Tea at Trianon: Thieves of Innocence

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, June 19, 2023

Thieves of Innocence

From Jennifer Hartline at The Stream:

The revolting phenomenon of “Drag” and all its public displays and political maneuvers is everywhere. Politicians are now having press conferences and photo ops with creeps in garish drag get-up. Yeah, creeps. Drag isn’t costume or art; it’s a perverse sexual fetish.

An online friend recently shared that in his rural area, a library was hosting some trans/drag person and admission to the event was tight so you could only get in if you brought a child with you. Why does an adult male in freakish, sexually-provocative garb demand an audience of children? Because drag is a predatory beast.

Since when is it normal, good, or safe for a little girl to crawl on the belly of a strange man dressed in drag? Or for a little girl to have a man expose his penis to her while he grinds his hips just inches from her face? Should little girls be taught how to dance suggestively in front of adults who give her dollar bills for her “performance”? In a sane society, such perverts would be lucky to fall into the hands of police. Not so long ago, mothers would never have allowed open predators near their kids, but astonishingly, today moms and dads are clapping along as their children are feasted upon by degenerates. (Read more.)