mon., 3 sept., 2012, very european labor day blasphomets, iii., give us This Day our Daily Curse

FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” ‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie” ‡‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité” ‡‡‡

GERMAN: “Arbeit macht frei.”  ‡‡‡‡

SPANISH:  “La unica iglesia que ilumina es la que arde.” ‡‡‡‡‡

       ‡ )   “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;  

    ‡‡ )   “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

   ‡‡‡ )   “Forced labor in perpetuity”  —  i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;

 ‡‡‡‡ )   “Work shall make you free.”  —  inscribed above the gates of Nazi death camps, most infamously, Auschwitz  

‡‡‡‡‡ )   “The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”  —  attributed to Piotr Kropotkin, but quoted by Durruti during the Spanish Civil War.  

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