Tea at Trianon: What is Raskin Hiding?

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, September 23, 2022

What is Raskin Hiding?

From Revolver:

Last week, Arizona representative Paul Gosar issued a Resolution of Inquiry demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland turn over all documents relevant to infamous Jan 6 participant and suspected federal asset Ray Epps. Representative Thomas Massie, who has been instrumental in bringing the Ray Epps scandal to national attention, led a debate in Congress yesterday on whether Merrick Garland should make the Ray Epps documents available to Congress and the American people.
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After Revolver News definitely proved that the FBI is withholding critical surveillance footage of the alleged January 6 pipe bomber planting the pipe bomb outside of the Democrat National Committee Headquarters, why aren’t the Democrats demanding the footage? Why aren’t the Democrats at all interested in uncovering the identity of the terrorist who planted a bomb right outside their own national headquarters? (Read more.)