Tea at Trianon: Leninism 4.0

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

Monday, January 18, 2021

Leninism 4.0

From The Epoch Times:

Lindsay said the people who broke into the Capitol building on Jan. 6 might have had the “intention of some kind of insurrection,” but that video footage showed that they were “wandering around being interviewed by journalists” and didn’t have a plan of action. He doesn’t think President Donald Trump incited violence there and that the narrative that he did doesn’t add up.

He warned against the “consensus view” built up on what happened at the Capitol and a “pseudo-reality” that misleads people. “Why is everything so fractured? Why is everything so polarized? We actually live in a world, at the moment, where we have two consensus views,” Lindsay said. (Read more.)

From Real Clear Politics:

This is an extension to what we've seen for the past four years where the criminal justice system was wielded as a weapon against people. There was no accountability at all for anything that happened and the irony here is that you had a real seditious conspiracy that was carried out against Donald Trump and his administration, even before he got into office and for the entire time that he was in office. And unfortunately, there has been nothing out of the Justice Department and there is no deterrent now because many of the people who were involved in that, who were guilty of being in a real conspiracy to undermine the constitution and the government, they got away with it, they acted with impunity and they are about to have real power, control of the House, control of the Senate and the reticence that was shown on behalf of the Justice Department in the last few years, I wouldn't expect to see that going forward.

Retribution and vengeance is all over social media, it's all over the media itself, it's all over Capitol Hill today and when they have the power to use the criminal justice system to exact retribution - look out. They've already laid the groundwork, there's a move to have a new war on terror, but this one a domestic one against your own people, looking inwards. Against basically anyone who is a Trump supporter and who is white. And if you own a gun, you're on the top of the list. What they don't want to talk about, the fact that more than 70% of this country is still white. So you're talking about an awful lot of people who are being accused of being terrorists just for their political views. (Read more.)

From The National Pulse:

Screenshots from a Discord chat channel allegedly hosted by John Sullivan – a far-left, anti-Trump activist who appears to have incited violence at the U.S. Capitol while posing as a journalist – reveal he and his followers infiltrated the January 6th Save America March in Washington, D.C. The unearthed screenshots follow Sullivan’s arrest for his role in the Capitol riot, which included calls to violence such as “we gotta get this shit burned” and “it’s our house motherf*ckers,” an affidavit can reveal. (Read more.)

From Daily Sabah:

A Florida man and an ex-member of the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian affiliate, the YPG, was arrested Friday and charged with trying to organize an armed response to pro-President Donald Trump protesters expected at the state Capitol on Sunday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

Daniel Baker of Tallahassee was using social media to recruit people in a plot to create a circle around protesters and trap them in the Capitol, according to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent. The court document describes a series of threats of violence and a prediction of civil war. Baker is described as anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists and anti-police.
“Extremists intent on violence from either end of the political and social spectrums must be stopped, and they will be stopped,” said U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe in a news release.

Baker was kicked out of the Army in 2007 after going AWOL before being deployed to Iraq. He joined the YPG in 2017 and fought in Syria against the Daesh terrorist group. He claimed on social media that he was “a trained sniper for the YPG,” according to the Attorney’s Office. The office described the YPG as a sub-affiliate of the PKK, “which is designated by the United States government as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
In its more than 40-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK – also listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and the European Union – has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women and children. The U.S. has primarily partnered with the YPG/PKK in northeastern Syria in the fight against Daesh. Turkey strongly opposes the YPG/PKK’s presence in northern Syria, which has been a major sticking point in strained Turkey-U.S. relations. The U.S. has provided military training and thousands of truckloads of weaponry to the terrorist group, despite its NATO ally’s security concerns. (Read more.)