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19 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Even I am on Team Bonaparte, now Image
Not sure if the NY Times is just trolling but asking France to cancel Napoleon is, itself, a heroic request. The French, commendably, see Wokery as an American puritan idiocy, and refuse to countenance it. Even the French Left thinks Wokery is culturally effeminate absurdism.
If the NY Times wants 'multi-faith, multi race' history, well, General Franco's Army was mostly Catholic with a significant Moor Muslim component (Franco's own guard were Moor Lancers) ... and on capturing Madrid in 1939, Franco re-opened Synagogues the Communists closed & looted ImageImageImage
Will finish this by saying I acknowledge every Anglo complaint about the French .... But ..... they are wonderful and I will hear nothing against them. The French take magnificent care of the graves of Australian (and other Allies) legions of war dead. And they gave us de Gaulle.
General and then President Charles de Gaulle is one of history's great men (not just a great man of France) but he was a devoted husband & father, and in a very Catholic sense, unreconcilable to any capitulation.

I am muting anyone criticising the French, now. We all have our issues with Napoleon but, for now, we must protect even Napoleon from the raging, pronouned, soy adjacent, mobs. Image

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Have been watching The Baader Meinhof Complex (imagine German Boomers reliving their youth) and, so far, the main takeaway is BMWs were much more reliable getaway vehicles in the 1970s. Also everyone - male or female - looked like Joachim Low for some reason.
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I generally ignore most legal 'trends' (as actually practising lawyers tend to) but note two strong claims in 2021:

A/ 'Believe Victims'.

B/ 'Abolish prisons & a criminal justice that incarcerates innocent people on racist (etc) premises'.

You can have A or B but not both.
Judges, prosecutors, public defenders, etal, all have their own personal views, but that all goes to one side & cases turn on the evidence and whether the evidence supports the case that is being made. Especially in a criminal trial.
We are all (yes, even people you do not like) are presumed innocent (both in and out of a court) until we are found guilty of all elements of a specific crime beyond a reasonable doubt - by either a judge sitting alone or a judge with a jury - based upon *the evidence*.
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Anyone doubting the rule of law - and the integrity of police investigations and prosecutorial discretions - is in for a torrid future should see today's unceasing media push for, in effect, prime ministers & premiers to become involved in and direct police investigations. Crazy.
I, for one, am sure the same media that believes Cardinal Pell 'got off on a technicality' - when his appeal was allowed, his convictions quashed & judgments of acquittal entered by a unanimous High Court - will treat these allegations of grave crimes in a sensible & calm manner.
The deafening silence of our very online and opinionated lawyer soviet - who have all kept quiet or ridden the digital herd, thinking this will never happen to them or their clients - is noted. Absolutely appalling.
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Good morning all on this Ash Wednesday & the beginning of Lent
There is no doctrine in Catholicism that one “logs off” for Lent. That is abandoning the lay faithful & those whose salvation may depend on your periodically sound content. Reasonably sure Pius IX said always to post through Lent - indeed post through all of life’s travails
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Is there a *non-political* short explainer of why Victoria's Dept of Health cannot do (in terms of contact tracing etc) what the NSW Dept of Health does, so obviously & unusually well, every day? I just presume these two very large Health Depts regularly talk and exchange notes?
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Actually did a small thread on Quarantine last year fwiw provoked by the idiocies at that time as we were just beginning to deal with Covid. A strict quarantine enforced even against returning Australian soldiers from WW1.

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