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In reply to the discussion: Am I a bad liberal if I'm starting to get Tired of this Shit? [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)55. Like JFK said, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution
inevitable".
Americans have The 4th of July; the French have Bastille Day. On July 14, 1789, an outraged group of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a fortress and prison in France where prisoners of influence were held, in hopes of capturing ammunition.
Shortly thereafter, King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette took refuge in Versailles as the violent peasants pillaged and burned châteaux, and destroyed records of feudal duesthis reaction is known as the grande peur (great fear).
For the peasant class, the Bastille stood as a symbol of the hypocrisy and corruption of the aristocratic government - controlled mostly by nobility and clergy. This important event marked the entry of the popular class into the French Revolution.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99bastilleday.html
Shortly thereafter, King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette took refuge in Versailles as the violent peasants pillaged and burned châteaux, and destroyed records of feudal duesthis reaction is known as the grande peur (great fear).
For the peasant class, the Bastille stood as a symbol of the hypocrisy and corruption of the aristocratic government - controlled mostly by nobility and clergy. This important event marked the entry of the popular class into the French Revolution.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99bastilleday.html
Maybe the 1% should get a clue. When there is no hope of improving intolerable conditions of injustice, equality, and ever increasing oppression, oppressed people become hopeless and angry, and they start to break shit The 1% should be wise and relinquish control of the government to the people, and allow a more just and equitable system to come into being.
Unfortunately, they believe themselves to be invincible in their gated communities and ivory towers; their greed and arrogance always supersedes any type of good judgment, so eventually, their heads are gonna roll, one way or another. They are surrounded, and there are very few of them, compared to a a 99% that grows more discontent and furious by the day.
The name Custer comes to mind.
I'm not advocating violent revolution. I'm just sayin', ya know?

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and I am sure there were some unhinged that joined in the fun of the French Revolution too!
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#33
So, did you write an angry "I'm tired of this shit" screed when the Giants fans trashed your city?
notadmblnd
Dec 2014
#2
I imagine that is what the British said the morning after the Boston Tea Party!
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#29
It was British tea. Do you believe it was the police who provoked this behavior?
arcane1
Dec 2014
#44
And the Westboro Baptist Church folks can certainly enter a public veteran's cemetery, yes?
jberryhill
Dec 2014
#30
The protestors were, according to the SFPD, peaceful before they got corralled and barricaded by the
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2014
#57