Author Steven Clark Bradley is a multifaceted, professionally published author. Because of Steven’s unique experience as a world-traveling author, he is able to very vividly and authentically write about place that many have only read about and few have actually seen. Steven simply loves writing, and he has been blessed to travel extensively and loves to see the world. His travels around the world to 35 countries give him a really interesting amount and unique ways of explaining the characters in his stories. The driving force of his life is to tell the world around him what he has seen and how it impacts our lives today, how yesterday brought us to where we are now, and how it will certainly affect us all in the future.

Click Here To Go To Author Steven Clark Bradley's Amazon Author's Page
Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts

Obama's White House is Falling Down


I recall Barack Obama’s words immediately after signing the stimulus bill that will live in perpetuity and more than impoverish our grandchildren’s generation. After signing away our children’s heritage, he declared, “It’s done.” In reality, President Barack Obama was giving a heralding message to his hidden group of minions who make up his shadow government that all the funding for his own personal dismantling of the United States of America was now there and that they should engage and spread their evil ideals throughout the entire inner-workings of the federal government. Since that day, Obama has wreaked havoc upon the nation; spending trillions, with no end in sight. Yet, the American people are beginning to realize what they unleashed last November when they elected the nation’s first radically socialist President of the United States.

Even now, specific steps are being taken. They are not out in the open, but not exactly hidden either. The powers that be know that we love our country but they also understand that few there are who are willing to contribute life and limb to just forget about thriving and be mollified and pacified with the offer of mediocrity.

The irrefutable evidence reveals that a very large segment of this nation has believed the lie. It is the supreme perception that all of a sudden, I'm not strong enough or of sufficient intellectual prowess to simply take care of myself. There is no indignity in trying hard to make a dollar when you know it is really yours, and not taken out of the pocket of one and used to fill my belly while theirs perhaps remained unfilled!

There are those in society who do have need of their nation's largess. There is nothing greater than helping a mother to feed her children, getting an man or woman off of a hateful drug and into the workforce. I can think of no more worth while purpose for using my contributions to the national treasure than helping the elderly to extend their lives. They should remain at the top of the food chain and be given the help and attention that their lives were spent earning and fully expecting to be
considered as far more than just an unfortunate expense.

I applaud every dollar that has been spent to find a vaccine for AIDS and to extend the lives of those who are stricken with this affliction. We care about helping everyone to live as long as God determines. But, I will never support the right of anyone to use one dollar, that I have paid to the government, to terminate the life of anyone as perfect and as harmless and someone with so much potential like any of the forty million unborn children forced to walk through fires of Abortion in America's Culture of Death; the same ones that President Barack Obama would have called a punishment, had they lived.

The President has assessed the people of America correctly. He had to do that a lot, just to win the Oval Office. He knows that such things as the taking control of the banking, insurance, automobile and medical industries without war in the streets was a success; there was silence throughout the land and Obama read it as our capitulation.

Everyone inside the Democratic Party knows that these measures are unconstitutional, but they are determined not to let a little thing, like the complete disregard for the one document that holds us together as a nation, stand in their way. Why let the total abandonment of the law of the nation become such a major thing to complain about? Is that not Treason?

Is it too late to stop this evil cabal of left-wing thugs from enslaving us all to a government which has already drained America’s treasure? Read Daniel Greenfield’s article from the Canadian Free Press and you can decide for yourself if the nation can yet be saved. My prayer is that we will not all be buried in a national collective grave as Obama’s White House is Falling Down.
Author Steven Clark Bradley

~~~~

Obama's White House is Falling Down
By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.canadafreepress.com/

Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator. “Daniel comments on political affairs with a special focus on the War on Terror and the rising threat to
Western Civilization.
He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com.
Daniel can be reached at: sultanknish@yahoo.com

In the sixth month of his presidency, Obama has turned an economic downturn into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and driving the nation deep into deficit spending expected to pass 10 trillion dollars.


Abroad, Obama seems to have no other mode except to continue on with his endless campaign, confusing speechmaking with diplomacy. It is natural enough that Obama, who built his entire campaign on high profile public speeches reported on by an adoring press, understands how to do nothing else but that.


"Ego driven photo op appearances and
clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries"
Daniel Greenfield

While the press is still chewing over Obama's Cairo speech, this celebrity style coverage ignores the fact that Obama's endless world tour is not actually accomplishing anything. Instead his combination of ego driven photo op appearances and clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries have alienated many of America 's traditional allies. Those who aren't being quietly angry at Obama, like Brown, Merkel or Netanyahu, instead think of him as an absurdly lightweight, as Sarkozy, King Abdullah or Putin do.












While his officials carry out their dirty economic deeds, Obama responds to any and every crisis as if it were a Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musical, with a cry of, "Let's put on a show." Thus far Obama has put on "shows" across America , Europe and the Middle East . And what the adoring media coverage neglects to cover, is that Obama's shows have solved absolutely nothing. They have served only as high profile entertainment.

Neither alienating America's traditional allies, through a combination of arrogant bullying and ignorance, nor appeasing America's enemies, has yielded any actual results. Nor does it seem likely to. Islamic terrorism is not going anywhere, neither are the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran . While Obama keeps smiling, the global situation keeps growing more grim.

At home, if Obama was elected as depression era entertainment, the charm of his smiles and his constant appearances on magazine covers appear to be wearing thin on the American public. Despite the shrill attacks on Rush Limbaugh or the Republican Enemy of the Weak-- the Democratic party of 2009, is polling a lot like the Republican party of 2008.. The Democrats have suddenly become the incumbents, and the only accomplishment they can point to is lavish deficit spending, often on behalf of the very same corporations and causes they once postured against.

The European Union Parliament's swing to the right cannot be credited to Obama, though doubtlessly some European voters seeing socialist economic crisis management on display in the world's richest country decided they wanted none of it, but it is part of a general turning against federalism. And
Obama's entire program is dependent on heavily entrenching federalism at the expense of individual and state's rights. Yet that is precisely his Achilles heel with independent voters who are polling against more taxes and expanded government. And no amount of speeches by Obama can wish away his 18 czars or the national debt he has foisted on generation after generation of the American people. (Now, there are 32 czars and counting.....)

That leaves Obama with a choice
between socialism and the independent
voter. And thus far he has chosen socialism.

Obama's tactic of hijacking Bush Administration era policies on the economy and the War on Terror, and exploiting them as Trojan horses to promote his own agenda, have left him coping with a backlash from his own party, as well as general Republican opposition.

His Czars are meant to function as the bones in an executive infrastructure accountable to no one, but a lack of accountability isn't just another word for tyranny, but for incompetence. A functional chain of command is accountable at multiple levels if it is to function effectively. Obama's White House by contrast is in a state of over-organized chaos, the sort of organized disorganization that undisciplined egotistical leftists naturally create for themselves, complete with multiple overlapping levels of authority and no one in charge but the man at the top, who's too busy doing other things to actually be in charge.

Dennis Blair as National Intelligence, who collaborated with the Muslim genocide of Christians in East Timor , trying to muscle out the CIA to create his own intelligence network, is typical of the kind of chaos being spawned by every chief in an expanding government bureaucracy working to make sure that all the Indians answer to him. (Has anyone checked to see if the troubles between the CIA and Nancy Pelosi - and now - other Democrat Representatives in the House have any relationship to this?)Similarly the National Security Council wrestling with the State Department, highlighted by Samantha Power getting her own specially created NSC position to butt heads with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, illustrates the state of conflict and chaos in American foreign affairs. A state of chaos so pervasive that incompetence has now become commonplace, and no one can even be found to double check the spelling of a Russian word that is meant to be the theme of American's diplomatic reconstruction with Russia , or to pick out a gift for the visiting British Prime Minister.

"The death of Chrysler at the
hands of Fiat and the UAW"

Meanwhile on the economy, Obama exploited the ongoing bailouts, transforming them from bailouts into takeovers meant to shift the balance of power in what had been a democracy and socially engineer not only corporations, but the lives of ordinary Americans. But the public's patience with corporate bailouts is at an end, most Americans were never happy with them to begin with, and want them to end.

The death of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and the UAW might look like a victory in the union ranks, but it doesn't play too well outside Detroit . And tacking on CAFE standards that will kill the pickup truck and the SUV will badly erode Obama in the swing states, if exploited properly in 2010 and 2012. Despite the constant media barrage, orchestrated out of the White House, the public is growing disenchanted with the performance of Obama and the Democrats.

With unemployment booming and the economy dropping, the jobs aren't there and the spending is out of control. Republicans today are polling better on ethics and the economy, than the Democrats are. That shows a trend which is likely to register in the mid-term elections in 2010, in the same way that the EU parliamentary elections served as a shock to the system.

In the opposition, Republicans are free to embrace the rhetoric of change, to champion reform and push libertarian ideas about the size and scope of government. In turn all Obama has is his celebrity fueled media spectacle world tour. A charade now serving as a parallel to the depression era entertainment that functioned as escapism in a dour time. But before long, it may be Obama that the American public will want to escape from.

A shallow, manipulative and egotistical
amateur who is in over his head

Obama has tried to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK and FDR-- but in the end he can only play himself, a shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head, and trying to drag the country down with him. Obama's White House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still glittering and the parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and the Democratic Congress may be headed for a recession of their own.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Patriot Acts by Steven Clark Bradley

Where is Patriot Acts available?

This new exciting novel is easy to find and available all over the net. Here are a few links to help you secure you own copy of Patriot Acts.

Patriot Acts (Print Version) at Amazon,com

Patriot Acts (Print Version) at Cambridge Books

Patriot Acts (Electronic Version) at Ebooks on the net

Patriot Acts (Electronic Version) at Amazon.com

Patriot Acts (Electronic Version) at Fictionwise.com

Patriot Acts (Electronic Version) at Mobipocket.com

I hope everyone who reads this will not just think
it is entertainment or the irrational rambling of a scared
American. I am not afraid; I am convinced that no one
will secure our future except us.
That is why I declare the main theme of Patriot Acts
in one key phrase:

No unconditional Talks – Just patriot Acts!


You can read more of
Steven Clark Bradley's
work at any of these blogs
listed below:

Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , ,

Seven Reasons Why I Refuse To Vote For Barack Hussein Obama:

They say a picture is like 1000 words. Well, videos are worth millions. Watch these seven videos and see the Seven Reasons Why I Refuse To Vote For Barack Hussein Obama:

Reason #1



Reason 2



Reason 3



Reason 4



Reason 5



Reason 6



Reason 7


Here are a few other sites where you can read more of Steven Clark Bradley's material:



Amazon.com
booksamillion.com
powells.com
bordersstores.com
barnesandnoble.com
copperfields.com
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=106715
Posted by
Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,

Special Featured Post - So, How Do You Feel, Just Now




So, how do you feel, just now? I wonder, have you stopped worrying about what just happen to the greatest economy of the world, indeed, the greatest economy of the history of the world, for that matter. Have you not taken your eyes off the heartbeat of the nation that is in need of a bypass? If not, then come with me and ponder on precisely where this “Bailout”, as it is termed, is going. Where will it all take us? Could it be a set of predetermined action that are simply the latest and most far reaching actions, as once again, civilization is led like bleating, dumb sheep to an eventual socialist enclave where government is entrenched in every hidden and visible way. Could it all just ultimately bind us to the Culture of Death, or has it already?


Let’s say it straight! This nation’s government almost fell this week, due to the greed, filthy lucre and the lust for more power than is prescribed. It will all have the most dreaded results for freedom. It will result in a society that decides who lives and who dies and in which everyone marched to the same dirge, dying for a country that is no longer mine! It is a painful transition, for those who still love the America that once was; to watch her run headlong into the abyss of the Culture of Death. Alas, it has all been foretold. It is all set in motion. This will lead to a world that no longer follows, but instead is plunged headlong into a future of despair. The Bush Administration has changed this nation from the most free into the most closely watched and most highly scrutinized society in the history of man! Whosoever gets elected always ends up serving the emerging Culture of Death in America in voluntary or involuntary ways. We are entering into infernal days.



Do we comprehend what we have just bequeathed to posterity? Perhaps a better interrogatory sentence would be, Do we really care about a society which sold its birthright for a mess of poisoned porridge.


On 1995, I had just returned from Turkey, where I had resided four productive years. I came back to live in an America that was at war with itself. Clinton was not the devil incarnate, but he represented the first major step out of the world of National Identity and national pride. It took us right into the New World Order, of which George H.W. Bush had only loosely spoken. Since those days in which the greatest national tragedy of that time was the President’s sex life, look how far we have traveled that road to collectivity, where everyone follows everyone else. It will shrink the globe and reduce our rights and bind us to the Culture of Death. The Christian era has expired.


I could feel these forces at work and I started writing a book that is more real than one would care to admit. It was titled, Nimrod Rising. I have published extensive materials from the book that took me 12 years to write. One of the parts of Nimrod Rising that I posted in many places was the chapter titled, Tick Tock. In light of this week’s profound financial disaster and deal-breaking bailouts, I want to republish this chapter


Tick Tock is in a portion of Nimrod Rising that seeks to help the reader regain their focus of what the book describes as the end of the US political and financial system. I hope you will read it and see how real and pertinent it is to today’s events.


Nimrod Rising – Tick-Tock



There is no way to overstate the fact that the political, moral and financial ground is shifting radically under our feet. Though many seem to pursue this change as something that will bring about peace and prosperity, the reality is that the transformation of America from a nation founded on Judeo-Christian ethics to a land grounded on pagan principles will do nothing other than to hasten the arrival of an evil so ripe with death and destruction that the land that most of us have loved and cherished will cease to exist in any recognizable form.

In the Nimrod Rising excerpt, "Tick Tock" you can look at the many and various forces that are even now bringing America to her knees. Pipe dreams of peace, short-sighted politician and leaders who are willfully weakening the nation's resolve are taking America into dismal day from which there will be no deliverance nor escape.

As you read this powerful section of Nimrod Rising, consider the dangers that now face us and remember the adage that is as true as it has always been that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The clock is ticking, the minutes are waning and Nimrod is Rising! It's as real as it gets!

Nimrod Rising - Tick Tock Part One

1995 to 2010

The great shift had actually begun in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. It was, at first, a small movement of young, peace protesters and draft-dodgers. It was not until the nineties when one of their lot, who had actually marched down the streets of Moscow in protest of America, had risen by sheer cunning and innuendo to the top to become president and the leader of the free world. It had become a redundant title. For when the people’s hearts and minds no longer felt secure, there was no real freedom, and when the people no longer trusted their leaders to do what was right and to be what they could support, there seemed to be no one left to rule over.

It had all been proclaimed, declared, preached, protested, denied and detested for years! The common public had believed that the demise of the Soviet Empire would herald in a new era of peace and prosperity. It had even been given a name straight from the lexicons of political newspeak as “The Peace Dividend.” The ageless, and seemingly relentless, necessity of the huge military, industrial machine would diminish, or so the public was told. In addition, the peace-loving, doomsday-clock-fearing people were promised vast reductions in the federal budget which would, as the sewers of lies proclaimed, in a relatively short space of time, cut back the burden on tax-payers who had, after all, maintained the posture towards war at any given moment for over fifty years. The whole world was taking in fresh gasps of this new air of peace that had suddenly broken out everywhere. Then, hardly a decade later, two massive towers and three thousand American lives fell with a great destruction and death which the whole world mourned! It was then that the gates of Tenebre were swung open wide and the evil hoards of demons infested the soldiers of the Swarm! It had become a war that would have no end, for the day of Elyon was at hand.

The one hundred-day conflict in the Persian Gulf had hardly earned nor merited the title of a war, but its military impact seemed by no means minuscule, to say the least. The impact it had on the way the world communicated and the way in which would kill each other in future conflicts, even wars was so great that it could not yet be measured, at least not until the Swarm had festered. At least not until the slumbering masses in the land of the fat-cat free had been shaken awake by the alarm clock of blood and death on her streets by a new enemy that had no name, no look, no address, no conscience and no borders. It had been during the Persian Gulf conflict that the term “New World Order” first began to be heralded on the televisions and radios around the world on a daily basis. It soon became clear that some inconspicuous, intangible milieu of bearded and turbaned masters had raised the stakes in the game of peace making vs. waging war and were prepared to kill the child, never spare the mothers and to absolutely hunt down the fathers. The price to pay seemed now, for a peaceful non-explosive world, to dwarf the fears in American society concerning the federal deficit. No cost was too high! The cost accrued in the devastation of the Soviet Evil Empire seemed now to be minuscule in comparison with the new Swarm of evil minions that had stricken the land as a far more precarious adversary; one that seemed to have invaded from a known region of the world but was empowered by a force that was far outside of the tangible existence that could not be felt nor seen by humankind, because it was not human at all. This all was consuming the land internally during a time when the principles of right and wrong were being twisted and discarded for ideas that represented the constitution of the Evil One. It had engendered a design that systematically erased the needs of the few and maximized, in economic terms, the utility of the many. This new order had eroded the broken out everywhere. Then, hardly a decade later, two massive towers and three thousand American lives fell with a great destruction and death which the whole world mourned! It was then that the gates of Tenebre were swung open wide and the evil hoards of demons infested the soldiers of the Swarm! It had become a war that would have no end, for the day of Elyon was at hand.

_______________________________________

Nimrod Rising - In Depth
Nimrod Rising is a vast story of International significance, my setting is really two/fold. Steven Clark Bradley spent a large portion of his life in the cradle of civilization. This book should be read because it will speak to us about where we are going and what will be our consequences to bad actions in the future. It is a real treatise on America.
Click To Watch All Nimrod Rising Trailers



_______________________________________

The one hundred-day conflict in the Persian Gulf had hardly earned nor merited the title of a war, but its military impact seemed by no means minuscule, to say the least. The impact it had on the way the world communicated and the way in which would kill each other in future conflicts, even wars was so great that it could not yet be measured, at least not until the Swarm had festered. At least not until the slumbering masses in the land of the fat-cat free had been shaken awake by the alarm clock of blood and death on her streets by a new enemy that had no name, no look, no address, no conscience and no borders. It had been during the Persian Gulf conflict that the term “New World Order” first began to be heralded on the televisions and radios around the world on a daily basis. It soon became clear that some inconspicuous, intangible milieu of bearded and turbaned masters had raised the stakes in the game of peace making vs. waging war and were prepared to kill the child, never spare the mothers and to absolutely hunt down the fathers. The price to pay seemed now, for a peaceful non-explosive world, to dwarf the fears in American society concerning the federal deficit. No cost was too high!

The cost accrued in the devastation of the Soviet Evil Empire seemed now to be minuscule in comparison with the new Swarm of evil minions that had stricken the land as a far more precarious adversary; one that seemed to have invaded from a known region of the world but was empowered by a force that was far outside of the tangible existence that could not be felt nor seen by humankind, because it was not human at all. This all was consuming the land internally during a time when the principles of right and wrong were being twisted and discarded for ideas that represented the constitution of the Evil One. It had engendered a design that systematically erased the needs of the few and maximized, in economic terms, the utility of the many. This new order had eroded the concept that a country had sovereignty over its own destiny, concerns or people. The New World Order had instead cemented the idea in the minds of nations worldwide that no country could any longer concern itself primarily with its own needs and problems. It had become clear that no state could only concentrate on the policing of its own people.

There was a new conception, an abstraction: the people of the world would have to be taught to think globally and pass the “global test!” There was no longer an American community, a French community or any other community! There was just one big universal village that would protect each other from rogue states, should they seek to deviate from the prescribed path of peace, harmony and prosperity.

What was to be done to stop the Swarm from overtaking the fruited concrete plains of the New World Order by the armies of the Prince of Persia? It was precisely this order that had tamed nations into preserving the promise of global markets and confusing rights and wrongs. Yet, the degradation of national identities had forced the reticent and those who refused to play global ball to break out of the fray.

These self-perceived doers of good by evil means established worldwide organizational networks throughout the expanding underworld of fanatical Wahabi Allah worship and eventually united with those who simply loved to kill, maim and torture because they cherished mayhem. They grew to such an extent until nations could no longer defend or protect themselves from their terror, which they sought to impose on all perceived enemies. How could one declare war on the invisible nation of Nimrod? America had expanded its horizons from sea to shining sea. Blood, sweat and tears had forged it. There had always been that pioneering spirit that had first thrust people from all walks of life to set sail for the New World, and to survive there once they had planted their feet on the new soil. Yet, America had become a land striving for pleasure at any cost.

Here are a few other sites where you can read more of Steven Clark Bradley's material:

Steven Clark Bradley's Stories That Read You!
Steven Clark Bradley's Underground Controversy
Steven Clark bradley inspiredauthor.com/promotion
Steven Clark Bradley - Published Authors.com
Steven Clark Bradley at Blog Talk Radio.com
Steven Clark bradley at Communati.com
Steven Clark Bradley at Inspired Author.com
Steven Clark Bradley - Nimrod Rising
Author Steven Clark Bradley

All of Steven Clark Bradley's novels are widely available all over the net. Here are a few links to help you read these exciting stories now.

Amazon.com
booksamillion.com
powells.com
bordersstores.com
barnesandnoble.com
copperfields.com

Nimrod Rising - Maybe the most important book you'll ever read!

Nimrod Rising - As Real As It Gets!
Posted by
Labels: , , , ,

Revolutions Of Freedom & Terror



Imagine your terror. You are the daughter of a minor nobleman. All you have ever known is your family's pleasant country house, which is surrounded by gardens and farms. One night you are dragged out of bed, dressed in servants' clothes, and rushed away in the old market cart. Your parents have been warned that the family is about to be arrested.

The concentration of power and wealth amongst a few at the expense of many is a recipe for unrest. A similar situation existed in during the revolutions in America and in France. The big difference between the two nations’ wars though is that, whereas in America the fear and trepidation existed before the war and was brought on by the occupying British, in France, the fear of being killed appeared after the monarchy was overthrown and was caused by the leaders of the revolution itself.

All revolutions are the moments in a nation’s history when the masses, that is to say, the millions of ordinary men and women, begin to participate in politics and take their lives and destinies into their own hands. Revolution stirs up society from the top to the bottom of its ability to survive. It mobilizes layers that were previously inert and non-political. There are many things that cause an entire nation to rise up against its own government. Those are times when the survival of a people gains more importance than the continuation of a people’s traditions that had marked them throughout their history. This was true of the American and French Revolutions, as well. Yet, there are many differences between the two freedom movements of Americans and the French. Therefore, we should look into the differences that led the French people and the American colonies to rise up and throw off their leaders’ yoke of bondage. Though both groups of commoners had similar goals and desires; the two movements ended up miles apart in terms of their final outcomes.

A careful study of the French Revolution provides a complete proof against those who have stated that the revolution in France was the work of tiny handfuls of conspirators and demagogues. In his work, A Brief History Of The Past Two Hundred Years, Raymond F. Betts wrote, “In sum, the French Revolution did many things, unleashed new forces, destroyed old ideas, offered new promises. Not the Revolution itself, of course, but the people who made it.” Europe in Retrospect: The French Revolution, the Ideology.

The role of the masses, otherwise known as the third estate, is fundamental in driving the revolution forward at every stage. Revolution is indeed a movement and a rebellion started and carried out by the neglected masses. Yet, though the French People had the ability to find the leadership needed to overthrow the monarchy, they lacked the willpower to guide the revolution after the monarchy had fallen. This is in great contrast to the thirteen colonies after England sued for peace. In comparison, it may be a bit unfair concerning the aftermath of the coup d’état. America had virtually ruled themselves for more than two centuries, by the time the nation ratified the constitution. When the fighting had ceased and the numbers of dead Americans were still unknown, the new nation had already constructed a political, economic and judicial apparatus with which to rule and defend its newly independent people. Though America faced difficulties in the style and form of its government, the years of cultural development and economic help from the King of France during the revolution all helped to keep the fledgling nation together.

In contrast, France’s revolution for Equality, Liberty and Fraternity quickly descended into a virtual state of terror after the king’s head was separated from the King’s crown. France’s populace had been the victim of a feudal system that had left them ailing, very poorly educated and very angry. The leaders of the French Revolution were men of great skill. Mirabeau was a great orator and able statesman. Danton was a figure larger than life, the rallying point of the revolution at a moment of terrible danger. Robespierre, with all his faults and lust for power, was a very brave representative of the Jacobins who had really united the masses of Paris’ poor to carryout the Revolution. As could be expected, the latter-day bourgeois critics of the Revolution had reserved all their most venomous spite for the most consistently revolutionary figures. Men like Hébert a most consistent leader of the masses, is given little attention. It is sad how each of these men and many others finally turned upon each other.

The leaders who led the rebellion turned it into a court of blood, suspicion and deadly intrigue. The only thing that seemed to stop the spree of guillotined nobles and suspected conspirators was when the revolution finally turned on itself. Robespierre’s acquiescence in the ordered execution of the outspoken and very popular Danton represented the beginning of the end for the rebellion that the French Revolution had unleashed. If the leadership had had similar experience in running a nation as the United States enjoyed after it successful revolt, perhaps the streets of Paris would not have flowed with so much French blood. When the revolution devolved into the mayhem that ensued, active participation of the masses ebbed and the revolution came to a complete stop; going actually backwards causing the French public to long for the days they had just decapitated. Instead of a movement toward freedom being carried out, as the American Revolution had done, the rebellion was taken hostage by a group of leaders who not only matched and exceeded the brutality of the monarchy, but also failed to change the lives of the people. Instead of starvation by neglect, now anyone thought to have collaborated or thought to be thinking of collaboration were quickly rushed to revolutionary France’s version of a humane death by guillotine. Probably the most historic and important thing that the French Revolution accomplished was to pave the way for the empire that Napoleon Bonaparte soon after founded.

Some of the primary causes for the French Revolution can be found in the class structure of the three estates. The Clergy, which held major sway in the rule of France and all other monarchies that ruled over the people, was the First Estate and received special favors and access. This brought on a lot of apathy and distain for the church. During the history of France, the church had tried and succeeded in interjecting its power and demands by threatening the monarchies with excommunication. It was from the Church that kings and queens derived their divine right to rule. Those who refused to submit to the Pope could never hope to be protected by the Vatican.

Contrarily, America’s experience and causes for revolution were vastly different to issues and reasons for France’s war. Americans had come to the shores of the new world with the great hope of building their evangelical faith in a free land where no one could ever persecute them again for their love of God. In contrast, The French Revolution was not only a push to rid the people of its selfish and neglectful political system. It was also a defiant fist in the air against the church. Whereas America encouraged growth of the church before, during and after the war, France’s revolution was a coup to throw off the church as an impediment to political and economic development.

The Second Estate that made up the three leveled society of pre-revolutionary France was the Nobility. The aristocracy in France had treated its people as mere servants. While the people were in the throws of starvation, King Louis XV was living a lavish life and conducting himself without the slightest concern for the plight of the Third Estate, the commoners, who represented the majority of the population. It is well rumored that King Louis the Fifteenth’s last words were, “After me, the flood!” Though only tradition, the words seem plausible in light of the king’s flippant and wasteful lifestyle in his court.
Another major catalyst for the rebellion and the death of the monarchy in France was due to the major role that the Age of Enlightenment had played over many years. This movement had planted seeds of freedom and free thought that had no alternative but to eventually overthrow the obstacles to the development of change and freedom. This Western movement had had a great influence also on thirteen colonies over in the New World, which had just started to thumb its nose at its sovereign. The ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, that though today may seem passé, were powerful and revolutionary in the days of the Louis IVI and Robespierre. So powerful were they that even music and scores were determined as divisive and banned from Europe’s concert halls because of the political fervor they induced. The opera, Figaro serves as a great example of this historical truth. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his opera, Figaro, it was banned from many stages throughout Europe.

Simply put, the Age of Enlightenment had challenged the historic view that Kings devised their power by the rule of God and the Church. Therefore, the Age of Enlightenment challenged the established rule of a king’s divine right to rule. The new thought of the enlightenment not only launched a challenge to the ruling elite of nobility, but it also served as a direct threat to the clergy of the Catholic Church that had propped up the established monarchies throughout Europe. In addition, because the various thrones throughout Europe were all intermingled due to inner marrying for peace-making purposes, the whole thought of absolute rule was brought into questions. Perhaps the only kingdom to have ever responded to its people’s outcries was Great Britain when it produced the Magna Carte, which was a direct inspiration for the American Revolution, many years later. It is interesting to point out as well that the only monarchy to have survived this powerful force unleashed in the 1700’s is the Crown of England.

The American Revolution had writers such as John Lock and Thomas Jefferson and many others. Nevertheless, while the French Revolution fought for freedom from the King and from Christendom, post-revolutionary America experienced a great spiritual awakening which propelled the United States into the greatest gospel-propagating nation of its time. Preachers like Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finny saw great masses of people turn into dedicated servants of Christ. It was said that some cities even witnessed great numbers of taverns shut down due to the lack of clientele. The results of the French revolution were quite different, which left the cathedrals and chapels empty throughout France. The Catholic Church in France has never really recovered.

Another aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that motivated rebellion was that the new ideals for life appealed to bourgeois grievances. The ideals and writings of the Age of Enlightenment had served as a base from which to lodge their complaints and desires for change in the ruling nobles. In addition, the desire to conduct free trade and to see an expansion of the Third Estate’s financial stability drove the commoners to demand that they be allowed to conduct business in a freer atmosphere. The development of Third Estate commerce was a great threat to the nobility. The best way to insure submission was to keep the populous weak and needy.

In addition to the cultural cast system and the Age of Enlightenment; another major cause of the French Revolution was the financial difficulty into which the ruling class had allowed the nation to fall. The financial reform problems of debt and the financing many overly ambitious wars had had no affect on the lavish lifestyles of the nobility. It was the commoners, the Third Estate, who bore the brunt of the bad decisions of the monarchy. The king and his family continued to spend extravagantly on their courts while the people starved. Consequently, it was the peasants and the bourgeoisie that paid all the hefty taxes that were levied to pay for the bad investments and rich lifestyles while the Second Estate, the nobility, refused to give up any of their tax concessions. The role of women in the French revolution is a graphic illustration of this fact. Among the most decisive moments in the revolution was the fifth of October 1789, when six or seven thousand women of Paris marched in the pouring rain to Versailles to demand bread and to force the king to move to Paris. The men were shamed into joining this strange procession of "the baker, the baker's wife and the baker's boy" which turned the king of France into a virtual prisoner of a revolutionary people.

Another important point in the drive toward revolution in France was the king himself. Louis XVI was a king who could be described as an introvert. He spent little time concerning himself with the people’s needs and concerned himself mainly with the needs of his court. He had been raised with the nobles and that along with an obtuse, weak demeanor caused him to simply disregard the signs of rebellion festering under the current of court games and its frivolous lifestyle. In addition, King Louis XVI seemed incapable of taking strong and decisive action. He was a caretaker and filled his days with the games and pomp and circumstance of his office. Also, his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, had great influence on the king. Though the words that have been ascribed to her are probably exaggerated, she did demonstrate a true distain for the French subjects and cared little for the people’s plight.

In the case of the Americans, the new-world patriots were aiming their arrows of descent at the British Crown. Yet, after the war, the new nation pulled together and a class society was formed that allowed the growth of all levels of society. The idea of equality was not really a foundation stone of the American Revolution. Americans had lived together, rich and poor since the founding of Jamestown. Yet, when the American people compared the “Nobility” of the new nation to the nobility of England, the new leadership seemed far more just and even handed. The nation revered its forefathers even in poverty, because they felt their interests were taken into consideration.

Finally, it cannot be minimized just how big a role the American Revolution played in the development of the French war against their monarchy. It has been pointed out that there were many differences between the French and American revolutions. Yet, the purposes and the doctrine of the American Revolution did give an impetus for the French to finally rise up and take the government by force. Also, the presence of French soldiers on American soil during the American Revolution did introduce new ideas of liberty and economic freedom in the minds of the leaders of the French rebellion. French soldiers who returned to France had new ideas and goals and quickly shared their views throughout the nation. As a result, the ideal proclaimed by the American forefathers and the wording of the American Declaration of Independence caused a yearning for more liberal freedoms for all people. It caused the people to let down their hesitancy to take up arms against the tyranny they faced in their own nation. It forced the people to understand that the only way to get out from under the terrible taxes of the lavish king was to call for no taxation without proper representation. All of this gave the people the common belief that a republican form of government was superior to a monarchy.

Is America perhaps in the midst of a new revolution? The current election has the potential of changing the land of the free forever. Barack Obama represents leadership that will take the nation toward social revolution where we will see a plethora of blushing, bearded brides. His persona is an enigma that is far more visible and available than the biased American press would lead us to believe. This nation that has been at war with Islamic radicals throughout the world is about to elect a man who finds his roots in faith of Mohammed. That, in itself, represents a revolution of thought and practice that will render the war on terror unwinnable. These changes are dangerous side of democracy that still must be preserved. If a land is ready to relinquish its hold on power and ready to yield the role of superpower, then such risky revolutions shall be inevitable.

The greatest protagonist of Revolution has no name. It is the revolutionary people themselves; those countless unknown and unsung heroes, activists and heroines from both America and and the world who embody the mainspring of the entire process. There are great differences in goals, ideals and results in the wars that turned America and France into the nations they are today. It will be interesting to see how the future revolutions of these two countries, both violent and bloodless, will develop. What is sure is the true words heard time and time again that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. Until then, Vive La Revolution! - Steven Clark Bradley


All of Steven Clark Bradley's novels are widely available all over the net. Here are a few links to help you read these exciting stories now.
Amazon.com
booksamillion.com
powells.com
bordersstores.com
barnesandnoble.com
copperfields.com
Posted by
Labels: , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)