Tea at Trianon: Wake Up and Smell the Alinsky

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, April 21, 2020

Wake Up and Smell the Alinsky

From Cheryl Chumley at The Washington Times:

America’s frustration — sane Americans’ frustration — grows.

“A revolutionary organizer,” Alinsky wrote, “must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives — agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.”

Like waiting on the coronavirus “welfare” stimulus checks — afraid to rock the government hand-out boat? This is not to say that coronavirus is a manufactured ailment aimed at bringing down America, a la Alinsky style, a la planned and purposeful and plotted from the get-go, from the very beginning. But: Coronavirus has certainly given an opportunity for the left to exercise its power-lust grabs of individual freedoms. Coronavirus has presented the chance for the likes of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — who’s busily stamping out any seed of freedom in her state of Michigan — to flex ye olde Gestapo muscles and send chilling messages to freedom-minded Americans that government can do as it wishes. That government can even suspend the Constitution if it wishes. Stay-at-homers ought to take the stay-at-home time to read a bit of Alinsky, through the veins of these modern crushing times. The applications of then-to-now, of words-to-wings of reality, will prove eye-opening. Eye-opening and rousing, hopefully. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: Historically I am guessing this is not the first time the Constitution has been trampled, but knowing how private citizen Donald Trump had his Constitutional rights trampled and how local government is currently doing the same, one needs to be aware. We are abiding by the request for 'social distancing' in groups for health reasons, but allowing police to remove one or two people on the beach, in the surf, hiking the wilds of a National Forest, or a father throwing a ball to his child in a park, etc., is overstepping the bounds of law enforcement. This also goes for the Governor of Michigan deciding and designating what she considers essential items.; April 21, 2020 at 11:42:00 AM EDT