Tea at Trianon: Treating Concerned Parents Like ‘Domestic Terrorists’

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

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Treating Concerned Parents Like ‘Domestic Terrorists’

From Trending Politics:

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s directive for the FBI to “use its authority” to treat concerned parents at school board meetings like domestic terrorist threats caught the bureau offguard, according to new revelations from America First Legal.
“On October 7, 2021, following the unprecedented memorandum – AFL requested the DOJ Office of Inspector General investigate ‘whether the Attorney General’s Memorandum was formulated and issued based on improper considerations’,” AFL noted. “AFL highlighted serious irregularities, including evidence demonstrating that the memorandum’s stated justification was a fabricated pretext by the Biden White House to chill parents’ speech and political action,” the Twitter thread announcement added. “Yesterday, AFL received a FOIA production from the FBI in response to a request for records made 18 months earlier,” AFL said Thursday afternoon. “This 2-page production paints a stunning picture of the internal conversations circulating at the DOJ on the day the unprecedented memo was issued.” (Read more.)

Why is so much rage directed at Christians? Tucker Carlson explains, HERE.