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You Say You Want a Revolution? Protests & riots are spreading around the world.
The Daily Beast ^ | June 23, 2013 | Christopher Dickey

Posted on 06/23/2013 8:39:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Not long before he went to the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month and put a pistol to his head and killed himself, the French historian Dominique Venner was contemplating the contagion of revolt that occasionally sweeps around the globe like a pandemic. “How are revolutions born?” he asked.

Despite Venner’s radical right-wing background the principles he listed in a blog post were not so much ideological as sociological. And as we look at the tumult in the streets from Brazil to Turkey; the ferocious politics of post-uprising Egypt and the sucking wound of the Syrian civil war, I’m struck by a maxim in Venner’s essay that’s so floridly French, it’s hard to utter, unless you’re sitting at Café de Flore in Paris with a cup of espresso and a Gauloises. “The effervescence,” Venner wrote, “is not the revolution.”

Effervescence may mean fizz as in English but in French it also means excitement or turmoil, and effervescence often wells up when a regime—often caught completely by surprise—suddenly has to face several different conflicts.

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The Tea Party in the United States still operates within the system, but its base is full of fizz and is a political force. The Occupy movement on the left looks anemic by comparison. The huge protests in France over the last few months were largely the work of Catholic organizers and a loose constellation of conservative forces opposed to gay marriage, gay adoption—and just about anything else proposed by the current Socialist government in Paris. The most intense revolutionary rhetoric across Europe right now is on the far, far right, with the rise of a crypto-fascist party in Greece the most conspicuous example.(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: arabspring; gaymarriage; occupy; teaparty
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1 posted on 06/23/2013 8:39:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are afraid.


2 posted on 06/23/2013 8:50:12 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they want MORE government - a higher gauge of steel chain.


3 posted on 06/23/2013 9:05:03 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: deadrock

Tea Party being the exception.


4 posted on 06/23/2013 9:05:53 PM PDT by deadrock
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I don’t know...the riots in Cyrus were non-ideological. They had their Cypriot bank accounts frozen by European banksters so they protested.

The rioters in Iceland said “No” to repaying foreign debt.

The rioters in Greece said “more free handouts or else we turn violent.”

The Turks are rioting about the government closing a park.

The French are rioting against gay marriage.


5 posted on 06/23/2013 9:11:40 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

... as Obama continues to destroy America, he is also taking down western economies..... and the hardest hit, requiring trade are the developing economies.

Obama and his minions are going to usher out order, stability and structure and greet global calamity and the things world wars are made of.

As he marginalizes America, he is whacking everyone. His whole crew of idiots has not thought this through. They are just bitter anti white fools.


6 posted on 06/23/2013 9:11:51 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
China is watching all of this with a very keen eye.

Beijing fears sparking its own French revolution

7 posted on 06/23/2013 9:17:16 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: himno hero
The big question is “will the model be the French revolution...guillotines and all?
8 posted on 06/23/2013 9:19:08 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Venner’s radical right-wing background

OK, so this is Europe...that means he's a Nazi.

9 posted on 06/23/2013 9:19:32 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: himno hero

... as Obama continues to destroy America, he is also taking down western economies..... and the hardest hit, requiring trade are the developing economies.

Obama and his minions are going to usher out order, stability and structure and greet global calamity and the things world wars are made of.

As he marginalizes America, he is whacking everyone. His whole crew of idiots has not thought this through. They are just bitter anti white fools.

well, I wouldn’t quite say anti white considering some of his architechs are guys like david axlerod and rahm Emanuel. but, they being jewish, maybe their against any white Christians.


10 posted on 06/23/2013 9:20:32 PM PDT by willywill
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To: himno hero
I was having a conversation recently with a friend who is French. She's a very sweet person, and we hadn't seen each other for years. The conversation turned briefly to France's socialist government and taxes. She defended the taxes, saying that there the wide socioeconomic disparities require those that make more to pay ‘a bit more’.

My point is that this reasoning, which essentially reflects the mantra the left uses everywhere, is certainly designed to sound reasonable and based in humanity and charity. Although we know this isn't the case, and that this road leads to a suppression of the human spirit and the incarceration of hope, ambition, and self-determinism, it nonetheless sells with lots of people.

That said, it is crucial that we respond to this message with the truth, and to do it in a way that gives a message of hope, and true human compassion - not the self-serving rhetoric spewed by the narcissistic leaders who ubiquitously populate the leadership of the left. In short, we have to neutralize their propaganda. It's essential.

11 posted on 06/23/2013 9:24:38 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: ogen hal

No big question.....Obama is at root a muslim. that is what he knows, understands and loves.

What is that word? Caliphate? From the GHAZI in the White House?

When he hands over the world to the muslims, it will not be pretty..... for a long, l o n g time.


12 posted on 06/23/2013 9:25:08 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: willywill; himno hero

You can be white and be anti-white. I see articles by people like that all the time.


13 posted on 06/23/2013 9:46:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"Those aren't riots ... that's just life happenin'!"


14 posted on 06/23/2013 9:53:50 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: ogen hal
The big question is “will the model be the French revolution...guillotines and all?

I think every town in America needs to be busy constructing its own gallows. We can figure out what to do with them a bit later, but I'm sure it will become obvious.

15 posted on 06/23/2013 9:56:07 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
Obama will likely appoint you anyhow...


16 posted on 06/23/2013 10:02:15 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You Say You Want a Revolution?”

It’s in my nightly prayer...


17 posted on 06/23/2013 10:04:36 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe the title is from a Beatles song “Revolution” or maybe it is coincidence.

Anyway, the Beatles appear to be capitalists and tea partiers at one time. Who Knew ?

The lyrics:

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We’d all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well you know
We’d all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright [x3]

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We’d all want to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We’re all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you’ll have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright [x4]

You say you’ll change the constitution
Well you know
We’d all love to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know know it’s gonna be alright [x3]


18 posted on 06/23/2013 10:08:40 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: OrangeHoof

Revolution - The Beatles

19 posted on 06/23/2013 10:09:59 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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20 posted on 06/23/2013 11:57:36 PM PDT by Bon mots
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