Every once in a while I have a joint and then my mind opens and the thinking becomes an opera as ideas mesh and explode and random dots become connected, so I am sitting here and thinking about the movie we watched last night. Mel Gibson at his finest in "The Patriot.....or Patriots as I prefer!"
The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical fiction war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, and Jason Isaacs. The film mainly takes place in rural Berkeley County, South Carolina, and depicts the story of an American Colonist, nominally loyal to the British Crown, who is swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. Benjamin Martin is a composite figure the scriptwriter claims is based on four factual figures from the American Revolutionary War: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, and Thomas Sumter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_(2000_film)
I love this movie! It's one of his greatest with the exception of Brave Heart. How awesome were the French Nation? Once upon a time......the French were brilliant in splendor and courage; and bravery.
The French Revolution, the Liberty brought to the United States of America, the beautiful powerful contribution made to the vineyards of South Africa, language, art and culture! A magnificence of a contribution to the World as a whole. How we have all benefited and come to be because of the French nation.
Yet this country stands as one of the rudest western worlds. Strike up a conversation with anyone. Ten minutes with someone from the UK, expect to be asked who are your parents and where were you born! The British are obsessed with roots and where we come from and no one asks why? Europeans chit chat and suss you out. South Africans don't generally engage in conversation, but they will pause to give you the necessary information. Black South Africans are generally friendly and helpful as are all Africans, if they have no weapons in their hands. Russians are confident and will happily contribute, Americans are sweet, but watch your back Jack! If you are French, I won't even attempt to engage in conversation, the nods, vacant expressions and no-no mouthed clearly, from quite a few folks throughout the world, French folks don't talk to strangers!
Rude? Could be, maybe cautious? I wouldn't know, all I do know is they are not talking to me. All cultures have different norms and different standards, but we all cry, we all hurt and we all are living right here beside each other.
The Red, White and Blue of the United States of America is inherited from France. This is your brother in arms. Your true friend in need was a friend in deed and came to free you. France is falling to Islam and perhaps so are all of us, this is our cross to bear, our thoughts to ponder and our inner journey.
France has stood for liberty, freedom and when those that celebrated true Freedom of Speech and true journalism were slayed in France, we did not grieve for the War declared on Freedom of Speech! This is our Liberty. This is where freedom lies, the freedom to express ourselves and we are being enslaved!
Our words chained, locked and hidden from the world. No one may dream, think or speak, we have algorithms that will shut us down.
Many have given the blood in their veins for freedom, liberty and we will come to decide, do we give our minds and sacrifice our sanity? 5G it's coming for us. As someone suggested turning off the net is our only saving grace and that's not going to happen. So on this day, my thoughts lie with the French Nation and their contribution to humanity and the many gifts they have given us.
May we always strive to speak our minds and never shall our words be silenced!
Thank you France!
Viva la France!
The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical fiction war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, and Jason Isaacs. The film mainly takes place in rural Berkeley County, South Carolina, and depicts the story of an American Colonist, nominally loyal to the British Crown, who is swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. Benjamin Martin is a composite figure the scriptwriter claims is based on four factual figures from the American Revolutionary War: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, and Thomas Sumter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_(2000_film)
I love this movie! It's one of his greatest with the exception of Brave Heart. How awesome were the French Nation? Once upon a time......the French were brilliant in splendor and courage; and bravery.
The French Revolution, the Liberty brought to the United States of America, the beautiful powerful contribution made to the vineyards of South Africa, language, art and culture! A magnificence of a contribution to the World as a whole. How we have all benefited and come to be because of the French nation.
Yet this country stands as one of the rudest western worlds. Strike up a conversation with anyone. Ten minutes with someone from the UK, expect to be asked who are your parents and where were you born! The British are obsessed with roots and where we come from and no one asks why? Europeans chit chat and suss you out. South Africans don't generally engage in conversation, but they will pause to give you the necessary information. Black South Africans are generally friendly and helpful as are all Africans, if they have no weapons in their hands. Russians are confident and will happily contribute, Americans are sweet, but watch your back Jack! If you are French, I won't even attempt to engage in conversation, the nods, vacant expressions and no-no mouthed clearly, from quite a few folks throughout the world, French folks don't talk to strangers!
Rude? Could be, maybe cautious? I wouldn't know, all I do know is they are not talking to me. All cultures have different norms and different standards, but we all cry, we all hurt and we all are living right here beside each other.
The Red, White and Blue of the United States of America is inherited from France. This is your brother in arms. Your true friend in need was a friend in deed and came to free you. France is falling to Islam and perhaps so are all of us, this is our cross to bear, our thoughts to ponder and our inner journey.
France has stood for liberty, freedom and when those that celebrated true Freedom of Speech and true journalism were slayed in France, we did not grieve for the War declared on Freedom of Speech! This is our Liberty. This is where freedom lies, the freedom to express ourselves and we are being enslaved!
Our words chained, locked and hidden from the world. No one may dream, think or speak, we have algorithms that will shut us down.
Many have given the blood in their veins for freedom, liberty and we will come to decide, do we give our minds and sacrifice our sanity? 5G it's coming for us. As someone suggested turning off the net is our only saving grace and that's not going to happen. So on this day, my thoughts lie with the French Nation and their contribution to humanity and the many gifts they have given us.
May we always strive to speak our minds and never shall our words be silenced!
Thank you France!
Viva la France!
Blue and red are the traditional colours of Paris, used on the city's coat of arms. Blue is identified with Saint Martin,[citation needed] red with Saint Denis.[citation needed] At the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the Paris militia wore blue and red cockades on their hats. White had long featured prominently on French flags and is described as the "ancient French colour" by Lafayette.[2] White was added to the "revolutionary" colours of the militia cockade to "nationalise" the design, thus creating the tricolour cockade.[2] Although Lafayette identified the white stripe with the nation, other accounts identify it with the monarchy.[5] Lafayette denied that the flag contains any reference to the red-and-white livery of the Duc d'Orléans. Despite this, Orléanists adopted the tricolour as their own.
Blue and red are associated with the Virgin Mary, the patroness of France, and were the colours of the oriflamme. The colours of the French flag may also represent the three main estates of the Ancien Régime (the clergy: white, the nobility: red and the bourgeoisie: blue). Blue, as the symbol of class, comes first and red, representing the nobility, comes last. Both extreme colours are situated on each side of white referring to a superior order.[6]
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