raiha
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Just to explain my alien presence on a site that many of you probably think I have no right to be on. I have thought I should mind my own business and stick to the International Forum. But your U.S. politics affect me and my children and my grandchildren, only we don’t get to choose a candidate. So please be patient with me.
In my efforts to understand why the U.S.A. conducts itself on the world stage in the bellicose way that it does, I was led to an in-depth study of the so called Civil War.
I came to realize that this terrible tragedy that had happened ONLY 150 YEARS ago, was a MAJOR factor in determining your subsequent behaviour as a nation internationally and nationally.
I pin much of the mess you find yourselves in today on the lapels of the Great Imposter himself.
WHY IS THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE RELEVANT IN TODAY’S POLITICAL CLIMATE AND TODAY’S WORLD?
1. Lincoln ignored the U.S. Constitution to fight an illegal war. Illegal because he did not consult Congress! For those who insist the South started the war at Sumter, remember Lincoln secretly attempted to land troops at Fort Pickens in Florida in violation of a truce existing between the Federals and Confederates. He made Karl Rove look like an amateur in the Dirty Tricks Department when he tricked the South Carolinans to fire the first shot at Fort Sumter (which they tried to apologize for) He started the precedent of pre-emptive war (except it was worse given his was fratricidal).
2. He said contradictory things to different audiences, thereby normalizing the concept of ‘spin.’
3.He is the father of the all-controlling national state. His ideology was spawned out of Hamiltonian Whiggery ie mercantilism. Here, in all its glory, is the blueprint for your runaway corporate imperialistic mayhem.
4. He centralized the banking system.Would the banksters have had as much power tody if the concept of state sovereignty had been allowed to evolve?
5. He printed paper money. The Founding Fathers were against this (apart from Mr Hamilton) He nationalized this system which is inherently inflationary.
6. He lay the groundwork for the establishment of conscription and income taxation as permanent institutions.
7. He ignored the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
8. He illegally declared martial law.
9. He illegally suspended habeus corpus (Guantanamo Bay and maybe FEMA camps coming up!!)
10. He confiscated private property and firearms. (Is it true that the FBI raided Liberty Dollar and swiped your hard drive?)
11. He systematically attacked Northern newspapers and their employees including by imprisonment. Today it is via the “soft” attack. You may suddenly be “unemployed” if you are too outspoken as a 'man of words.'
12. He interfered with and rigged elections in Maryland and elsewhere in the North. (Not that THAT would happen today of course)
13. He censored all telegraph communication. Watch out for that Patriot Act
14. Burning and plundering Southern cities. (Waging war on civilians by bombing, destruction of homes, and confiscation of food ...happens today except we have the added 'bonuses' of progress such as depleted uranium, napalm and cluster bombs)
15. Reaping an enormous political patronage system.
16. Normalizing an atmosphere where large numbers of rapes against Southern women including slaves took place. Wherever you have military forces you have prostitution, venereal disease etc. Today we have Abu Ghraib where Iraqi female prisoners were raped by US soldiers not to mention numerous other horrors.
17. Creating the federal tax bureau.
18. In today's world Lincoln would have had to go to trial for war crimes. "Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified...in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants."
Lee Kennett, "Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumeseh Sherman", p. 286.
These are just the points relevant to today gleaned from Thomas DiLorenzo primarily but substantiated by other writers including lawyer James Ostrowski who posts on LewRockwell.com. Ostrowski drew out several of these points in another article. I have painstakingly checked DiLorenzo's sources over the last year and a half as he has been discredited by people in the Heritage Foundation and the Lincoln Institute as being inaccurate. As an independent researcher on the subject I vouch for DiLorenzo's integrity.
Tim Russert's attempt to publically ridicule Dr Paul has given us a golden opportunity to turn it back on him in a homoeopathic kind of way.
In my efforts to understand why the U.S.A. conducts itself on the world stage in the bellicose way that it does, I was led to an in-depth study of the so called Civil War.
I came to realize that this terrible tragedy that had happened ONLY 150 YEARS ago, was a MAJOR factor in determining your subsequent behaviour as a nation internationally and nationally.
I pin much of the mess you find yourselves in today on the lapels of the Great Imposter himself.
WHY IS THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE RELEVANT IN TODAY’S POLITICAL CLIMATE AND TODAY’S WORLD?
1. Lincoln ignored the U.S. Constitution to fight an illegal war. Illegal because he did not consult Congress! For those who insist the South started the war at Sumter, remember Lincoln secretly attempted to land troops at Fort Pickens in Florida in violation of a truce existing between the Federals and Confederates. He made Karl Rove look like an amateur in the Dirty Tricks Department when he tricked the South Carolinans to fire the first shot at Fort Sumter (which they tried to apologize for) He started the precedent of pre-emptive war (except it was worse given his was fratricidal).
2. He said contradictory things to different audiences, thereby normalizing the concept of ‘spin.’
3.He is the father of the all-controlling national state. His ideology was spawned out of Hamiltonian Whiggery ie mercantilism. Here, in all its glory, is the blueprint for your runaway corporate imperialistic mayhem.
4. He centralized the banking system.Would the banksters have had as much power tody if the concept of state sovereignty had been allowed to evolve?
5. He printed paper money. The Founding Fathers were against this (apart from Mr Hamilton) He nationalized this system which is inherently inflationary.
6. He lay the groundwork for the establishment of conscription and income taxation as permanent institutions.
7. He ignored the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
8. He illegally declared martial law.
9. He illegally suspended habeus corpus (Guantanamo Bay and maybe FEMA camps coming up!!)
10. He confiscated private property and firearms. (Is it true that the FBI raided Liberty Dollar and swiped your hard drive?)
11. He systematically attacked Northern newspapers and their employees including by imprisonment. Today it is via the “soft” attack. You may suddenly be “unemployed” if you are too outspoken as a 'man of words.'
12. He interfered with and rigged elections in Maryland and elsewhere in the North. (Not that THAT would happen today of course)
13. He censored all telegraph communication. Watch out for that Patriot Act
14. Burning and plundering Southern cities. (Waging war on civilians by bombing, destruction of homes, and confiscation of food ...happens today except we have the added 'bonuses' of progress such as depleted uranium, napalm and cluster bombs)
15. Reaping an enormous political patronage system.
16. Normalizing an atmosphere where large numbers of rapes against Southern women including slaves took place. Wherever you have military forces you have prostitution, venereal disease etc. Today we have Abu Ghraib where Iraqi female prisoners were raped by US soldiers not to mention numerous other horrors.
17. Creating the federal tax bureau.
18. In today's world Lincoln would have had to go to trial for war crimes. "Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified...in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants."
Lee Kennett, "Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumeseh Sherman", p. 286.
These are just the points relevant to today gleaned from Thomas DiLorenzo primarily but substantiated by other writers including lawyer James Ostrowski who posts on LewRockwell.com. Ostrowski drew out several of these points in another article. I have painstakingly checked DiLorenzo's sources over the last year and a half as he has been discredited by people in the Heritage Foundation and the Lincoln Institute as being inaccurate. As an independent researcher on the subject I vouch for DiLorenzo's integrity.
Tim Russert's attempt to publically ridicule Dr Paul has given us a golden opportunity to turn it back on him in a homoeopathic kind of way.
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