Today, July 14th, is the anniversary of Bastille Day
1. " The murdering mobs that attacked the nearly empty Bastille (at the time of the siege there were only seven non-political prisoners) believed their actions were for a better France,... French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from left-wing political groups and the masses on the streets.
Ordered by the king [Louis XVI] to surrender, more than 600 Swiss guards were savagely murdered. The mobs ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses. Women, lost to all sense of shame, said one surviving witness, were committing the most indecent mutilations on the dead bodies from which they tore pieces of flesh and carried them off in triumph. Children played kickball with the guards heads. Every living thing in the Tuileries [royal palace in Paris] was butchered or thrown from the windows by the hooligans. Women were raped before being hacked to death."
Coulter, "Demonic."
2.It is more than passing interesting that liberals, whose history is that of the French Revolution, attempt to hide this by trying to portray the American Revolution as their inception.
Lets see, the American Revolution had the Minutemen, the ride of Paul Revere, the Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Bell.
a. The French Revolution is identified by the Great Fear, the storming of the Bastille, the food riots, the march on Versailles, the Day of the Daggers, the de-Christianization campaign, the September Massacres, the beheading of Louis XVI, the beheading of Marie Antoinette, the Reign of Terror, then the guillotining of one revolutionary after another, until Robespierre got the national razor. That is, not including various lynchings, assassinations, insurrections .this was the four-year period known as the French Revolution.
b. Yes, just as classical liberals, or what would be called conservatives today, are heir to the American Revolution, liberals can trace their provenance to Rousseau, and St. Just!
3. For Rousseau, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed that the general will of the people had to be correct, because it was the general will, the true interest of what everyone wants whether they realize it or not, and he determined the general will, so, anyone who deviated from same deserved no rights!
a. Although he had written a constitution, it became malleable for Robespierre: How did Robespierre actually interpret these principles? He said: [W]e must exterminate all our enemies with the law in our hands; the Declaration of Rights offers no safeguard to conspirators; the suspicions of enlightened patriotism might offer a better guide than formal rules of evidence. Notice the echo in the actions of the early Progressives who suggested that the US Constitution may be shed, like a garment. http://www.nationalaffairs.com/docl...hvsthefrenchenlightmentgertrudehimmelfarb.pdf
Could there be a better description of the collective totalitarian statist?
4. Of course, a minor difference that the astute might notice is that Americas documents did win freedom and individual rights, and Frances Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen led to bestial savagery, followed by Napoleons dictatorship, followed by another monarchy, and finally something resembling an actual republic some 80 years later.
5. And just once more, the difference between the two revolution, mirroring the difference between liberals and conservatives?
With the Jacobins in control, the de-Christianization campaign kicked into high gear. Inspired by Rousseaus idea of the religion civile, the revolution sought to completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state. To honor reason and fulfill the promise of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen that no one may be questioned about his opinions, including his religious views,
Except that Catholic priests were forced to stand before the revolutionary clubs and take oaths to Frances new humanocentric religion, the Cult of Reason .
Revolutionaries smashed church art and statues.
6. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian.
52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians. David Limbaugh
Believers in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or, as they would be known today, an extremist Fundementalist hate group.
From Coulters best seller, Demonic .
So, to those of the Liberal persuasion, parry like its 1789!
Happy anniversary!!!
1. " The murdering mobs that attacked the nearly empty Bastille (at the time of the siege there were only seven non-political prisoners) believed their actions were for a better France,... French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from left-wing political groups and the masses on the streets.
Ordered by the king [Louis XVI] to surrender, more than 600 Swiss guards were savagely murdered. The mobs ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses. Women, lost to all sense of shame, said one surviving witness, were committing the most indecent mutilations on the dead bodies from which they tore pieces of flesh and carried them off in triumph. Children played kickball with the guards heads. Every living thing in the Tuileries [royal palace in Paris] was butchered or thrown from the windows by the hooligans. Women were raped before being hacked to death."
Coulter, "Demonic."
2.It is more than passing interesting that liberals, whose history is that of the French Revolution, attempt to hide this by trying to portray the American Revolution as their inception.
Lets see, the American Revolution had the Minutemen, the ride of Paul Revere, the Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Bell.
a. The French Revolution is identified by the Great Fear, the storming of the Bastille, the food riots, the march on Versailles, the Day of the Daggers, the de-Christianization campaign, the September Massacres, the beheading of Louis XVI, the beheading of Marie Antoinette, the Reign of Terror, then the guillotining of one revolutionary after another, until Robespierre got the national razor. That is, not including various lynchings, assassinations, insurrections .this was the four-year period known as the French Revolution.
b. Yes, just as classical liberals, or what would be called conservatives today, are heir to the American Revolution, liberals can trace their provenance to Rousseau, and St. Just!
3. For Rousseau, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed that the general will of the people had to be correct, because it was the general will, the true interest of what everyone wants whether they realize it or not, and he determined the general will, so, anyone who deviated from same deserved no rights!
a. Although he had written a constitution, it became malleable for Robespierre: How did Robespierre actually interpret these principles? He said: [W]e must exterminate all our enemies with the law in our hands; the Declaration of Rights offers no safeguard to conspirators; the suspicions of enlightened patriotism might offer a better guide than formal rules of evidence. Notice the echo in the actions of the early Progressives who suggested that the US Constitution may be shed, like a garment. http://www.nationalaffairs.com/docl...hvsthefrenchenlightmentgertrudehimmelfarb.pdf
Could there be a better description of the collective totalitarian statist?
4. Of course, a minor difference that the astute might notice is that Americas documents did win freedom and individual rights, and Frances Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen led to bestial savagery, followed by Napoleons dictatorship, followed by another monarchy, and finally something resembling an actual republic some 80 years later.
5. And just once more, the difference between the two revolution, mirroring the difference between liberals and conservatives?
With the Jacobins in control, the de-Christianization campaign kicked into high gear. Inspired by Rousseaus idea of the religion civile, the revolution sought to completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state. To honor reason and fulfill the promise of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen that no one may be questioned about his opinions, including his religious views,
Except that Catholic priests were forced to stand before the revolutionary clubs and take oaths to Frances new humanocentric religion, the Cult of Reason .
Revolutionaries smashed church art and statues.
6. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian.
52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians. David Limbaugh
Believers in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or, as they would be known today, an extremist Fundementalist hate group.
From Coulters best seller, Demonic .
So, to those of the Liberal persuasion, parry like its 1789!
Happy anniversary!!!
