30 Prairial Year VII

And yet again our government isn’t happy with some of the people at the head, I’m starting to notice a trend and my prayers are that this trend does not continue into the next phase; the rolling of heads.  But, to bring you up to the current times, as I know I have a little more insight into our government than many and I have the ability to know of new events as they happen; today Director Jean-Baptiste Treilhard was removed from his position in the Directory.  I guess the Council of Five Hundred wasn’t happy that a former Jacobin was in such a high position in our newest form of government and so declared that his election was illegal and he was replaced this morning with Louis Gohier.  But, it sounds as though they were not happy with just this one removal and wanted to remove two others, which was not formally done, but both men did officially just resign.  I’m assuming because of fear and that is what worries me.  It seems as though we keep repeating the same circle of events over and over again in these last few years.  We are constantly unhappy with our government and it seems as though what little headway we make just ends up going wrong and someone comes up who changes things again and introduces new reforms that then make the people angry and we have a vicious cycle of heads rolling and people being thrown into jail, most of whom are innocent of any crime other than existing or having a certain job or opinion.  We wanted to recreate our government so that we could have more say and be able to make reforms that would help the majority of us that are starving and dying in the streets.  I am lucky to have been born into my status of wealth, even though it has threatened my life in recent years, and I know that most of my fellow Frenchmen are not as lucky as I am.  That is why we wanted change, so that we could be more equal and be proud to be French.  But we are failing at making lasting change in our everyday world, it feels as though the wrong people are in power of our government, they can’t make up their own minds about what should be done and the changes that we wanted aren’t taking effect at all it seems.  The economy is still plummeting and people are still starving.  And where in the world is our freedom?