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On this day in 1793,Marie Antoinette was beheaded.Luckily for Teabaggers,America has no Guillotines
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/on-this-day-in-1793-marie-antoinette-was-beheaded-fortunately-for-teapublicans-america-has-no-guillotines/The only punishment these latter-day Antoinettes are likely to suffer is the loss of their cushy DC jobs. Like the French aristocracy of their day, Teapublicans are thumbing their noses at the populace, stealing our money, allowing children to starve and sick people to die, all the while laughing merrily at our struggles as they lead their gilded lives. The parallels to this writer’s ancestral homeland are obvious.
Congressional “Republicans” would have us believe that taking away the paychecks of millions of Americans and refusing to pay what is due to millions of others, crashing the economy and wrecking the government; all of these, the Teabaggers tell us, are the “will of the people”. Anyone possessed of even a moiety of their marbles would know that the will of the people would never be the theft of our money and the destruction of our way of life. But the Baggers, sad to say, haven’t so much as a shard of one of their marbles, and so they repeat the mistakes of Marie and Co.
Gentle Reader, when you next go to the polls, please use your votes to cut away Tea Party contingent from Congress. Unlike Marie Antoinette, they won’t die: indeed, a (metaphorical) electoral guillotine just might help our country to stay alive.
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Call it the Be-baggers - and our symbol will be the guillotine.
But that would assume they have balls. Doubt they'd be scared.
On a more serious note, we could re-establish the Enragés (to focus on class struggle):
From Wiki:
Les Enragés (literally "the Enraged Ones"
were a loose amalgam of radicals active during the French Revolution. Politically they stood to the left of the Jacobins. Represented by Jacques Roux, Théophile Leclerc, Jean Varlet and others, they believed that liberty for all meant more than mere constitutional rights. Roux once said that "liberty is no more than an empty shell when one class is allowed to condemn another to starvation and no measures taken against them".
The demands of the enragés included:
Price controls on grain
The assignat as the only legal tender
Repression of counterrevolutionary activity
A progressive income tax
They were supported by the sans-culottes. To the left of the Montagnards, the enragés were fought against by Maximilien de Robespierre and reemerged as the group of Hébertistes. Their ideas were taken up and developed by Babeuf and his associates.
Another group styling itself les enragés emerged in France in 1968 among students at Nanterre University. They were heavily influenced by the Situationists and would go on to be one of the leading groups in the May 1968 French insurrection.
were a loose amalgam of radicals active during the French Revolution. Politically they stood to the left of the Jacobins. Represented by Jacques Roux, Théophile Leclerc, Jean Varlet and others, they believed that liberty for all meant more than mere constitutional rights. Roux once said that "liberty is no more than an empty shell when one class is allowed to condemn another to starvation and no measures taken against them".
The demands of the enragés included:
Price controls on grain
The assignat as the only legal tender
Repression of counterrevolutionary activity
A progressive income tax
They were supported by the sans-culottes. To the left of the Montagnards, the enragés were fought against by Maximilien de Robespierre and reemerged as the group of Hébertistes. Their ideas were taken up and developed by Babeuf and his associates.
Another group styling itself les enragés emerged in France in 1968 among students at Nanterre University. They were heavily influenced by the Situationists and would go on to be one of the leading groups in the May 1968 French insurrection.
The 1968 French insurrection of radical socialists and anarchists applied the following slogan to encapsulate the movement:
Be Realistic! Demand the Impossible!
No truer words have ever been spoken.
Also read Daniel Guerin who has been a chronicler and activist for economic and social justice all of his life.
Wish I would have thought of it first.
