Tea at Trianon: The Financial and Emotional Struggles of Being Looted

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, June 11, 2020

The Financial and Emotional Struggles of Being Looted

From the New York Post:

After this week’s looting and ransacking in Manhattan and The Bronx, Lucy Hosley went viral. The 69-year-old co-owner of the Valentine Deli was seen on a video posted to YouTube, imploring: “They tell me ‘Black Lives Matter.’ They’re lying . . . I’m black, look what you did to my store.”

Hosley told The Post’s Jane Ridley that she witnessed “around 30 young men and women overturning the shelves and causing chaos . . . They had bought cutting tools to break open the ATM and the cash register. At first I felt anger toward the looters. But I can’t let hate consume me. Many of them have been brought up in a society which believes they are worth nothing and they are acting on that. We will rebuild this store and it will serve this community again.” A GoFundMe for her store had, by Friday, raised more than $114,600. Inspired by her, other vandalized shop owners spoke out. (Read more.)

From Trending Politics:

The Daily Caller listed the 15 persons who, thus far, have lost their lives in protests. They include demonstrators and business owners, a retired police captain, family members, loved ones, and nearly all of them innocent bystanders before riots and violence found them. At the same time, though it’s no big deal to Sally Kohn because, you know, ‘buildings can be replaced,’ many structures that have been looted, burned down, or hollowed out were businesses that belonged to Americans who stuck their life savings into starting them and building them. Most of these same businesses were already under great economic stress after having been shut down as ‘non-essential’ by coronavirus stay-at-home orders not all governors and mayors followed. (Read more.)

The Stream’s John Zmirak interviewed author and teacher Timothy Gordon. The Stream reviewed Gordon’s book Rules for Retrogrades earlier this year. From The Stream:

I regret nothing. I called BLM a terrorist organization, which is an incontrovertible historical fact. It can be easily found online that the BLM is considered a Black Identity Extremist group by the FBI after one of their members was killed by police in Texas. I also made a joke about (pro-LGBT Jesuit) James Martin and BLM activists on Twitter that I don’t regret. There are outlets that are saying that I called for violence against protesters. False. I called for the lawful implementation of Second Amendment rights in the case of arsonists and violent assailants physically attacking store owners and their property. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: They do not value lives or life. This whole thing is rife with hypocrisy and only fools are fooled. Whatever the faults of our country, it is the only thing that stands between us and the failing malevolent ideologies that leave humanity bereft of any dignity. Instead of burning books, read up on the history of death propagated by them.; June 11, 2020 at 2:29:00 PM EDT