Tea at Trianon: Maryland Once Again Votes Against Parental Rights

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, February 26, 2024

Maryland Once Again Votes Against Parental Rights

From The Easton Gazette:

It's becoming a daily occurrence in the Maryland State Legislature. Bills are proposed that support parental rights and they barely make it out of committee. Bills are proposed that demolish parental rights and they are overwhelmingly passed along party lines, proving once again that the Democrat majority in the House and Senate do NOT support the rights of parents to have a say in the lives and education of their children.

The usual suspects are always the ones at the forefront against parents. Vanessa Atterbeary, Democrat from Howard County, seems to have designated herself as "she who will be obeyed." She and her cohorts view the issue of parental rights as more of a power play than anything else. After all, she keeps reminding us that she has children too, and that she understands what parents go through. But, she keeps demanding that parents must defer to the state when it comes to raising and educating their children. She wants the State, and people like her, to have all the power.

She's a hypocrite. Vanessa Atterbeary will never have to fight for the right to direct the upbringing or education of HER children regardless of the law. No school, no teacher would ever go up against a powerful State Delegate. Only the average citizen will have to deal with that and, according to the state, lose every time.

But, like most Marxist Progressives, being a hypocrite is fine with her as long as she gets to be in charge. (Read more.)