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<\/a>into effect in 1789.\u00a0 The all important Bill of Rights became effective in 1791.\u00a0 A system of checks and balances insured individual freedoms and limited the government powers.\u00a0 From Boston to Savannah it was the best of times.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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The French Revolution<\/h2>\n
The origin of each revolution is startlingly different.\u00a0 Reason lead to the American Revolution, anger led to the French Revolution.\u00a0 The American Revolution started with a demand for representation.\u00a0 The French Revolution was the result of centuries of untold abuses by the ruling nobility and clergy.<\/p>\n Strategically France was surrounded by countries, governed by kings, fully committed to drown any revolution in the blood of the revolutionaries.\u00a0 There was no opposition to the Bill of Rights from the outside as America was an isolated continent.<\/p>\n Tactically the American Revolution was fought against enemy troops.\u00a0 Foreign British troops sent from England and Hessen contractors.\u00a0 The battle lines were clear making the war somewhat less personal.\u00a0 America\u2019s natural leaders remained in leading positions.\u00a0 It was easier to establish a new nation as all had fought together knowing each other\u2019s merits and respective positions.<\/p>\n The tactical situation in France was very different.\u00a0 It was total war.\u00a0 There were violent insurrections within the borders and committed, powerful enemies outside the borders.\u00a0 The war outside was bad, but the civil war was worse.\u00a0 After the nobility and others in opposition to those currently leading the revolution had either run abroad or been beheaded, the revolutionaries fought anyone who even hinted they were not as radical as fashion dictated, or simply looked too smart.\u00a0 It was extremely personal and very heated.\u00a0 With an insinuation, your land lady could sentence you to death.\u00a0 The French people had their first injection of learned helplessness.<\/p>\n Due to these differences, the French revolution gave birth to a very different document than the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 It is called, hypocritically, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.\u00a0 It should have been called the Declaration of the Rights of the Government.\u00a0 There were some major and significant advances on basic rights compared to the \u201cAncient Regime\u201d.\u00a0 But, there was nothing comparable to the Second and Third Amendments of the American Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n The Third Article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man reads:<\/p>\n \u201cThe principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No group, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Subsequent governments interpreted \u201cNation\u201d as the State.\u00a0 The French revolution replaced the tyranny of the kings by the tyranny of the state.\u00a0 There are no checks and balances and above all there would never be, god forbid, any right to keep and bear arms – unless sanctioned by the almighty State.<\/p>\n The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to limit the power of government.\u00a0 The Declaration of Rights of Man instead fully ascertained the absolute power of the state.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Americans have great individual powers.\u00a0 Many great things and sometimes terrible things are the result.\u00a0 In the endthe terrible things are very regrettable but the great things are innumerable and remarkable.<\/p>\n America\u2019s \u201ccan do\u201d attitude is unique in the world.<\/p>\n The latest example of American can-do attitude is demonstrated in the Space X launch of the Falcon Heavy.\u00a0 In an early success of Space X, the launch of a rocket, all the young men and women in the control room cheered, as expected.\u00a0 Interestingly the cheers quickly turned to USA! USA! USA!\u00a0 All these young men and women clearly were aware this was only possible in the country they cheered.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Learned helplessness<\/a> is the default attitude of victims who have given up the hope to escape offensive actions.\u00a0 Many recent victims of the current Hollywood scandals mentioned this state of helplessness.\u00a0 Still in a free society, while many careers were ruined, and many lost their meaning and purpose, they were able find some respite outside Hollywood.\u00a0 I am not minimizing the plight of these victims.\u00a0 Just imagine if there was no escape from Weinstein who would have parental custody over his victims.\u00a0 This utter helplessness is the French norm.\u00a0 Whatever group controlled the state controlled the French people.\u00a0 These elites have repeatedly betrayed the French.\u00a0 As a result, France was invaded in 1815, 1870, and, of course in 1940.<\/p>\n Luckily for the helpless French,in 1944, American boys, raised with guns, did not hesitate to take the Normandy beaches.\u00a0 America has never run from a justified fight.\u00a0 In a way the French owe much to the Bill of Rights. If not for the American Bill of Rights, the French would be speaking German.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The terrorist on the train to Paris did not expect to meet Americans on August 21, 2015.\u00a0 There were many French men and women on the train.\u00a0 French official policy is a far cry from the America\u2019s \u201cRun–Hide– Fight\u201d.\u00a0 The French State recommends \u201cEscape–Hide– Alert.\u201d Fighting is not part of the vocabulary. \u00a0The difference between Run and Escape is also telling.\u00a0 One usually runs to call for reinforcement; escape or flight reminds, again, helplessness.\u00a0 The one thing the French cannot escape is their government.<\/p>\n Another difference is the attitude toward entrepreneurship.\u00a0 In the US being successful means having a business.\u00a0 The business can be large, it can be tiny, but every citizen strives to have their own business.\u00a0 Even a young employee thinks about running their own business, hence the incredible dynamism of the US economy.\u00a0 An American strives to gain a sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n The French man instead is content the moment he is able to take care of himself and his family.<\/p>\n In France, one is successful if one finds a good position in a renowned company. Plan B is to be a government employee.\u00a0 There are so many government positions to feed the all-powerful State.<\/p>\n Adieu l\u2019 Entrepreneur!\u00a0 It is rumored a US president told a British Prime Minister: \u201cThe trouble with the French is that they don\u2019t have a word for entrepreneur.\u201d\u00a0 This is not true; there is a word, but only in the dictionary, not in the life plans of the French people.<\/p>\n By the end of 2017, and 10 years of deployment in Afghanistan, the French lost 70 soldiers.\u00a0 From 2015 to 2017 the French lost 130 citizens\u2019 lives in Paris and over 400 wounded to which one must add 86 dead and 450 wounded in Nice.\u00a0 It is significantly safer to be a soldier in a war zone than a citizen in his own country.<\/p>\n The French Army is often deployed, in France!\u00a0 A necessity because the citizenry is constitutionally prohibited to keep and bear arms, and judicially sanctioned in most self defense cases.<\/p>\n France does not have a Third Amendment, only Article 3 of the Declaration of Man.\u00a0<\/a>The French Revolution started the same year the US Constitution was adopted.\u00a0 Lafayette and others who participated in both, probably intended to establish a very similar model.\u00a0 That was not to be.\u00a0 Instead the revolution descended into horror.\u00a0 For two years the first republic decided to, officially, govern by terror.\u00a0 Snitching was endemic.\u00a0 You could lose your head in \u201ctrial by gossip\u201d.\u00a0 The mob, with all its renowned wisdom, was in charge.\u00a0 Only those with the lowest possible profile survived.\u00a0 Those in charge of the terror, inevitably also lost their heads.\u00a0 The carnage of the first republic left the country with only a handful of natural leaders.\u00a0 In 1804, to the people\u2019s relief the republic gave birth to an empire, the ultimate evidence of the failure of this social experiment.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
The fateful differences<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDifferent bearings lead to different places<\/h1>\n
American \u201ccan do\u201d attitude<\/h2>\n
<\/a> Here we have a recent (2002) American citizen who could never have done what he did in any other country.\u00a0 Elon Musk started a software company, from there he established a successful online financial service company, then started a space company while also developing a very successful, and disrupting electric car company, not to mention a \u201cboring\u201d company.\u00a0 Where else but America can a man park his own car in orbit around Mars using the most powerful rocket from Earth, while the radio plays David Bowie and the screen honors Douglas Adams.This kind of panache has not been heard of since Edmond Rostand created Cyrano de Bergerac.<\/p>\nFrench \u201clearned helplessness\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/a>One can only wonder if the Nazis would have paraded as comfortably on the Champs Elysees if, in France there was \u201ca rifle behind every blade of grass\u201d.\u00a0 What could the French people have achieved if they had America\u2019s Bill of Rights?\u00a0 We certainly will never know.\u00a0 I believe, if every French man had a rifle, Dunkirk would have ended very differently.\u00a0 I believe this because the same French men in 1914, rose to the occasion when in taxis and cars they moved an army north to the river Marne to save France from yet another major blunder by the incompetent elites.\u00a0 With only their cars they turned the tide of the war; imagine the possibilities if they had guns.<\/p>\nContemporary evidence of the difference<\/h2>\n
The Train attack<\/h3>\n
<\/a>One Frenchman, (on the left on the picture) actually participated in neutralizing the terrorist armed with AK 47 and a lot of ammunition.\u00a0 We cannot be sure of the percentage of Frenchmen who attacked versus the number of those who froze.\u00a0 The percentage of the US men who were there is easy to calculate.\u00a0 All of them charged, at once.\u00a0 They were not armed like their opponent, yet they charged anyway.\u00a0 The underlying reason for this is that these young men grew up uninhibited in a country where people are expected to fight for what is right, where courage is rewarded.\u00a0 They were born and raised in the home of the brave and the land of the free.\u00a0 The second amendment has indeed far reaching benefits in the American psyche.\u00a0 The other French people in the train can hardly be blamed, they have been conditioned to never, ever stand for what is right and instead wait for the state to send its police or, these days, its army.<\/p>\nEntrepreneurship<\/h3>\n
<\/a>One is never safe from the rule of the mob.\u00a0 In a country where there are no firearms the mob, every bad guy and his brother, know they are invincible until the police arrive.\u00a0 They know the police are always several minutes away and they need only seconds to strike.\u00a0 Business negotiations between unions and a corporation as powerful as Air France can quickly devolve into a melee where one is happy to lose only his shirt.\u00a0 You have to be a masochist to start your his own business, or keep it going.\u00a0 According to the World Bank, the USA is the 8th<\/sup> country in which setting up business is the easiest.\u00a0 The top country is New Zealand, while France is 29th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
State of war<\/h3>\n
<\/a> What checks and balances are possible, or even imaginable, when the army is routinely deployed in the street?\u00a0 The first words of the French Constitution are not: \u201cWe the People\u201d.\u00a0 For now the French accept living in a Police state for, you guessed it, their own security.\u00a0 Well at least this this army of occupation speaks French.\u00a0 It certainly makes communicating easier.<\/p>\n