Tea at Trianon: The CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Is Textbook Communism

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

Friday, August 6, 2021

The CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Is Textbook Communism

From The Daily Wire:

Americans may be left wondering why the federal government — specifically, an executive agency with no constitutional foundation — is capable of unilaterally suspending private property rights. They may also wonder what constitutional checks and balances exist to combat an executive agency that exceeds its mandate.
The answer to the first question? It isn’t, and it doesn’t matter. Why? Because of the answer to the second question: there are no constitutionally-prescribed means for the people to hold unelected bureaucrats accountable. Such are important worries, but — as Anthony Fauci’s ascension to deity ought to have taught us by now — we are unlikely to receive any recourse for the trampling of our rights.
Nevertheless, a third question arises. Why are landlords — many of whom belong to the middle class — being transformed before our eyes into indentured servants?
The answer to this question is not found in the constitution of the United States, but in the communism of Friedrich Engels. His Communist Confession of Faith — quite literally a catechism for people who hate God — notes that the elimination of private property is necessary for the establishment of communism:
Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists?
Answer: To organise society in such a way that every member of it can develop and use all his capabilities and powers in complete freedom and without thereby infringing the basic conditions of this society.
Question 3: How do you wish to achieve this aim?
Answer: By the elimination of private property and its replacement by community of property.
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julygirl said...: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong solutions.; August 6, 2021 at 9:03:00 PM EDT