Posted on 07/15/2020 5:56:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
This Tuesday, the French celebrated Bastille Day, the mob attack on a Parisian prison that has come to symbolize the French Revolution, a period of massive violence that produced nothing other than a lot of dead Frenchmen. Their revolution was the screech of a mob, much as we are seeing in several of our own cities and towns today. So let’s review this absurdly celebrated event.
As is common with mob violence the storming of the Bastille was set off by a rumor. People began to whisper that the impotent, indecisive king, Louis XVI, was going to attack the new legislative body, the National Assembly.
— Hands Up! Don’t Shoot! (Even Eric Holder’s Justice Department found that claim was a lie — after multiple millions in property damage and human suffering.)
— Mass protests over police killing an innocent black man in Detroit! (Turns out, Hakim Littleton was firing a gun at them.)
— Althea Bernstein’s face was burned with lighter fluid and a match thrown at her by four “classic Wisconsin frat boys“! ((After initial flood-the-zone coverage, that story sure disappeared fast.)
In need of weapons to defend themselves from the imaginary attack, on the morning of July 14, 1789, about 60,000 French citizens armed with pikes and axes assembled at Les Invalides, a barracks for aging soldiers, to demand weapons and ammunition.
— As Sens. Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio can explain to you, antifa carry rocks, incendiary devices and bicycle locks only to defend themselves from “fascists.”
Eventually, the mob broke through the gate of Les Invalides and ransacked the building, seizing 10 cannon and 28,000 muskets. But no ammunition. So they headed for the Bastille, which had once been a fortress.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Liberalism has been a mental disorder throughout the centuries.
To be fair the French peasants did not live nearly as well as the worst off here.
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This is absolutely fantastic what an article it is written so brilliantly just wonderful
Ha! Even royalty then did not live as well as the American poor do now. No French king had a home, heat and air conditioning, food stamps, a color TV, etc. There is no true poverty in the US.
The notion that people go hungry in this country is bogus, unless they are addicts, mentally ill, or being abused/neglected by their parents.
A lot of the people marching on the Bastille were stalled middle class. Doctors, lawyers...
Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode by
And we’re marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, o choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise.
Lessons taught, but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast
For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine – claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn’t all that money buys
— Neil Peart
Agreed
It didn't work out too well for them and it's working even worse for us.
No European king ever dreamed of an iPhone, with all of the world’s knowledge at one’s fingertips, and the ability to call anyone literally anywhere on the planet, essentially for free.
There is quite literally no comparison. We live amongst a society of fools who do not know how wealthy they are compared to all of human history
Some Francophile I’ve known over the years even repeat the story that there were move people living there. Parts of the Bastille were being used as luxury condos.
i meant more people.
This is a bit off topic, but I’m having a helluva time reading Coulter’s new teensy-weensy artsy-fartsy typeface on my ‘Droid phone. Actually, I’ve given up. Anybody else?
“This is a bit off topic, but I’m having a helluva time reading Coulter’s new teensy-weensy artsy-fartsy typeface on my ‘Droid phone. Actually, I’ve given up. Anybody else?”
I almost always copy articles to the clipboard, then paste them into Word. I can then save to hdd and adjust the font for easy reading.
Ah yes, the overrated French Revolution.
What a bunch of sick brutes.
As Margaret Thatcher once said, the results of the French Revolution were two fold; a pile of headless corpses and a tyrant ruling France.
the French Revolution, a period of massive violence that produced nothing other than a lot of dead Frenchmen.
Ann you ignorant ...
July 14 is a fun day to be in France :)
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