Your posts speak for themselves......
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > ROTFLMAO! > Another baseless, context-lacking claim. > > What are 'traditional American values'? > > Regard$, > --MJ > > "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is > dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find > criticism subversive" -- Henry Steele Commager. > > > > > At 10:19 AM 6/7/2013, you wrote: > > You apparently do too, as long as they are attacks on traditional American > values, conservatives and the Republican Party in general. > > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah ... you *would* love ad hominem phrases. > > Regard$, > --MJ > > "The cult of Lincoln was founded on 15 April 1865 when a single bullet > altered what otherwise would have been his rightful place alongside > history's bloodiest rulers. Up until the time of his death, Lincoln was > denounced by nearly everyone in Washington, including the men of his own > party and the members of his own Cabinet, as "a more unlimited despot than > the world knows this side of China,"(3) "a despicable tyrant,"(4) "that > original gorilla,"(5) and "a low, cunning clown."(6) He was ridiculed for > his "halting imbecility,"(7) and his Administration was criticized for its > "feebleness, faithlessness and incapacity,"(8) for being "an insult to the > flag, and a traitor to their God,"(9) and for "dragging the Union to > ruin."(10) Of "Ol' Honest Abe" it was asserted that "a hound might hunt Mr. > Lincoln, and never find him by an honest scent."(11) Wendell Phillips, a > leading Republican Abolitionist, viewed Lincoln as "a mere convenience [who > was] waiting, like any other broomstick, to be used."(12)" -- Greg Durand > 3. Wendell Phillips, quoted by Woodward, Meet General Grant, page 276. > 4. New York World, 26 October 1864. > 5. Edwin Stanton, quoted by Edmonds, Facts and Falsehoods, page 18. > 6. Stanton, quoted by Charles L.C. Minor, The Real Lincoln (Wiggins, > Mississippi: Crown Rights Book Company, [1928] 1997), page 42. > 7. Editorial: "A Yearning for the Democratic Party," New York World, 15 > April 1864. > 8. Ibid., 2 June 1864. > 9. Alfred R. Wooten, Attorney-General of Delaware, quoted by New York > Tribune, 4 June 1863. > 10. Wendell Phillips, quoted by ibid. > 11. Wooten, quoted by ibid. > 12. Phillips, speech delivered on 1 August 1862; quoted by Edmonds, Facts > and Falsehoods, page 16. > > > > At 10:11 AM 6/7/2013, you wrote: > > I've never heard the term, "the fever swamp of LewRockwell.com"; but I > love it! > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: Desperate > Neocons Dig Up the Rotted, Smelly Corpse of Lincoln . . . Posted by Thomas > DiLorenzo <[email protected]> on June 7, 2013 07:54 AM > . . . yet again in an amateurish rehash of nineteenth-century Republican > Party propaganda (a.k.a., "Straussianism") in the form of a National Neocon > Review cover story titled "Defending Lincoln." The way to become > politically relevant and win over America's youth, says Rich Lowry (who > apparently will always look like he just started shaving last week) is to > continue to libel and smear Ron Paul and "the fever swamp of > LewRockwell.com" while composing boring, poorly-written, long-winded > apologies for the abolition of civil liberties, crackdowns on free speech, > the imprisoning of dissenters, pervasive spying by the state, the > deportation of political opponents, massive taxation and debt to pay for it > all, centralized, monopolistic government, crony capitalism, and above > all, never-ending aggressive wars all around the world in the name of > "making all men free." > > This of course is all in keeping with the ideology of National Neocon > Review's founder, "former" CIA employee William F. Buckley, Jr., who wrote > in the January 25, 1952 issue of The Commonweal magazine that what America > needed was "the extensive and productive tax laws that are needed to > support a vigorous anti-communist foreign policy . . . . we have got to > accept Big Government for the duration -- for neither an offensive nor a > defensive war can be waged . . . except through the instrumentality of a > totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores . . . . [including] large armies > and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, > and the attendant centralization of power in Washington." (See Murray > Rothbard, "Buckley Revealed" at: > http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard6.html). > This is what it meant to be a "National Review Conservative" (a.k.a., > fascist) in Buckley's time as now. The legitimacy of the > Welfare/Warfare/Police state does not rest upon the Constitution but upon > the myths and legends of Abraham Lincoln perpetrated by Republican Party > hacks and propagandists like Rich Lowry. > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For > options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * > Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active > and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking > news, and more. --- You received this message because you are > subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe > from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to > [email protected]. 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