Tea at Trianon: "We Will Come On You In Terror"

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, 2012

"We Will Come On You In Terror"

She only said what they all really think:

A major Obama donor and donor to the Democrat party (over $120,000 this election cycle) is caught on video saying

"F— you, you Catholics!” Knight bellows over cheers from her audience.

“We will come on you in a terror,” Knight growls in another cut. “We will bring… St. Peter’s temple down and we will swallow it in the sea.” (“St. Peter’s temple” is a reference to the Catholic church itself.)"
The videos are included at the link if you want to see them but I warn you they are vulgar and graphic beyond belief. (Read entire post.)

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1 comment:

lara77 said...: That is truly sad; why cannot people keep opinions or truly negative attitudes out of the public arena. Of course, it works both ways; I have heard our President and organizations to the left of the political spectrum being called truly abominable things. The recent comments by some Republican candidates for Congress on women and rape are so disgusting I will not comment on them; it shocks me that such ignorance and stupidity is out there and these jokers are running for Congress! Let us all vote next Tuesday and be grateful we have that precious right denied to so many other nations.; October 31, 2012 at 9:11:00 AM EDT