Tea at Trianon: An End To Orwellian Tactics

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

Sunday, May 31, 2020

An End To Orwellian Tactics

From Sara Carter:

Something had to be done and it was only a matter of time before the White House made the move to fight back. It happened this week and it couldn’t have been soon enough. The actions taken by the administration may not be perfect but they were absolutely necessary to put these tech giants in check.

There are many examples of the two-tiered monitoring system used by the Silicon Valley platforms. This isn’t just about shadow banning complaints from conservatives or for that matter targeting conservative stories on Facebook as #FakeNews through third party arbiters that they hire to regulate the platform information process. It’s what they’ve failed to do when communist governments, like China, or the cult like Iranian regime target their own populations with lies and spread hate throughout the globe.

For example, the Chinese Communist Party promoted a conspiracy theory Tweet on Thursday saying that that the U.S. military was responsible for the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan: ‘It might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,’ said Zhao Lijian, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman.”

In another instance, Google actually worked on a search engine for the Chinese Communist Party so it could surveil its people. The Intercept published an incredible story showing how Google assisted the CCP in blacklisting people and aided in gross ‘human rights’ violations. (Read more.)