Vendée and the United States Compared
A reader sent me a link to a set of four videos by Ann Barnhardt. The person who sent them to her also sent this introduction:
- I should caution you that Ann Barnhardt is by every measure an extremist, but in ways that are good and in ways that are not so good. She will say things about France that are bound to offend you. Her language is very coarse at times. She is a very ardent Latin Rite Roman Catholic, an extremely patriotic American who is convinced that the end is near at hand for the US. She is frantically trying to awaken people to the dangers that she sees all around us. About a year or so ago, she shut down her own successful cattle and grain trading business because she became convinced that the markets were operating illegally; soon thereafter we found out that indeed they were and still are. She has made a number of strongly anti-Islam videos, as well as a number of anti-Obama videos. To say the least, she is a real firebrand.
The video above is the fourth of the set of four. She begins where she left off in her discussion of the Vendean War, the massacre in the region known today as la Vendée, that took place during the French Revolution, between 1793 and 1796.
The war, which was in truth a genocide and an attempt at "population substitution", something that is happening again today throughout Europe and North America, is a very complex topic that requires much reading to understand even partially. There are excellent books on the topic, but for now I am confining myself to these videos, since they are really as much about the United States as about France.
The video above is about 17-minutes long, Ann's voice is a bit strident, so if you are interested, pace yourselves accordingly. For the whole set plus more from Ann Barnhardt, click here. If you read through her webpage you will probably find her offensive, and if you are French, you will be (justifiably) insulted. She insists on calling the French "surrender monkeys" and she launches into a useless tasteless tirade on the tastelessness of champagne. Her basic ideology is, nonetheless, patriotism plus God. God and Country. Should there be an eruption of widespread violence, barbarity and unspeakable brutality in the near future, a war to the death, a war to save or sink Western civilization, then Ann Barnhardt's language will seem like sugary poetics compared to what we will see and hear around us then.
Labels: French Revolution, History, Terrorism, United States, Vendée
posted by tiberge @ 6:39 PM
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I was disappointed in her use of those less than charitable terms for the French, after all, there are many who are trying to fight for their culture and faith. I have to wonder if there is some kind of renaissance going on within the French Catholic Church. Many of the excellent articles against homosexuality and the redefinition of marriage have been boldly denounced by French laity, both in writing and in videos. I hope to see such a revitalization in the churches in America, but I think it is going to get worse before it gets better.
DP111..
I love France. Love visiting it every year. But so many of the sites are mere shells. All that was within, has been destroyed by the "Revolution". The Revolution and the ensuing Terror, destroyed the civilised French - the carriers of culture, as well as destroyed traditional values. It made France susceptible to the likes of Napoleon, the Nazis, and now Islam.
In the Middle ages, France was the centre of European civilisation. It pioneered the greatest of architectural achievments, the Gothic cathedrals, that still have no equal. They are marvels, and absolute gems.
Now coming to Ann Barnhardt.
I see Ann Barnhardt's anger at the French, not as a hatred of France and the French, but as an anger born of love. Anger that France, and its men in particular, have capitulated to Islam. She insults all things French, particularly the virility and courage of French men. By insulting French men as cowardly "surrender monkeys", she is doing precisely what women in Sparta did to men who showed signs of cowardice. As a woman, she knows exactly what she is doing, when she insults a man's virility and courage, and what response she wants.
She hopes that French men will respond in the manner of a man, instead of hurling abuse at a 5' 2" woman.
@ Jewel,
I don't quite understand. Who wrote the articles you speak of? Traditionalist priests? And the laity denounced the articles? By laity, you mean everybody who is not a priest, or those members of the church whose job it is to defend the religion without officiating at Mass, i.e., lay priests?
I know there has been an outcry by some Catholics against homosexual marriage and other similar issues such as euthanasia. On these issues, the only thing Nicolas Sarkozy did was to vacillate, stall for time, mislead and ultimately set the stage for what would have probably been a mitigated cave-in to the Left, had he been re-elected. Hollande is simply cutting to the chase.
It is good that many Catholics are up in arms against Hollande and his crew, but they were too passive under Sarkozy, and most practicing Catholics voted for and continued to support (however reluctantly) Sarkozy, in 2007 and in 2012. Maybe Hollande's speed will serve as a spur to greater activity on the part of the Catholics. This would be wonderful, BUT I only hope they apply the same crusading-spirit to the presence of Islam.
So far, Catholic priests have either supported or acquiesced to Islam. The French would be grateful if that changed at long last. Most of the Catholics I read are traditionalists - Le Salon Beige, Daoudal, Bernard Antony, Riposte-Catholique.
@ DP111,
You have given a very insightful analysis of her apparent anger and contempt for the French. She may very well be someone who loves France, or who at one time loved France, and is outraged at the way the country has become terminally Socialist. She is also someone who has awakened to the Truth, or part of the Truth, and she has all the power of a convert in her speech. Whenever we suddenly "see the light"
we become almost deranged in our desire to spread to others the truths that we have learned. She has seen an analogy between the upheaval of the French Revolution, and the way it changed the country forever, and what is happening in America today. This is what she is trying to teach to others. In the videos, she was before a small audience. Hopefully many will see the videos, but they should be warned about her excesses.
The French people are not really taught about Vendée (or about Katyn in Poland) but they learn about these things thanks to the Internet if nowhere else. The Internet has proven that when truth is snuffed out somewhere, it arises somewhere else, like water or oil spurts forth from the ground under pressure, or volcanoes erupt. We know the truth is being suppressed when we feel that pressure building up. The French call it a "chape de plomb" - a lead cover, like a pressure cooker.
Maybe Ann Barnhardt is our new Oriana Fallaci.
The corollary of the message is unambiguously lugubrious . We have entered a phase of population replacement. Very few realize this.
The politicians are all in the know and are part of that " solution". Population replacement.
After two grand major civil wars, WW1 and WW2, and the letting of blood which followed , we are now reaping the consequences. The victors were the aliens, the extra europeans, the non-europeans. Vandee and Katyn were barbaric acts of slaughter. The population replacements is smoother, softer and with more catastrophic consequences. By the time is over, no one will be the wiser.
Yes unfortunately the official French Church is pretty much a joke with some exceptions such as Bp. Rey. The traditionalist movement is aware of the problems but has little influence on the official line of the French Church. I do think most traditionalists probably vote FN also.
I've noticed there is more and more interest in the Vendée among the American Catholic community, even a film about the Chouans to teach children :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk8ORQZUdqs
And of course years ago, there was the film, "Chouans !" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZQL1SheACI
As to "surrender monkeys", Ms. Barnhardt is ignorant on this subject, like many Americans. France lost over 58,000 men, over 120,000 wounded in just a couple of weeks in the battle of France (one of my uncles was there, the last man standing in his company, two others were killed later in Italy and Germany); the Germans choked the roads with civilians creating an enormous humanitarian crisis. Would the American public have accepted such great casualties in such a short time? There was no choice but to fall back and re-group. Vichy surrendered, but the resistants and De Gaulle did not.
DP111 wrote..
Tiberge wrote: She has seen an analogy between the upheaval of the French Revolution, and the way it changed the country forever, and what is happening in America today.
Very true. She is disgusted with Obama. Her critique of present day America is far far more severe then what she said of France.
Her natural tendency is to ally with Vendee Christians, who were Catholics. No wonder she is one angry woman. She sees good Christians destroyed, like they were pests, by what she quite correctly terms as proto-Marxists. If what she say of the French Revolutionaries is correct, then their policy of genocide is virtually identical to the Marxist genocides of the 20th century. Even Muslims have eventually stopped their slaughter, and made concubines of the women, and converted the boys to Islam. But Marxist genocides show not even that degree of restraint.
I hope and pray, that one day the French men, and make no bones about it, it will have to be the good men of France, who will bring France to right, and thus release Europe from the oncoming Islamic nightmare. Germany cant as it is tied down by its Nazi past. Britain is an island nation, and the rest of Europe will not follow it.
Only France can do it. It may be a woman who leads, such as Marine, but it will have to be men of the likes of Charles Martell.
P.S. - This was also broadcast on French television about 20 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNShI6GYSN4
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