Tea at Trianon: Vermont Allows Illegal Aliens to Vote

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, August 24, 2024

Vermont Allows Illegal Aliens to Vote

From The Right Flank:

Vermont is giving illegal immigrants the right to vote. Even a single vote from an illegal immigrant constitutes foreign interference in domestic elections. To be more specific, the Vermont cities of Burlington, Montpelier and Winooski allow illegal aliens to vote.
Burlington is the largest city in the state. Concerned citizens are worried that allowing illegal aliens to vote on school board elections and also on city education budgets will warp outcomes. Though some illegal aliens have kids enrolled in the city school systems, others do not.
This is a matter of right versus wrong. Foreigners who have not gone through the proper legal channels to obtain United States citizenship should not have the power to decide local elections or federal elections. The nation and many cities are evenly split down the middle, 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats.
A single vote has the potential to cause the power pendulum to swing firmly to the political right or left. (Read more.)