Posted on 06/23/2020 6:16:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
he promise of bloodshed coming alongside or following shortly after is an historic certainty. The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.
WASHINGTON, DC — For millennia, King Mob has targeted societies’ icons with varied goals and to varied ends, and few things are more foreboding than his desecration of civic art. Just as the targets have ranged from rulers to clergy, from tyrants to helpless, and from the guilty to the innocent, the outcomes have ranged from victory to defeat depending on the society’s strength and will. The promise of bloodshed coming alongside or following shortly after, however, is an historic certainty. The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.
In 1790, mobs looted and pillaged Paris’s treasured Notre Dame. To the revolutionaries, the cathedral symbolized everything that was wrong with France’s history and society — a history of kings, tradition and religion, and a society beset by royal injustice and systemic inequality.
Over the next three years, the 12th-century church’s riches and artifacts were stripped, stolen, and destroyed, their remnants hidden by the faithful and sold off by the faithless. Statues of the Virgin Mary were removed and statues to the Goddess of Liberty took their place on desecrated altars.
At nearby Sainte-Chapelle, the revolution pulled the apostles from the pedestals where they had stood watch over Christ’s Crown of Thorns. The 12 statues were vandalized and buried — half so badly they are still undergoing attempts at restoration. As the destruction of religious art unfurled, priests who did not swear allegiance to the new order and those who aided them were sentenced to death.
Back at the cathedral, the revolutionary government mistook the 28 statues of the kings of ancient Judah for French kings (rich old men and all), dragging them into the public square for decapitation. Their buried heads were not rediscovered for nearly 200 years.
In the Place de Louis XV, the large statue of the square’s namesake was torn down and the plaza renamed Place de la Revolution. A guillotine was raised, and the “liberated” space would see the execution of more than 1,200 prisoners, from King Louis XVI and his wife to the executions’ ringleader himself, Maximilien Robespierre.
Seventeen hundred years before, Pliny the Younger described Emperor Domitian’s golden statues “rudely battered down, and made a sacrifice to public joy” amidst his toppling and assassination.
It was a sport and pastime to humble those [statues’] exalted heads, to make them prostrate and kiss the ground, to maul them with hammers, to hew them with hatchets, as if at every stroke blood and pain had been to follow. None was so moderate in the venting of his raptures, none so sober in his overflowing joys, but that he thought it a luscious piece of revenge to see their mangled limbs, their dissevered joints, and finally their grim and ghastly images divested of all their borrowed majesty, and thrown into the flames to be melted down into better use and service.
In the United States, mob vandalism began in 2017 with a statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier, escalating to Confederate officers and Gen. Robert E. Lee, who died a nationally recognized champion of peaceful American reconciliation. When critics, including President Donald Trump, worried the iconoclasm would continue to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, they were mocked by left-wing reporters, columnists and hosts, from the once-respected New York Times to the poncy and excitable John Oliver.
“I’ll tell you where it stops,” the Comedy Central talker yipped: “Somewhere! Any time someone asks ‘Where does it stop,’ the answers’ always f—ing somewhere. You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin. You don’t just go, ‘Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?'”
But rioters are not children with candy, and less than three years later statues of Washington and Jefferson were defaced and torn from their pedestals. The World War II Memorial to America’s actual anti-fascists was spray-painted, along with the Lincoln Memorial. A northern abolitionist boycotted in the South was splashed with blood-red paint and had a noose hung around his neck.
A relief of heroic black Union soldiers was vandalized, the hero of the Union Army was torn from his slab, and a monument to three black victims of racial violence was defiled. A statue of Saint Junípero Serra was pulled down days later, with one supporter calling for his bones to be dug up and desecrated.
Sacred religious statues depicting Christ as light-skinned “are a form of white supremacy… Tear them down,” race-baiting activist Shaun King wrote Monday afternoon. “All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down.”
On Friday, a statue of a Confederate soldier was strung up and hanged from a lamppost in a ghastly warning of things to come.
The protests are now dancing at the intersection of Hargett and Salisbury Streets as the downed confederate soldier statue hangs from a street sign nearby #raleigh pic.twitter.com/tY2LnasEIA
— Leigh Tauss (@LeighTauss) June 20, 2020
Policemen and reporters have been attacked, while mayors and journalists have defended the riots as “mostly peaceful.” When an historic church across from the White House was set ablaze, its leader welcomed the mob and decried the president. She was joined in her outreach by Washington’s Catholic archbishop, and the mayor named the street after the mob. Monday night as I write, her church has been freshly defaced and the mob has declared the mayor’s street their “autonomous zone.”
The same evening across the country, the second shooting in just days led the mayor of Seattle to announce the mob’s armed and walled “autonomous zone” would be dismantled. For the previous two weeks, the mayor had withdrawn police from the precinct station and surrounding area, ceding downtown to King Mob to victimize and terrorize small business owners and each other at will.
“Does anybody here know what happened to the people who did not get on board with the French Revolution?” a member of the mob shouted into a megaphone a week prior.
“Chopped!” the mob chanted its violent response.
A society that believes in itself builds monuments, a sick society does not, and a dying society watches as they are torn down. While Roman kings, French monks, American Tories, and Russian tsarists were unable to defeat the revolutions that first tore down their symbols, today in the United States we are simply unwilling.
Blood is already spilling, with civilian defenders, bystanders, workers, and rioters killed and seriously injured in cities all across the country. Without a committed and targeted crackdown on this disorder and its leaders, the committed and targeted killings of their opponents and critics will come next.
The increasingly violent mobs in our streets are chanting for it, and the revolts of human history have come to it every time. You can be sure the ghost of King Mob will see it done. He always does.
Bernie Bros were trending Guillotine2020 when their boy lost the Democrat nomination for a second time. They’ve even taken to hauling out guillotines at protests around the world.
They have long preached of a day when they will lynch CEOs from lamp posts.
But the alphabet media gives them a pass.
I’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well...............
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Does anyone know how that ended?
With the “revolution” killing its own along with thousands of innocents and then Napoleon.
“Does anybody here know what happened to the people who did not get on board with the French Revolution?” a member of the mob shouted into a megaphone a week prior.
“Chopped!” the mob chanted its violent response.
People already ARE being taken out by cancel culture and having their lives destroyed by being fired and ostracized from family.
Yes, it’s not much longer that the shooting war will start and you’ll note that the Democrats are completely silent AND THEREFORE COMPLICIT (by the new definition) in this coup. Of course they started #Resistance so whaddya know.
And you do not hear a peep from the Democrats that run these cities and states. So my conclusion is Democrats are not for America or the American people, they only care about illegals, protesters, and prisoners!!!!!
The headline is right. Tearing down White male statues is symbolic of what they plan to do next: eliminate Western Civilization by eliminating Western Civilized People. (After taking all their money.)
It may be a little too late. The momentum is building. They've became empowered by the media and leftist politicians. This should have been put down when the first monument was illegally toppled.
Not sure what the endgame is now. If DJT goes down, all bets are off.
The French aristocracy was inherently decadent and placed an inordinate faith in the Monarchy to protect their lives and property. American urban elites are similar and really decadent. However there are many, many well armed, rational Americans who will protect and defend.
We don’t hear much from Republicans, either.
Honestly, the desecration and defacing of these monuments makes me sick to my stomach and mad as hell with the silent GOP.
the talk of tearing down statues of “Jesus and his white mother” brings, “We’re not idolaters.” So, another one bites the dust.
Erasing Western Civilizations history and traditions has long been in the making. The “Progressives” have lost patience. They smell blood in the water.
What is next? You don’t want the answer.
In thedays just before terrorists attacked the US, they killed Ahmed Shah Masud in A’stan and destroyed an ancient and revered Buddhist statue carved into a mountain.
Silence=Violence and the Democrat Left OWNS this seditious revolution. They even accept secessionist segregationists in Seattle.
The radical Left loved the Manson Family’s revolt against Capitalist Pigs until they realized that the public did not support a bit of those murders and were painting all of the “free spirits/demons” with that same paintbrush.
Close. Most Republicans are silent and complicit. Democrats are openly supporting it.
To remind us. But unfortunately we tend to let the statue tell the story and over time the story is forgotten.
It is important that WE tell the story. I have many family stories but there are no statutes or physical reminders.
Folks, the problem is we don't’ know the stories behind the statutes. We can't tell what we don't know. Heritage is passed through generations by stories, not the statue.
Folks, this is an opportunity for us to tell the stories.
They took a statue down here in New Orleans and threw it in the river....a group of Americans retrived it and now are keeping it (probably will be put on private land), The police don’t play outside of the black mayor Cantrell’s sewer she calls New Orleans....lil’ different outside that hell hole where the native’s do what they do best...kill themselves in many a way’s....drug’s and thuggin’. I am SO glad I moved here from New England.
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