The streets of Paris boil with a rage that would not look amiss in 1789. France erupts, not over bread prices or royal excess, but over the revelation that a child murder suspect had a criminal record as thick as a Victorian novel. The public has discovered what the system tried to hide: a man with a history of violence against children was free to kill again.
This is not a failure of the state. It is a feature of the intellectual decadence that has infected our institutions. We have replaced common sense with bureaucratic faith, public safety with legalistic theology.
The mob in the streets is not a lynch mob. It is the voice of a people who have realised that the elites treat them as fools. The parallels to Rome are stark: when the praetorian guard fails, the legions revolt.
France is the canary in the coal mine of Western civilisation. The question is whether we will listen or continue to declaim about rights while children die.
