Happy France Day!
Posted on 07/14/2010 12:42:41 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
In honor of this Bastille Day, I send warmest wishes to the people of France. May you continue to inspire the world with your efforts to build a brighter future for us all.
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But it’s the 14th July today! You mean the State Dept actually did something in time and on time!?
NO THANKS Missis CLINTON.
Keep your fake but enlightening whishes!
As a french i consider, like many others inside and outside that country,that this day is a sad day and that the french revolution has been a bloody terrorist revolution.
Americans should not be misled about that ! Read “Reflexion on the french Revolution” by Edmund Burke.
After many mass slaughters , killings including women and children priests and religious, after destructions of churches....what bright and wonderfull things did France bring to the world Missis Clinton?
France gave Napoleon Bonaparte to Europe and true europeans,those who still know history, remember that very well!
And everyone with a little education knows that the french “revolution” inspired the russian revolution....
So no thanks Missis Clinton for your whishes but it says a lot about the way you and Barack Hussein Obama are understanding history and the way to make politic!
The past is not passed
Wow
I disagree. Tumbril carts and guillotines can be good things.
There is a saying about how a few bad pommes spoil the bunch
Call me slothful, if you will
Why are Berliners always starting flame wars with Parisians
Why are Berliners always starting flame wars with Parisians
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Because they couldn’t have a civil war from Charlemagne until now.
Not to mention Napoleon...the Emporer who replaced a King!!
The French Revolution, begun in the name of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity led directly to The Terror.
It has been the blueprint for every socialist revolution ever since: a heady cocktail of lies to the people, and bloody death for anyone who believes in private property and the rights of man.
Of course Hillary admires it - we should despise it and her.
Burke’s writings are magnificent.
As to the French revolution, I agree that it was brutal, barbarous and savage. Few countries are lucky enough to enjoy a smooth transition to a qualified leadership structure as in the United States. As to the Russian revolution being modelled on or similar to the Bolshevik, werll of course. Both revolutions were revolting but occurred in similar circumstances: crap leadership, starving and economically downtrodden peasants and rulers so arriogant they’d give Simon cowell a run for his money.
The sad thing is the Russian one might have been avoidable had the Czars been willing to learn from history and study the causes of the French revolution to avoid a similar fate and the horrors that accompanied it.
I have no truck for the way either revolution was carried out and the rivers/oceans of blood involved, but the pre-rebellion rulers were the dancing masters who brought it to life through their gross misrule. The people have a right to rebel - what these revolutions teach is is that it can be worse to rebel when you do not have an agreed leadership structure for the replacement, but are simply made up of brief allies against the ruler - that leads to the post-coup purges and atrocities in an escalating wave....
Interesting observation. However, we’d like to borrow one of your guillotines for the upcoming post-impeachment trials.
History is replete with what appear in retrospect to be errors. In the third quarter of XVIII century the ideas of the French Revolution might have seemed reasonable and appealing. It was obvious even to the actors that the methods were barbaric, however. Nor was Enlightenment necessary to know that the appeal to the most base in people cannot lead to anything constructive. (The words of a Russian poet come to mind, to wit: "The power raised in blood shall perish in blood").
Whereas some actors of the French Revolution might have pleaded ignorance, I cannot find an excuse for the present-day celebration of barbarism. That revolution gave us socialism, which in turn led to the slaughter of millions regardless of what form that socialism took: Marxist-Leninist in Russia, Nazi in Germany, Maoist in China, Pol-potist in Cambodia...
French people have many reasons to be proud, but the Revolution was not one of them. Thank you again for your thoughtful and informed post, Ulysse.
Best wishes and regards, TQ.
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