Tea at Trianon: Judicial Coup

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

Friday, March 21, 2025

Judicial Coup

From Tierney's Real News:

So, Trump’s plan bypassed Maduro’s nonsense and involved sending the TdA gangsters to El Salvador’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), under an agreement with President Nayib Bukele, who accepted them for a fee, reportedly $6 million for 300 migrants over a year. If America were to keep the illegal alien gangsters here on American soil - instead of deporting them - the cost to American taxpayers would be over $200 million, not $6 million.
So far, the illegal alien TdA gang members have been arrested hundreds of times in the US - for crimes including drug trafficking, human trafficking, sexual assault, terrorism, theft, murder, attempted murder and kidnapping. The murder victims so far include 22-year old Laken Riley of Georgia, 33-year old Arneaud-Petit in Texas, a retired police officer in Florida and the attempted murder of 2 New York police officers.
Tren de Aragua began in the early 2010s in Tocorón prison, located in Venezuela’s Aragua state, about 80 miles southwest of Caracas. It emerged under the leadership of “Niño Guerrero” who was imprisoned in 2005 for murdering a police officer.
By 2014, Guerrero and his associates had transformed the gang into a powerful “megabanda” within the prison. Under the “pran” system - where crime bosses run prisons with Maduro’s approval - Tren de Aragua turned Tocorón into a criminal headquarters, complete with a zoo, nightclub, and pool, funded by extortion, drug trafficking, and kidnappings.
In other words, the Communist dictator of Venezuela let TdA run the prison and live like Kings within it.
In September 2023, Maduro’s forces allegedly raided Tocorón with 11,000 troops, but Guerrero and key leaders escaped, possibly tipped off, and the gang’s operations have continued unabated across borders, including into the U.S. (Read more.)