THERE ARE DAYS WHEN ONE IS EVEN PROUDER OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM THAN OTHERS! THIS MORNING WHEN I LEARNED THAT A DEMONSTRATOR FROM THE "MANIF POUR TOUS" HAD NOT ONLY BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON, TWO OF THEM WITHOUT PAROLE, BUT ABOVE ALL PLACED UNDER A COMMITTAL ORDER AND INCARCERATED AT FLEURY-M'eROGIS, TEARS CAME TO MY EYES, SO RELIEVED AND HAPPY WAS I. THANK YOU, MONSIEUR HOLLANDE, THANK YOU MME TAUBIRA, THANK YOU, MONSIEUR VALLS, THANK YOU LEFT, FOR HAVING PREVENTED A DANGEROUS FASCIST FROM OPPOSING THE INEXORABLE MARCH OF PROGRESS AND SOCIAL ADVANCES!
OK. I WON'T LINGER TOO LONG OVER THIS JUDICIAL MASQUERADE, OR INDULGE IN COMPARISONS. IT MIGHT MAKE ME ITCH FOR AN INSURRECTION! AND THEN AGAIN, THIS SURREAL CONVICTION HAS PERHAPS THE MERIT OF FINALLY OPENING THE EYES OF THOSE AMONG OUR FELLOW CITIZENS WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE LEFTISTS, BECAUSE IT IS HAMMERED INTO THEM, AND HAS BEEN HAMMERED INTO THEM FOR EONS, THAT THE LEFT MEANS JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY FOR EVERYBODY.
NO, MY POOR FRIENDS, SOCIALISM IS NOT "L'^ILE AUX ENFANTS" AND FRANcOIS HOLLANDE IS NOT CASIMIR.
NOTE: A REFERENCE TO A CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SERIES WHERE CASIMIR IS THE NAIVE AND GENEROUS DINOSAUR.
SOCIALISM, THE ONE, THE ONLY, IS STALIN, MAO, THE KHMER ROUGE, CASTRO, CHE, AND ALL THOSE HUMANISTS WITH MORE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS THAN HITLER AND... AND..., IN FACT, HOW MANY OTHER FASCIST-NAZI REGIMES SINCE HITLER? AND EVERYTHING THEY'VE BEEN TELLING US FOR DECADES: THAT STALINISM, MAOISM, THE KHMER ROUGE WERE HISTORICAL ACCIDENTS, REGIMES HIGHJACKED BY AUTOCRATS, BUT THAT SOCIALISM REMAINS MORE THAN EVER THE RADIANT FUTURE OF HUMANITY, IS FALSE, TOTALLY FALSE! DICTATORSHIP OF THOUGHT IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, IT IS THE DNA OF THE LEFT! THE LEFT IN POWER, BY ITS VERY ESSENCE, IS THE REIGN OF TOTALITARIANISM, OF ONE-WAY THOUGHT, AND OF THE "SO-CALLED GOOD", IMPOSED AND FORCED ON US DICTATORIALLY!
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO GOVERN US ARE SO CONVINCED THAT THEY INCARNATE MORALITY, VIRTUE, SOCIAL PROGRESS, HUMANITARIAN COMPASSION, IN SHORT, THE GOOD WITH A CAPITAL "G", THAT FOR THEM ANY THINKING THAT DEVIATES FROM THEIR OWN MUST BE REACTIONARY, EVIL, UNWORTHY, AND IN A WORD, "FASCIST"! YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE LEFT'S VALUES (WHAT VALUES, ONE WONDERS?), YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO BE A CENTRIST, OR TO BE ON THE LEFT OF THE RIGHT? AND IN ADDITION, YOU MAKE EVERYTHING WORSE FOR YOURSELF BY BEING AN ETHNIC FRENCHMAN, A CATHOLIC AND A WHITE! YOU HAVE LESS OF A LEGITIMATE RIGHT TO EXIST THAN A COCKROACH....
AND THIS IS WHY YOU WILL NEVER HEAR AN AUTHENTIC SOCIALIST UTTER THE WORD "FREEDOM": BECAUSE FOR A SOCIALIST, LIBERATING THOUGHT MEANS LIBERATING THE FORCES OF EVIL, OF WHICH "INJUSTICE" AND "INEQUALITY" ARE THE PRIMARY SYMBOLS. AND THIS IS WHY THERE HAS NEVER BEEN IN HISTORY A SINGLE SOCIALIST REGIME THAT DID NOT FINISH IN GULAGS, LAOGAI, AND THOUGHT POLICE - THE OPPOSITE OF A FREE COUNTRY. AND THIS IS, KEEPING THE PROPORTIONS, THE IDYLLIC WORLD BEING CONSTRUCTED SANCTIMONIOUSLY FOR US BY OUR PRESIDENT, ABOUT WHOM THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND SAY HE HAS NO DIRECTION! OF COURSE WE DON'T HAVE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, WITH THEIR BARBED WIRE FENCES AND THEIR LOOKOUTS, BUT THE GULAG OF THOUGHT DOES INDEED EXIST WITH ITS POLICE, ITS JUSTICE AND ITS ZEALOTS, AND IT IS EVERYWHERE. WE HAVE PAID A PRICE LEARNING THIS, AT "NOTRE JOURNAL".
YOU THINK I'M EXAGGERATING? THAT'S WHAT THE CAMBODIANS THOUGHT WHEN THE KHMER ROUGE ENTERED PHNOM PENH.
NOTE: THE LAOGAI ARE CHINESE WORK CAMPS. READ ABOUT THEM AT WIKIPEDIA. THE PARAGRAPH ON DISEASES AND PESTS IS HORRIFIC.
AS FOR HIS REFERENCE TO THE PRICE PAID BY THOSE AT "NOTRE JOURNAL", I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE MEANS, EXCEPT POSSIBLY THEY HAVE BEEN HARASSED OR THREATENED BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WRITE, LIKE MANY PATRIOTIC WEBSITES.
ONE" NOTRE JOURNAL" READER BLAMES THE FRENCH THEMSELVES WHO HAVE BECOME RICH AND COMFORTABLE IN THEIR SMALL VILLAGES AND TOWNS, WHO LIVE A LIFE OF RELATIVE EASE IN RETIREMENT, WHO WATCH TV ALL DAY LONG, BLISSFULLY UNCONCERNED ABOUT (THOUGH AWARE OF) THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES THAT WILL SOON FALL. ANOTHER READER PICKS UP ON THIS IDEA AND NOTES THE ROMANTIC VISION THE FRENCH HAVE OF THE 1789 REVOLUTION:
- I HAVE ALREADY COMMENTED HERE THAT ALL DICTATORS, WHETHER COMMUNIST OR NAZI, HAVE SAID AND WRITTEN THAT THEIR FIRST SOURCE OF INSPIRATION WAS THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, PARTICULARLY THE REIGN OF TERROR, THAT SUPREME MEANS OF ERADICATION OF COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES. REMEMBER THE LAW OF SUSPECTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT MADE THE MERE FACT OF NOT BEING IN AGREEMENT PUNISHABLE BY THE GUILLOTINE. STALIN BECAME ECSTATIC WHENEVER HE MENTIONED IT.
NOTE: READ ABOUT THE LAW OF SUSPECTS. VERY ENLIGHTENING.
LISTEN TO THE "PHILOSOPHERS", THE "INTELLECTUALS" TALK ABOUT THE ROMANTICISM OF THE REVOLUTION. REMEMBER THE BICENTENNIAL OF 1789, WHEN THE FESTIVITIES WERE IN THE HANDS OF ONE JEANNENAY, A SON OF A GOVERNMENT MINISTER, (SO MUCH FOR DOING AWAY WITH PRIVILEGE), WHO PUBLICLY JUSTIFIED THE EXECUTION OF OPPONENTS OF THE REVOLUTION. IN THE NURSERY SCHOOL MY DAUGHTERS ATTENDED, FINE UPSTANDING TEACHERS MADE THEM SING "CA IRA", YOU KNOW - THAT INTOXICATING SONG THAT CONDONES "HANGING THE ARISTOCRATS". THAT'S RIGHT, THEY MADE LITTLE CHILDREN UNDER TEN YEARS OF AGE SING SONGS OF DEATH. TENDERLY WATCHED OVER BY A DELIGHTED TEACHING STAFF AND PARENTS, UPRIGHT RESPECTABLE FOLK, WHO WERE ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY.
SAME CAUSE, SAME EFFECT, DURING ROBERT HOSSEIN'S THEATRICAL PRODUCTION ABOUT MARIE-ANTOINETTE. AT THE END OF THE PLAY, HE ASKED THE PUBLIC TO VOTE FOR OR AGAINST THE EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. WELL, EVERY EVENING, A GOOD PART OF THE THEATERGOERS, RESPECTABLE PEOPLE, LIKE YOU AND ME, CONFIRMED THE EXECUTION.
WHICH MEANS THAT HAMMERING IT HOME ALWAYS WORKS.
NOTE: INTENSIVE PERSISTENT PROPAGANDA ALWAYS WORKS. IS HE RIGHT?
AT THE TOP, PHNOM PENH ON JANUARY 1, 1975 AFTER IT WAS BOMBED BY THE KHMER ROUGE. AN UNREAL, APOCALYPTIC SCENE. THE KHMER WOULD ENTER THE CITY ON APRIL 17. IN THE END, TWO MILLION CAMBODIANS WOULD DIE IN TERRIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES. FROM A TIME PHOTO GALLERY.
BELOW, THE QUEEN OF FRANCE IS BEHEADED. FROM HISTORY.COM.
IF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS AN INSPIRATION, SUBSEQUENT DICTATORS TOOK THE IDEA OF A REIGN OF TERROR, HONED AND PERFECTED IT, EXPANDING ITS POSSIBILITIES IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF VICTIMS IN THE MOST INHUMAN AND INHUMANE WAYS IMAGINABLE. UNLIKELY THOUGH IT MAY BE, WE CAN STILL HOPE THE FRENCH FINALLY REALIZE THAT THE PROMISE OF AN EGALITARIAN SOCIALITARIAN UTOPIA IS A PREDICTABLE JOURNEY TO A KILLING FIELD.
