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Thread ID: 18816 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-06-24
2005-06-24 20:06 | User Profile
[url=http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=issues_misc&Number=293661045&view=collapsed&sb=6&o=7&part=]Pariahville[/url] (Liberty Forum)
2005-06-24 21:13 | User Profile
La Belle was one of the all-time greats, no doubt. Thank you Stanley.
She was here briefly as la foudre falle, or something like that. She had sent me an email a couple of years ago saying she couldn't log-in. I tried and tried to get the problem straightened out, but evidently could never do so. Most definitely OD's great loss.
If she is still in fact alive, I am looking forward to one day meeting her in the catacombs.
2005-06-24 23:58 | User Profile
Man, Mr. Tex, does that bring back memories. :wink:
Rimjobistan was a fun place before Abe and Rove moved in...
2005-06-25 01:43 | User Profile
You're welcome, TD. La Belle is probably on sabbatical. She's done it before.
HC, it really is sad to see what FR used to be.
For those who didn't know her, LaBelleDameSansMerci was, IMHO, the best poster on Free Republic, and, in her Pariahville guise, the best at Liberty Forum. Only Gecko could match her in substance. No one could match her in style. She had a wit like a scalpel, and she wrote so beautifully I wondered why she didn't do it for a living -- but who would publish her? She was banned from FR two years ago, and quit posting at LF last year.
A sample:
[url=http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3978d9e947e9.htm]SAMUEL FRANCIS: Capitalism the Enemy[/url]
To: Arator
With paragraphs such as this one: "Second, even with the emergence of a nonwhite majority and its hatred of traditional American cultural symbols, it is the willingness of ostensably "conservative" forces, like the Republicans and capitalism (organized religion, in the form of mainstream churches, is yet another), to support the war agianst these symbols that makes the war important and dangerous. In the long run, of course, the war will not be confined to symbols, but will extend to the people who have historically composed American civilization. Mr. Francis proves that he could be a polemicist in the nineteenth century; When writers actually believed that words had power; And that exercising the power of the written word was more than a mere occupation, it was a calling.
He calmly points out an incindiary, but obvious, fact that no other so-called conservative would touch with a ten foot quill pen. I am especially impressed with his willingness to take on organised religion for its abandonment of the culture war. All culture stems from religion and our current cultural "progress" is intimately related to dessication of Christianity. Of course, the "triumph" of Protestanism made that inevitable, but one need only look at the dreadful sub-mediocrity of all American Christian clergy--Catholic included--to know that it's not always darkest before the dawn. Sometimes it's darkest just before the lights go out permanently.
However, I must point out that here is another writer who is devoting his powers to the Grand Autopsy. I'll admit that my affection for the confederate battle flag is severely tempered by the fact that certain of my ancestors were on the other side--the glorious Wining Side. They, of course, didn't bear the bitter animosity towards the symbol--the communion of blood, I suppose.
My point is that every time the Enemy wins one I derive some satisfaction if it results in raising the consciousness of a few people about the Big Picture. Americans seem increasingly unable to think theoretically, or to experience empathy for the suffering of others. So, each ox that is gored might result in one more volunteer for the struggle.
A cultural symbol driven underground--and that's what these arrogant multi-culturalist dopes are doing--becomes more potent. I'm all for re-forming in the catacombs--down where the roots live.
I'm happy when the current power structure severs it's ties with the Boy Scouts. Every traditional entity should be severing its ties with the Status Quo. I loath it when some religious organisation wags its puppy-dog tail when the government pats it on the head and says: "Yes, you pick up the pieces. We've created a toilet bowl. You see if you can't clean it up a little around here. We're busy turning the whole world into a toilet bowl."
I see that happening with urban Catholic education, for example. The terribly, terribly sensitive priest explains to the news reporter that the school doesn't "inflict Catholic values on any of the students who don't wish it."
Consequently no Catholocism is transferred. And everyone is terribly, terribly pleased with the "healthy" Church/State relationship.
I envision a great day of silence, when the "winning" side wakes up and we just aren't there. The day when they'll have only themselves to "dialogue" with. Bella Abzug and Quenell X working out their problems without all of us reactionaries butting in. We'll be long gone.
But we have to let go first.
121 Posted on 07/22/2000 11:42:55 PDT by LaBelleDameSansMerci