-Caveat Lector-
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that
Lincoln was our greatest president because his war
ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other
side of the story -- the side that reflects poorly on the
government -- somehow gets lost.
-- Richard J. Maybury, The Abe Lincoln Hoax
~~for educational purposes only~~
[Title 17 U.S.C. section 107]
Beheading the "Great Messiah"
by Karen De Coster
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 stuggling 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. 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, 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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