Tea at Trianon: In Defense of Moms for Liberty

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

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

In Defense of Moms for Liberty

From The Easton Gazette:

Our local chapter has scheduled and will offer an opportunity to ALL school board candidates to meet voters and answer questions in a forum in the fall closer to the election. Invitations will be sent to ALL candidates prior to that event. Being closer to the election will allow voters to get an idea of who candidates are right before voting. This makes for a more accurate, up to date view of what the candidates believe.
Mr. Johnson, who I suppose is pretending to share facts about Moms for Liberty, is wrong and biased in his portrayal of our group. He says we are controversial. I guess when you advocate for parents instead of unions and special interest groups, you are called controversial.
As Mr. Johnson picks descriptors of Moms for Liberty, he uses biased, disproven descriptions from the Associated Press and an extremely biased liberal politics professor from Virginia. These descriptions don’t address the reality that Moms for Liberty supports parental rights which allow parents a seat at the decision-making table for the educational, medical, and mental health decisions made regarding their children. This is our main mission.
Parental rights mean allowing parents the right to keep their children from being exposed to pornographic materials in school, taught racist doctrine, forced to be exposed to the opposite gender in bathrooms/locker rooms, or encouraged to undertake drastic hormone blocking treatments and mutilation of their bodies without parental knowledge or permission and without informed consent of the horrific side effects and lifetime disabilities. Moms for Liberty is dedicated to helping ALL parents be aware of what is happening in the schools so they can assert their rights in the educational decision-making process.
Attendance at one of our meetings might have helped Mr. Johnson see or hear that for himself. He could have met our members, some of whom are local and state officials and talked to them about their views. Instead, he relied on third party, biased opinions which portray us as a divisive group who undermines local governing bodies and Democracy. (Read more.)