender their rights willingly, voluntarily, to submit as the cattle that must be their ultimate, inescapable fate. Public, inescapable, physical humiliation is just one of the ways to condition people to that subservience.

It’s working.

Julygirl said...: Will it stop with just air travel? What about shopping malls, commuter trains, cruise ships, restaurants, hotels....these places have already been put in jeopardy in other countries. "Let the madness begin."

No one has yet mentioned who has ties with the company that manufactures the scanners. Look it up. Millions into the pockets of appointed and elected officials.; November 25, 2010 at 11:10:00 AM EST
The North Coast said...: Our authorities are using the threat of "terrorism" to cow the population and turn this country into a police state; and sadly, we are acquiescing.

All I have to say to those who use the events of 9/11 to justify the cancellation of our constitutional rights is this: The world's governments are the worst murderers. Three thousand killed by the 9/11 hijackers is nothing besides the body count produced by the terrorist thug governments of the world, including our own, which has colluded with some of the world's bloodiest dictatorships to assist in the murders of hundreds of thousands of people. Never mind the tens of millions murdered by Hitler, Stalin, and other government-empowered thugs.

You can shelter yourself from the thugs in your neighborhood, but there is NO shelter from a terrorist government.; November 28, 2010 at 11:21:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Good point, Julygirl!

N.C., I totally agree with you!; November 28, 2010 at 1:02:00 PM EST