“July 28: Liberty Leading the People”

Defaced masterpiece retains its full power and meaning against a pointless attack

Eugene Delacroix had an inspiration and a vision.  He was more than a Friend of France, he was her passionate lover. Upon the ejection of another  Bourbon Monarch  following the Three Glorious Days at the end of  July 1830, he conceived and set about bringing form to one of Democracy’s most inspirational pieces of art, his painting of  “Liberty Leading the People”  —  the very same symbol embodied as the great greenish Statue lifting her torch above New York Harbor --- only as presented by Delacroix, full of vitality and action with a Red, White and Blue flag held aloft as a guide-on in her mighty right hand and with an assault weapon in her left, at the ready for her to use against any who would pose a threat to her or her followers..

A recent attempt to deface the great patriotic work of the French Master Delacroix on display at the Louvre only served to bring the image and the imagery back to mind at a time when such perceptions and conceptions are desperately needed both in France and in this country.

It is time for a real “Middle Class” in its true and un-deconstructed  historical sense to say “Enough ! ” to  regimes that tax too much and rule without reason or responsibility. It is time to regain the revolutionary fervor of our democratic republican forefathers; and as free people, to follow the flag of Liberty in a new revolution to restore to us the people what an imposing government has taken away from us since the old.