Tea at Trianon: Demanding Answers

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

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Demanding Answers

From American Greatness:

In August of 2021, Austin issued a directive to make COVID “vaccines” mandatory for all service members. A total of 19,460 members of the U.S. military have refused the now thoroughly discredited jabs. Technician Second Class Zach Loesch is one of 2,632 Coast Guard members who remain unvaccinated.

Biden called Loesch and several other members of the Coast Guard by phone last week, to “personally thank” them for their “heroic work” in Florida saving lives.

During the hurricane, Loesch kicked through a wall to rescue a 94-year-old disabled woman and her husband, and then hoisted them and her wheelchair into a helicopter, among other heroic feats. (Read more.)