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February 12, 2001
ALERT: The Abe Lincoln They Didn't Want You to Learn About in School
For Lincoln's birthday, we pass along this essay:
The American Lenin
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@ezlink.com
It's harder and harder these days to tell a liberal from a
conservative -- given the former category's increasingly
blatant hostility toward the First Amendment, and the
latter's prissy new disdain for the Second Amendment --
but it's still easy to tell a liberal from a libertarian.
Just ask about either Amendment.
If what you get back is a spirited defense of the ideas of
this country's Founding Fathers, what you've got is a
libertarian. By shameful default, libertarians have become
America's last and only reliable stewards of the Bill of
Rights.
But if -- and this usually seems a bit more difficult to
most people -- you'd like to know whether an individual is
a libertarian or a conservative, ask about Abraham Lincoln.
Suppose a woman -- with plenty of personal faults herself,
let that be stipulated -- desired to leave her husband:
partly because he made a regular practice, in order to go
out and get drunk, of stealing money she had earned herself
by raising chickens or taking in laundry; and partly because
he'd already demonstrated a proclivity for domestic violence
the first time she'd complained about his stealing.
Now, when he stood in the doorway and beat her to a bloody
pulp to keep her home, would we memorialize him as a hero?
Or would we treat him like a dangerous lunatic who should
be locked up, if for no other reason, then for trying to
maintain the appearance of a relationship where there wasn't
a relationship any more? What value, we would ask, does he
find in continuing to possess her in an involuntary
association, when her heart and mind had left him long
ago?
History tells us that Lincoln was a politically ambitious
lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself to northern
industrialists who were unwilling to pay world prices for
their raw materials and who, rather than practice real
capitalism, enlisted brute government force -- "sell to
us at our price or pay a fine that'll put you out of
business" -- for dealing with uncooperative southern
suppliers. That's what a tariff's all about. In support
of this "noble principle", when southerners demonstrated
what amounted to no more than token resistance, Lincoln
permitted an internal war to begin that butchered more
Americans than all of this country's foreign wars --
before or afterward -- rolled into one.
Lincoln saw the introduction of total war on the American
continent -- indiscriminate mass slaughter and destruction
without regard to age, gender, or combat status of the
victims -- and oversaw the systematic shelling and burning
of entire cities for strategic and tactical purposes. For
the same purposes, Lincoln declared, rather late in the war,
that black slaves were now free in the south -- where he had
no effective jurisdiction -- while declaring at the same
time, somewhat more quietly but for the record nonetheless,
that if maintaining slavery could have won his war for him,
he'd have done that, instead.
The fact is, Lincoln didn't abolish slavery at all, he
nationalized it, imposing income taxation and military
conscription upon what had been a free country before he
took over -- income taxation and military conscription to
which newly "freed" blacks soon found themselves subjected
right alongside newly-enslaved whites. If the civil war was
truly fought against slavery -- a dubious, "politically
correct" assertion with no historical evidence to back it
up -- then clearly, slavery won.
Lincoln brought secret police to America, along with the
traditional midnight "knock on the door", illegally
suspending the Bill of Rights and, like the Latin America
dictators he anticipated, "disappearing" thousands in the
north whose only crime was that they disagreed with him.
To finance his crimes against humanity, Lincoln allowed
the printing of worthless paper money in unprecedented
volumes, ultimately plunging America into a long, grim
depression -- in the south, it lasted half a century --
he didn't have to live through, himself.
In the end, Lincoln didn't unite this country -- that
can't be done by force -- he divided it along lines of an
unspeakably ugly hatred and resentment that continue to
exist almost a century and a half after they were drawn.
If Lincoln could have been put on trial in Nuremburg for
war crimes, he'd have received the same sentence as the
highest-ranking Nazis.
If libertarians ran things, they'd melt all the Lincoln
pennies, shred all the Lincoln fives, take a wrecking ball
to the Lincoln Memorial, and consider erecting monuments to
John Wilkes Booth. Libertarians know Lincoln as the worst
President America has ever had to suffer, with Woodrow
Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson running a
distant second, third, and fourth. [This essay was
written before the appearence of the Clintons. -- ed]
Conservatives, on the other hand, adore Lincoln, publicly
admire his methods, and revere him as the best President
America ever had. One wonders: is this because they'd like
to do, all over again, all of the things Lincoln did to the
American people? Judging from their taste for executions as
a substitute for individual self-defense, their penchant
for putting people behind bars -- more than any other country
in the world, per capita, no matter how poorly it works to
reduce crime -- and the bitter distaste they display for
Constitutional "technicalities" like the exclusionary rule,
which are all that keep America from becoming the world's
largest banana republic, one is well-justified in wondering.
The troubling truth is that, more than anybody else's, Abraham
Lincoln's career resembles and foreshadows that of V.I. Lenin,
who, with somewhat better technology at his disposal,
slaughtered millions of innocents -- rather than mere hundreds
of thousands -- to enforce an impossibly stupid idea which,
in the end, like forced association, was proven by history to
be a resounding failure. Abraham Lincoln was America's Lenin,
and when America has finally absorbed that painful but
illuminating truth, it will finally have begun to recover
from the War between the States.
L. Neil Smith is the award-winning author of "The Probability
Broach", "The Mitzvah" (with Aaron Zelman) and many other books.
Permission to redistribute this article is herewith granted by
the author -- provided that it is reproduced unedited, in its
entirety, and appropriate credit given. This article is on
the Web at http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/abelenin.html
ADDITIONAL READING ABOUT LINCOLN:
Lincoln's Economic Legacy, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo:
[go to http://www.mises.org/ and do a search on Lincoln or
on the author]
Freeing Slaves, Enslaving Free Men, by Jeffrey Rodgers Hummell
The Real Lincoln, by Charles L. C. minor
War for What?, by Francis W. Springer
You can find links to Amazon.com for these book at the web
version of this Alert: http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010212.htm
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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
(Subscribe/UnSubscribe instructions near the end of the message)
February 12, 2001
ALERT: The Abe Lincoln They Didn't Want You to Learn About in School
For Lincoln's birthday, we pass along this essay:
The American Lenin
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@ezlink.com
It's harder and harder these days to tell a liberal from a
conservative -- given the former category's increasingly
blatant hostility toward the First Amendment, and the
latter's prissy new disdain for the Second Amendment --
but it's still easy to tell a liberal from a libertarian.
Just ask about either Amendment.
If what you get back is a spirited defense of the ideas of
this country's Founding Fathers, what you've got is a
libertarian. By shameful default, libertarians have become
America's last and only reliable stewards of the Bill of
Rights.
But if -- and this usually seems a bit more difficult to
most people -- you'd like to know whether an individual is
a libertarian or a conservative, ask about Abraham Lincoln.
Suppose a woman -- with plenty of personal faults herself,
let that be stipulated -- desired to leave her husband:
partly because he made a regular practice, in order to go
out and get drunk, of stealing money she had earned herself
by raising chickens or taking in laundry; and partly because
he'd already demonstrated a proclivity for domestic violence
the first time she'd complained about his stealing.
Now, when he stood in the doorway and beat her to a bloody
pulp to keep her home, would we memorialize him as a hero?
Or would we treat him like a dangerous lunatic who should
be locked up, if for no other reason, then for trying to
maintain the appearance of a relationship where there wasn't
a relationship any more? What value, we would ask, does he
find in continuing to possess her in an involuntary
association, when her heart and mind had left him long
ago?
History tells us that Lincoln was a politically ambitious
lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself to northern
industrialists who were unwilling to pay world prices for
their raw materials and who, rather than practice real
capitalism, enlisted brute government force -- "sell to
us at our price or pay a fine that'll put you out of
business" -- for dealing with uncooperative southern
suppliers. That's what a tariff's all about. In support
of this "noble principle", when southerners demonstrated
what amounted to no more than token resistance, Lincoln
permitted an internal war to begin that butchered more
Americans than all of this country's foreign wars --
before or afterward -- rolled into one.
Lincoln saw the introduction of total war on the American
continent -- indiscriminate mass slaughter and destruction
without regard to age, gender, or combat status of the
victims -- and oversaw the systematic shelling and burning
of entire cities for strategic and tactical purposes. For
the same purposes, Lincoln declared, rather late in the war,
that black slaves were now free in the south -- where he had
no effective jurisdiction -- while declaring at the same
time, somewhat more quietly but for the record nonetheless,
that if maintaining slavery could have won his war for him,
he'd have done that, instead.
The fact is, Lincoln didn't abolish slavery at all, he
nationalized it, imposing income taxation and military
conscription upon what had been a free country before he
took over -- income taxation and military conscription to
which newly "freed" blacks soon found themselves subjected
right alongside newly-enslaved whites. If the civil war was
truly fought against slavery -- a dubious, "politically
correct" assertion with no historical evidence to back it
up -- then clearly, slavery won.
Lincoln brought secret police to America, along with the
traditional midnight "knock on the door", illegally
suspending the Bill of Rights and, like the Latin America
dictators he anticipated, "disappearing" thousands in the
north whose only crime was that they disagreed with him.
To finance his crimes against humanity, Lincoln allowed
the printing of worthless paper money in unprecedented
volumes, ultimately plunging America into a long, grim
depression -- in the south, it lasted half a century --
he didn't have to live through, himself.
In the end, Lincoln didn't unite this country -- that
can't be done by force -- he divided it along lines of an
unspeakably ugly hatred and resentment that continue to
exist almost a century and a half after they were drawn.
If Lincoln could have been put on trial in Nuremburg for
war crimes, he'd have received the same sentence as the
highest-ranking Nazis.
If libertarians ran things, they'd melt all the Lincoln
pennies, shred all the Lincoln fives, take a wrecking ball
to the Lincoln Memorial, and consider erecting monuments to
John Wilkes Booth. Libertarians know Lincoln as the worst
President America has ever had to suffer, with Woodrow
Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson running a
distant second, third, and fourth. [This essay was
written before the appearence of the Clintons. -- ed]
Conservatives, on the other hand, adore Lincoln, publicly
admire his methods, and revere him as the best President
America ever had. One wonders: is this because they'd like
to do, all over again, all of the things Lincoln did to the
American people? Judging from their taste for executions as
a substitute for individual self-defense, their penchant
for putting people behind bars -- more than any other country
in the world, per capita, no matter how poorly it works to
reduce crime -- and the bitter distaste they display for
Constitutional "technicalities" like the exclusionary rule,
which are all that keep America from becoming the world's
largest banana republic, one is well-justified in wondering.
The troubling truth is that, more than anybody else's, Abraham
Lincoln's career resembles and foreshadows that of V.I. Lenin,
who, with somewhat better technology at his disposal,
slaughtered millions of innocents -- rather than mere hundreds
of thousands -- to enforce an impossibly stupid idea which,
in the end, like forced association, was proven by history to
be a resounding failure. Abraham Lincoln was America's Lenin,
and when America has finally absorbed that painful but
illuminating truth, it will finally have begun to recover
from the War between the States.
L. Neil Smith is the award-winning author of "The Probability
Broach", "The Mitzvah" (with Aaron Zelman) and many other books.
Permission to redistribute this article is herewith granted by
the author -- provided that it is reproduced unedited, in its
entirety, and appropriate credit given. This article is on
the Web at http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/abelenin.html
ADDITIONAL READING ABOUT LINCOLN:
Lincoln's Economic Legacy, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo:
[go to http://www.mises.org/ and do a search on Lincoln or
on the author]
Freeing Slaves, Enslaving Free Men, by Jeffrey Rodgers Hummell
The Real Lincoln, by Charles L. C. minor
War for What?, by Francis W. Springer
You can find links to Amazon.com for these book at the web
version of this Alert: http://www.jpfo.org/alert20010212.htm
================================================================
Original Material in JPFO ALERTS is Copyright 2001 JPFO, Inc.
Permission is granted to reproduce this alert in full, so long
as the following JPFO contact information is included:
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PO Box 270143
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Phone: 1-262-673-9745
Orders only: 1-800-869-1884 (toll-free!)
Fax: 1-262-673-9746
Web: http://www.jpfo.org/
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How about you?
http://www.lp.org
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those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither