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Democrazia anti-cristiana, by Riccardo Cascioli

Non solo è inquietante il filo rosso anti-cristiano delle azioni delle attiviste di Femen, ancor più lo è la reazione ostentatamente “morbida” delle forze di polizia nei vari paesi europei teatro delle esibizioni delle donne in topless. Se poi – vedi la Francia – mettiamo a confronto la tolleranza di cui godono gli attacchi delle Femen con l’inaudita violenza usata dalle forze di polizia ai danni dei pacifici dimostranti contro le unioni omosessuali, l’inquietudine diventa allarme.

Il fenomeno è così evidente che il governo francese dovrà rendere ragione della sua disparità di trattamento al Comitato dei ministri del Consiglio d’Europa. Tale organismo riunisce gli ambasciatori dei 47 paesi che fanno parte del Consiglio d’Europa; esso esercita soprattutto un potere di controllo sugli Stati per quanto riguarda il rispetto della democrazia, dei diritti umani, e dello stato di diritto.

Nei giorni scorsi quindi è stata presentata un’interrogazione al Comitato dei ministri da parte di Luca Volontè, presidente del gruppo del Partito Popolare Europeo all’Assemblea parlamentare del Consiglio d’Europa, il quale ricorda la violenza gratuita delle forze di polizia contro quell’enorme folla che nelle settimane scorse ha sfilato pacificamente per Parigi per protestare contro la legge – voluta dal presidente Holland – che permette il matrimonio a persone dello stesso sesso e addirittura l’adozione. Ci sono numerose riprese fotografiche e video che mostrano come le forze francesi abbiano usato il pugno di ferro contro i manifestanti, tra cui numerose donne e bambini.

La violenza è poi divenuta intimidazione: si ricorda il caso dell’uomo costretto a pagare una multa salata perché indossava una t-shirt con il logo della manifestazione, e poi i 67 giovani arrestati e tenuti in guardiola per una giornata intera solo per aver protestato (peraltro in silenzio) vicino alla sede dell’Assemblea Nazionale.

Dall’altra parte, invece, le attiviste di Femen godono di una impunità ben poco comprensibile all’apparenza, visto che le loro aggressioni contro persone e luoghi di culto si stanno moltiplicando. Perciò l’interrogazione chiede anche che il Consiglio d’Europa intervenga per far cessare in Francia le violenze delle forze dell’ordine contro i cristiani, oltre che indagare sulle attività di Femen.

Read the complete article in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana


Oui, c’est un changement de civilisation, by Jean Rouxel

La gauche semble décidée à renouer avec le fanatisme de 1793, en prônant un « changement de civilisation » – l’expression est de Mme Taubira – et, à tout le moins, un changement radical de société.

Elle a le droit de le proposer. Nous avons le devoir de nous y opposer.

Ce changement radical, Mme Taubira l’a évoqué pour le « mariage pour tous ». Il est bien évident qu’une société qui ne reposerait pas sur la famille comme cellule de base serait profondément différente de tout ce que nos aïeux ont connu.

Le mariage dit « pour tous » n’est pas, comme son nom le laisse entendre, l’élargissement aux couples homosexuels de l’accès au mariage, mais la fin du mariage. Si le mariage n’est plus cette institution particulière qui lie exclusivement et durablement un homme et une femme pour créer une cellule familiale, il n’est plus rien du tout. Autant dire que le droit des contrats commerciaux s’applique à ce contrat particulier !

Mais ce changement radical est bien plus vaste. Nous le voyons, en particulier, avec la question de l’immigration, de plus en plus voulue par nos dirigeants com­me un changement de peuple.

Et l’État de droit lui-même disparaît dans cette prétention exorbitante du législateur.

Opérer un changement de civilisation par une simple loi est ahurissant. Fonder un changement de civilisation sur une prétendue majorité présidentielle (je rappelle que la majorité des Français a refusé de voter Hollande, même au 2e tour) est absurde.

Nous savions déjà que la gauche avait une conception bizarre de la légitimité. Le « Vous avez juridiquement tort parce que vous êtes politiquement minoritaires » du Laignel de 1981 résonne encore à nos oreilles.

Aujourd’hui, il y a pire. Le rapporteur du projet Taubira au sénat, Jean-Pierre Michel, grand défenseur de la Terreur, a osé répondre au philosophe Thibaut Collin : « Ce qui est juste, c’est ce que dit la loi. Et celle-ci ne se réfère pas à un ordre naturel, mais à un rapport de force à un moment donné. » Ce qui signifie, si les mots ont un sens, que les lois de Nuremberg, la législation soviétique ou le génocide cambodgien étaient « justes ».

Curieuse conception de la justice ! En tout cas, il est certain que nous rompons avec la civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Mais ce qui vient derrière, ce ne sont pas les lendemains qui chantent, mais bel et bien la barbarie. L’actuelle majorité en portera l’écrasante responsabilité. Mais qu’elle ne compte pas sur nous pour être complices silencieux de cette barbarie !

Read the complete article in Les 4 verites


Frodo versus Robespierre, by Joseph Pearce

If a thing is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly…
This paradoxical witticism of Chesterton was on my mind as I sat down to watch The War of the Vendée, a recent film about the forgotten martyrs of the French Revolution. I was pleased that a film had been made to honour the heroes of the Vendée but I feared that it would be a really bad film. Certainly everything seemed to suggest that it would be awful. It was made with a miniscule budget and a cast of dozens as opposed to thousands. How could a couple of dozen actors realistically depict a battle scene or the slaughter of thousands of Catholics by Robespierre’s terrorists? Worse still, the film’s director, Jim Morlino, had decided to use only child actors. Wasn’t this a recipe for disaster? Oh well, I thought as I hit the play button, if a thing is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly…
Fearing the worst, I found myself charmed by the film, and was moved to tears of sorrow for the fate of the martyrs of the Catholic Resistance but also to tears of laughter at the moments of comic relief.

As I watched the child actors playing husbands and wives, and even grandparents, I realized that you had to see the film through the eyes of a child in order to see it at all. This is emphatically not to suggest that the film is childish but that we adults have to become childlike in order to enter the kingdom of truth that the film presents to us. We have to suspend our disbelief, walking through the wardrobes of our imagination into a world where the eternal verities shine forth with innocence and wonder.
As I allowed my own imagination to wander through the wardrobe of wonder, I found myself, to my surprise, not in Narnia but in Middle-earth. The romantic and rustic depiction of life in the villages of the Vendée became, for me, a reincarnation of the Shire. Once this connection had been made, the child actors became hobbits, halflings who faced the French revolutionary dragons with an unsophisticated innocence. I am sure that something of this vision was in the mind of Morlino, who depicts the evil Robespierre as being demonically possessed, as no doubt he was. Robespierre is as unsophisticatedly evil as the peasants of the Vendée are unsophisticatedly good.
There is a price to pay for this unabashedly pure approach to the problem of evil, such as a loss of the nuanced niceties that historical accuracy demands (and should demand), but the price is well worth paying. Deep down, at the bedrock level of truth, the French Revolution was as evil as anything that the Fellowship of the Ring had to face. Its bloodthirsty secular fundamentalism set the scene for the bloodletting of the next two centuries. In its insatiable war on the Faith, secularism began with the guillotines and the Great Terror and metamorphosed into the Gulag and the gas chamber. Today, of course, it attacks the Faith and the Family and is systematically exterminating the weak and disabled members of society through the plague of abortion.
Make no mistake, Robespierre was one of Satan’s greatest servants and the villagers of the Vendée were certainly on the side of the angels. As such, we can be sure that both sides in this epic struggle between good and evil now have their reward. Robespierre would be killed by the same orcs that he had unleashed on the Vendée and his fate after death might be too horrible to contemplate. The heroic villagers of the Vendée, butchered in their thousands by the hordes of revolutionary orcs, are now in the company of the saints, martyrs and angels.
Read the complete article in The Imaginative Conservative

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