2004-07-14
BASTILLE DAY
v-- pix credit Fred Stein
Strange, strong ironies here | "Bastille Day is rooted in the history of the birth of the French Republic and commemorates the storming of the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism of the monarchy | The day represents the success of the revolution and the struggle against oppression"1
The Storming of the Bastille represented "...proof that power no longer resided in the King as God's representative, but in the people..."2 | And we, today, are increasingly threatned with usurpers agressively engaged in re-establishing a new monarchy, of sorts | Perhaps every bit as oppressive as those of old |
Now, after a protracted ideological revolution, those same usurpers call to rein in terrorism while laying the foundation for a new Reign of Terror, with themselves at the helm and may God be with you if you resist! | Oh how times have changed |
At the same time, one might take solace in ~ knowing history ~ the reigns of terror that have held sway in the latter days of human history can and often do, get swept down with an equally swift ferocity |
There are those today who increasingly believe that, in 1789 "...the French had the right idea..." when it comes to reparations for the guilty | That is to say ~"...off with their heads..." | a premise not practical in application, but not out of line where some stand philosophically |
But we don't know the outcomes for thses times | Future historicans have yet to write that chapter |
Fred Stein's photos taken during the Nazi occupation of Paris during the 1930s, also provide a poignant connection to another period of time which, not unlike the present, was fraught with tension and similarities | Not that I'm calling any one a Nazi, mind you | Others more lucid than I have already done that |
FOOTNOTES: 1- www.francelegends.com/ | 2- Hightower Trail's paen to Bastille Day ¶ 23:15
v-- pix credit Fred Stein
Strange, strong ironies here | "Bastille Day is rooted in the history of the birth of the French Republic and commemorates the storming of the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism of the monarchy | The day represents the success of the revolution and the struggle against oppression"1
The Storming of the Bastille represented "...proof that power no longer resided in the King as God's representative, but in the people..."2 | And we, today, are increasingly threatned with usurpers agressively engaged in re-establishing a new monarchy, of sorts | Perhaps every bit as oppressive as those of old |
Now, after a protracted ideological revolution, those same usurpers call to rein in terrorism while laying the foundation for a new Reign of Terror, with themselves at the helm and may God be with you if you resist! | Oh how times have changed |
At the same time, one might take solace in ~ knowing history ~ the reigns of terror that have held sway in the latter days of human history can and often do, get swept down with an equally swift ferocity |
There are those today who increasingly believe that, in 1789 "...the French had the right idea..." when it comes to reparations for the guilty | That is to say ~"...off with their heads..." | a premise not practical in application, but not out of line where some stand philosophically |
But we don't know the outcomes for thses times | Future historicans have yet to write that chapter |
Fred Stein's photos taken during the Nazi occupation of Paris during the 1930s, also provide a poignant connection to another period of time which, not unlike the present, was fraught with tension and similarities | Not that I'm calling any one a Nazi, mind you | Others more lucid than I have already done that |
FOOTNOTES: 1- www.francelegends.com/ | 2- Hightower Trail's paen to Bastille Day ¶ 23:15
