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Jon Stewart's Lying Lincolnites
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Thomas DiLorenzo (12 March 2014)
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LIE #2: The Judge also pointed out that Lincoln sent federal marshals to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their owners in the South. The panel of liars chanted in unison, “It’s not true.” Well, yes it is true. The best scholarship on the issue of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which Lincoln very strongly supported in his first inaugural address, is Stanley Campbell, The Slave Catchers (University of North Carolina Press, 1972/2011). Campbell writes that “The Fugitive Slave Law remained in force and was executed by federal marshals” all during the Lincoln regime, just as Judge Napolitano said.
Campbell also writes this: “In May, 1862, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled that the Fugitive Slave Law was applicable to the District of Columbia as it was to any of the states. The docket of the court for 1862 listed the claims of twenty-eight different slave owners for 101 runaway slaves. In the two months following the court’s decision, 26 fugitive slaves were returned to their owners from the fugitive slave tribunal in the nation’s capital.”
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Tom Woods Smacks Down Jon Stewart's Marxist "Experts"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/tom-woods-smacks-down-jon-stewarts-marxist-experts/
Thomas DiLorenzo (13 March 2014)
Here in this video.
Calling Stewart’s parade of chuckling jackasses “Marxists” is not name calling (nor is calling them “chuckling jackasses”) but the accurate use of the English Language. One of his “experts” who was brought on the show to shout “It’s not true!” to most of what Judge Napolitano said about Lincoln was the self-described Marxist historian Eric Foner who, in his 1988 book, The Story of American Freedom, lavishly praised the Communist Party USA as a “cultural front that helped to redraw the boundaries of American freedom.” In a February 11, 1991 article in The Nation magazine entitled “Lincoln’s Lesson” Foner rather hysterically opposed the break-up of the Soviet Union and implored Mikhail Gorbachev to treat Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Georgia the same way Lincoln treated the Southern states — by waging total war on their civilian populations. He called the peaceful secession of the Soviet states a “crisis” that would destroy the “laudable goal” of Soviet socialism. These people should be forced to display “overreaching loyalty to the Soviet Union,” Jon Stewart’s chief Lincoln expert said, and that “no leader of a powerful nation” should allow such a thing as “the dismemberment of the Soviet Union.”
With an “intellectual hero” like this it is not surprising that Jon Stewart would describe himself as “an atheist and a socialist.” (In the old days, such people were referred to as “godless communists.” Today they are known in some circles as “Cultural Marxists” since “cultural” sounds better than “godless” even though it is less accurate. The younsters in Stewart’s studio audience mindlessly clap and cheer for him because they have been thoroughly brainwashed in this type of political correctness since kindergarten).
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