Hmm. That sound remarkably like “The DOJ will threaten anyone who denies, refutes or even questions the results of the 2020 elections….”

(Well, we may not be there quite yet, not quite—though look at what was done to Giuliani; and look how the media/infotech giants censor the news and manipulate their search engines. Nonetheless, this appears to be the trajectory…if the party that stole those elections insist on getting their way.)

Oh and one can totally understand them. And their POV. (And their abject fear.)

Totally. (As in totalitarianly…)

“Remind anyone else of a current detention facility?” OlderandWheezier

Indeed. The democrats have created an American Bastille. A veritable dungeon, where due process is nonexistent.

And but for a few, Congress is silent…

Now, that was an insurrection.”

Following up on Neo’s thread from July 12 about LEGO crimes, I wondered whether anyone has ever made a LEGO model of the Bastille and the 1789 insurrection. Yep, someone did– in 1999. You can see the model, complete with mob action, here: http://carneycastle.com/Bastille/

The author has even provided a layout guide if you want to build your own LEGO Bastille.

Though, like everyone else, I had been long familiar with the tune, I had never looked at the translated lyrics before. Apparently it was written to rouse the early Revolutionary forces to repel Prussian and Austrian troops invading to restore the old regime, or at least limit the spread of revolution.

I had never realized how relatively bloodthirsty the lyrics were compared to “Amber waves of grain”, “Land of the Pilgrim’s pride”, or even “bombs bursting in air”.

It is the essence of course of the revolutionary mentality to know – or to recognize, anyway – no limits; neither God’s, nor anyone else’s. The unfettered or undisciplined general will [however conceived or determined] is sovereign and accountable to no one and to no thing other than itself. Progress or “evolution” is imagined as tidying up the rest.

It’s really the moral essence of progressivism as well.

If the Marquis de Sade hadn’t been transferred to an insane asylum at Charenton on July 4, 1789, he would have been the eighth prisoner present when the mob stormed the Bastille. He was transferred to the asylum because he had been inciting the crowd gathered around the prison in the early days of July by shouting that the authorities were killing the prisoners.

On July 14, 2016, thousands gathered along the seafront of Nice, France to celebrate Bastille Day—the country’s independence holiday. The mood turned from joy to horror, when a white truck barreled through a pedestrian-filled closed street. In the end, 86 were dead, including 10 children, and over 400 spectators were left injured.