[Peace-discuss] Beheading Lincoln

[E. Wayne Johnson]

...proceeding from the preceding from sublime to ...er...less subtle...

Beheading the Great Messiah
Karen DeCoster
Feb 12, 2001

Abraham Lincoln, as most of us were told in Mr. Smith’s 9^th -grade 
history class, was a God-sent savior, a brilliant, articulate, and 
diversity-loving individual, and the Messiah of the great "Union." Most 
of us were brainwashed on enchanting quotations from the "great man from 
the little log cabin." This week celebrates his birthday, and may he be 
remembered for what he truly was. So let me begin a short and biased 
Lincoln diatribe, and may it rattle Abe’s grave and leave him forever 
unsettled.

Lincoln was a ruthless dictator of the most contemptible sort. A 
conniving and manipulative man, and a scoundrel at heart, he was nowhere 
near what old guard historians would have us believe.

Lincoln has been transformed into the indomitable icon of the 
American Union. But yet, this beast ruled the country by presidential 
decree,exercised dictatorial powers over a free people, and proceeded to 
wage war without a declaration from Congress. Lincoln blocked Southern 
shipping ports, justifying his actions by saying "he would enforce all 
laws and collect all revenues due the North." The blockades were an act 
of war. He set his Northern Army upon the South at Fort Sumter, and set 
in motion one of the most brutal attacks ever upon freedom by 
maneuvering the South into firing the first shot at their Northern 
aggressors.

However, Mr. Smith’s textbook would have us believe that Lincoln was a 
preservationist of sorts, a man dedicated to preserving the grandeur of 
State ideals. Most 9^th -graders don’t have the intellect to ask what is 
so glorious about State ideals. Instead, they absorb just enough to make 
it into ignorant adulthood. In fact, if they had questioned these 
teachings, they would have discovered that Lincoln was a consummate con 
man, manipulator, and a State-serving miscreant.

In the march through Georgia during Lincoln’s War of Northern 
Aggression, he and Sherman carved out a murderous campaign, maiming 
innocent civilians and setting a precedent for the next century’s bloody 
genocides that followed. A fine exemplar was he, the Communists might say.

As if the pure evil of the war to subjugate the Southern states 
struggling for independence was not unscrupulous enough, Lincoln was 
hardly the watchman of the black race as portrayed by Mr. Smith’s 
ninth-grade history text, either. Lincoln had no fondness for the black 
man, and in fact, often spoke with the candor of that which would make 
him a modern-day racist of satanic proportions.

As Lincoln scholar Tom DiLorenzo points out, Lincoln believed there was 
an inherent inequality between the black and white race, and held a 
conviction that a "superior position" should be assigned to the white 
man over the black man due to this political and social inequality. 
David Duke was forever browbeaten for muttering anything even resembling 
this.

Any good historian at least understands that his goal was not to free 
the slaves, as DiLorenzo correctly states. In 1862, Lincoln published a 
letter stating, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the 
Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save 
the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save 
it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by 
freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do 
about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to 
save the Union."

Lincoln was the darling candidate of the moneyed industrialists of 
the North. At the core of his political tenets was a government of high 
import taxes, and his Republican party, whom he lead, passed the Morrill 
tariff into law soon after taking office. To quote DiLorenzo, Lincoln 
"even promised in his First Inaugural Address to launch an invasion of 
any state that failed to collect its share of tariffs." He was 
committing himself to collecting customs in the South, even if that 
meant they would secede. The free-market economics of the South were up 
for assault.

Lincoln signed ten more tariff-raising bills throughout his agonizing 
administration. He manipulated the American public into the first income 
tax, he handed out huge land grants and monetary subsidies to 
transcontinental railroads (corporate welfare), and he took the nation 
off the gold standard, allowing the government to have absolute control 
over the monetary system. Then, he virtually nationalized the banking 
system under the National Currency Acts in order to establish a machine 
for printing new money at will and to provide cheap credit for the 
business elite. This mercantilist tyrant ushered in central banking, our 
greatest economic curse to this day.

Furthermore, his "New Army" and the slaughter effort on the South put 
into motion an unprecedented profusion of federal coercion against free 
citizens, both North and South. By way of conscription, he assembled a 
vast army by presidential decree, an act of flagrant misconduct 
which drafted individuals into slavery to the federal government. 
Additionally, any war dissenters or advocates of a peaceful settlement 
with the South were jailed, and, as even Mr. Smith knows, Habeus Corpus 
was abolished for the duration of the war. He then tossed into the 
slammer as many as 30,000 civilians WITHOUT due process of law for 
reasons of criticizing the Lincoln administration, and suppressed 
HUNDREDS of newspapers that did not support his war effort.

After his Army stopped secession in its tracks, Lincoln created 
provisional courts sympathetic to Northern aggression, invented the 
office of Military Governor, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 
which became a propaganda tool for historians in later years, though it 
did not free the slaves in Northern-controlled areas.

All said, Lincoln was a ruthless dictator and he set the precedent for 
what is known as the "Imperial Presidency." He was the most evil, 
damaging, aggressive, abominable, and destructive president ever to defy 
American liberty. Happy Birthday, Abe.



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