Tea at Trianon: Child Protection Emergency

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

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Child Protection Emergency

From The Chesapeake Observer:

Ballot Question # 1 for Maryland voters in the upcoming November general election will terminate, if passed, parental rights. Drafters of this Constitutional Amendment hid this fact by calling it the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.” This amendment does nothing to expand, protect, or improve any reproductive rights or treatments for adults. What this amendment actually does is empower the government to override parental rights and to do “gender transitions” on young children without parent knowledge or consent. By clever design this constitutional amendment avoids using the word “adult” and uses the word” individual” so that this specifically targets children of any age and is designed to destroy parent rights.

If we voters do not vote against and defeat Ballot Question # 1, then any anxious, stressed, or confused child could mention to a “provider” questions about their gender and that “provider” (who does not need to be a doctor or psychologist and does not even need to be licensed) could then activate the “gender transition” process without parental notification or consent. Children who currently cannot legally be given aspirins or vitamins without their parents’ consent would be able to get “sex change” drugs and permanent “sex change” genital mutilation surgeries initiated through school clinics or any “provider” without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

There will be nothing that a parent can do to stop it. Parents, Families or others who risk rescuing children from this fate will be considered criminals. Parents can lose custody of their children because they will be violating this new right. Similar anti-parent laws are now the law in California, Michigan, Ohio and Vermont, and 10 other states are proposing similar legislation. This crisis is not hypothetical, parents who opposed government’s and provider’s decision to “gender transition” their children are currently losing custody of their children. (Read more.)