--Jacques-Alexis Thuriot after having watched Robespierre descend from a manmade mountain
during the Festival for the Supreme Being
I'll admit I don't know much about Glenn Beck, aka the Weepy Bitch. But I've gotten enough of a (foul) whiff of the Bitch to know he plays on pure emotion. Oftentimes we don't act in our best interest, damaging our lives, and we have two choices at that point: take responsibility or evade it. Beck plays to the latter crowd. By convoluting fact and fiction, by twisting reality into a permanent victimhood, he's able to leave a perpetual finger pointing at all times.
In essence: "I hate people who think! All they want to do is make everyone else feel inferior! Who says thinking is so necessary anyway? Thought police and fascists, that's who! Taking away our liberty to not think! Oh, the humanity!"
Now, we've all played the weepy bitch before. But making a religion out of it is something else. Still, Beck cannot escape the universal law: you are what you protest. He is a witch-burning witch and if you want to know what he thinks of himself, you need only listen to his accusations. After all, when one is a traitor to one's country, the best defense is a campaign of relentless accusations of others' (alleged) treason.
From Robespierre's Report on the Principles of Political Morality, February 5, 1794:
If virtue be the spring of a popular government in times of peace, the spring of that government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror: virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ... The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Backward thinking is not new. In the same way we (allegedly) hope to wipe out terrorists by killing all who we label as such, Robespierre perfected the fine art of hysteria long before Weepy Bitch. Anyone who "threatened" the revolution, the holiest of holies, should be executed in virtuous terror, argued the would-be God. Purity is proven by the death of those you disdain. Luckily, Beck cannot send victims to the National Razor like the original weepy bitch, but all who sell the lie of false enemies do harm.
(Of course, we have sold ourselves this lie on a national level, predator drones being the new guillotines, the new "justice prompt, severe and inflexible".)
The Festival for the Supreme Being was Robespierre's downfall as "multiple sources state that Robespierre came down the mountain in a way that resembled Moses as the leader of the people." And many thought "he was attempting to create a new religion with himself as its god." Robespierre had gotten so full of himself - after having literally gotten away with murder for years - he did come to think of himself as God. That's the conclusion all frauds come to eventually. It's nature's way of purging.
And now we have another would-be Moses descending from the mountain, staged to piggyback on the meaning of a true man of integrity: Martin Luther King. And this is where I get rightly pissed. Instead of these weepy bitches engaging in a Stalinesque rewriting of history for our children, they should be made to read Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and learn something about true justice to "restore honor" (the stated purpose of the Weepy Bitch rally).
I do realize the greatest religion in America today is wishful thinking (which makes sense for a civilization in its twilight stage). The oil spill is gone like magic! The economy is getting better without new jobs! We can kill everyone who hates us and be safe! The list goes on and on and on. And during such times high priests of the popular creed will rise up to be praised. Robespierre was defrocked and executed, ending France's mock revolution. I can only hope we do the same.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
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