Tea at Trianon: How The Left Learned to Love The Guillotine

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

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

How The Left Learned to Love The Guillotine

From Townhall:

In recent weeks, leftist demonstrators set up a large model of a guillotine in front of the house of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in Washington, D.C. In response to the news that Bezos — the richest man in the world – earns $4,000 dollars per second, the activists camped outside Bezos’ home to demand a minimum wage of $30 per hour. And it is not only left-wing radicals in the United States who have a love affair with the guillotine. In early September, left-wing demonstrators gathered in Berlin’s Grunewald villa district. They called on residents to come out of their villas and voluntarily give up their wealth before it is too late. One speaker loudly reminded Grunewald’s homeowners not to forget what had happened to people like Marie-Antoinette and warned them not to let history repeat itself. The warnings were clear: “We can’t afford to let the moment pass us once more as history rattles established power structures. We need to start redistributing wealth today!” Famously, the French queen Marie-Antoinette was executed by guillotine. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: I believe they will not be happy until they turn our Country into a Third World Banana Republic. People like Jeff Besos have created businesses that provide jobs for numerous people.; September 17, 2020 at 11:59:00 AM EDT