[Peace-discuss] Beheading Lincoln

[Morton K. Brussel]

Is this the pen name of Jefferson Davis?


On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:35 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> ...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 9th-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 9th-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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