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Thursday, January 21, 2016

LINCOLN AS THE DESPOT

Lincoln may well have been the worst president (along with BHO) by running rough-shod all over the Constitution.

I have said it before and I will say it again, I do not like the guy - other than he stood up to the European bankster establishment by saying no to their ridiculous war loans -  and then took a bullet to the head for his trouble. 

Speaking of trouble..... I get into alot for my position on him.  We (as a nation) have been so brainwashed to full-on worship this fellow, that it is disgusting.  In Washington DC this summer, I did not make the trek to worship his statue of stone.  Not worth the effort.  Almost every monument we have erected in that city is based on a lie.  I should have made the effort on the way to pay respects to the Vietnam Memorial - but that war, as most others are, are based on lies so that some fatcat can line his pockets.  Truly, the god of this world (cough, cough) has used the treasures to make hell.  Most of it, supported by covenant people who should know better.  I am surprised that they did not run President Kimball out on a rail for saying that few of the wars in the day were justified.  None of them in this day are - but we go on blindly waving that damnable flag and imploring that God bless this America that is the most tyrannical nation on the face of and in the the history of this world. 

Just cannot believe what people fall for.....  Are we really that stupid?  Or is it too much flouride in our water.....:

The Terrible Truth About Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War

Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln has been all but deified in America, with a god-like giant statue at a Parthenon-like memorial in Washington. Generations of school children have been indoctrinated with the story that “Honest Abe” Lincoln is a national hero who saved the Union and fought a noble war to end slavery, and that the “evil” Southern states seceded from the Union to protect slavery. This is the Yankee myth of history, written and promulgated by Northerners, and it is a complete falsity. It was produced and entrenched in the culture in large part to gloss over the terrible war crimes committed by Union soldiers in the War Between the States, as well as Lincoln’s violations of the law, his shredding of the Constitution, and other reprehensible acts. It has been very effective in keeping the average American ignorant of the real causes of the war, and the real nature, character and record of Lincoln. Let us look at some unpleasant facts.
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln stated clearly that (1) he had no legal authority to interfere with slavery where it existed, (2) that he had no inclination or intention to do so even if he had the legal authority, (3) that he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, returning runaway slaves escaping to the North to their masters in the South, and (4) that he fully supported the Thirteenth Amendment then being debated in Congress which would protect slavery in perpetuity and was irrevocable. He later famously stated, “Do not paint me with the Abolitionist brush.”

Although there was some opposition to slavery in the country, the government was willing to concede everything the South wanted regarding slavery to keep it in the Union. Given all these facts, the idea that the South seceded to protect slavery is as absurd as the idea that Lincoln fought the war to end slavery. Lincoln himself said in a famous letter after the war began that his sole purpose was to save the Union, and not to either save or end slavery; that if he could save the Union without freeing a single slave, he would. Nothing could be clearer.
For decades before the war, the South, through harsh tariffs, had been supplying about 85% of the country’s revenue, nearly all of which was being spent in the North to boost its economy, build manufacturing, infrastructure, railroads, canals, etc. With the passage of the 47% Morrill Tariff the final nail was in the coffin. The South did not secede to protect slavery, although certainly they wished to protect it; they seceded over a dispute about unfair taxation, an oppressive Federal government, and the right to separate from that oppression and be governed “by consent”, exactly the same issues over which the Founding Fathers fought the Revolutionary War. When a member of Lincoln’s cabinet suggested he let the South go in peace, Lincoln famously replied, “Let the South go? Where, then, would we get our revenue!” He then launched a brutal, empirical war to keep the free and sovereign states, by force of arms, in the Union they had created and voluntarily joined, and then voluntarily left. This began his reign of terror.
Lincoln was the greatest tyrant and despot in American history. In the first four months of his presidency, he created a complete military dictatorship, destroyed the Constitution, ended forever the constitutional republic which the Founding Fathers instituted, committed horrendous crimes against civilian citizens, and formed the tyrannical, overbearing and oppressive Federal government which the American people suffer under to this day. In his first four months, he
  1. Failed to call Congress into session after the South fired upon Fort Sumter, in direct violation of the Constitution.
  2. Called up an army of 75,000 men, bypassing the Congressional authority in direct violation of the Constitution.
  3. Unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus, a function of Congress, violating the Constitution. This gave him the power, as he saw it, to arrest civilians without charge and imprison them indefinitely without trial—which he did.
  4. Ignored a Supreme Court order to restore the right of habeas corpus, thus violating the Constitution again and ignoring the Separation of Powers which the Founders put in place exactly for the purpose of preventing one man’s using tyrannical powers in the executive.
  5. When the Chief Justice forwarded a copy of the Supreme Court’s decision to Lincoln, he wrote out an order for the arrest of the Chief Justice and gave it to a U.S. Marshall for expedition, in violation of the Constitution.
  6. Unilaterally ordered a naval blockade of southern ports, an act of war, and a responsibility of Congress, in violation of the Constitution.
  7. Commandeered and closed over 300 newspapers in the North, because of editorials against his war policy and his illegal military invasion of the South. This clearly violated the First Amendment freedom of speech and press clauses.
  8. Sent in Army forces to destroy the printing presses and other machinery at those newspapers, in violation of the Constitution.
  9. Arrested the publishers, editors and owners of those newspapers, and imprisoned them without charge and without trial for the remainder of the war, all in direct violation of both the Constitution and the Supreme Court order aforementioned.
  10. Arrested and imprisoned, without charge or trial, another 15,000-20,000 U.S. citizens who dared to speak out against the war, his policies, or were suspected of anti-war feelings. (Relative to the population at the time, this would be equivalent to President G.W. Bush arresting and imprisoning roughly 150,000-200,000 Americans without trial for “disagreeing” with the Iraq war; can you imagine?)
  11. Sent the Army to arrest the entire legislature of Maryland to keep them from meeting legally, because they were debating a bill of secession; they were all imprisoned without charge or trial, in direct violation of the Constitution.
  12. Unilaterally created the state of West Virginia in direct violation of the Constitution.
  13. Sent 350,000 Northern men to their deaths to kill 350,000 Southern men in order to force the free and sovereign states of the South to remain in the Union they, the people, legally voted to peacefully withdraw from, all in order to continue the South’s revenue flow into the North.
These are just a few of the most egregious things Lincoln did during his despotic presidency. He set himself up as a tyrannical dictator with powers never before utilized or even imagined by any previous administration. During this four years of terrible war he was one of the greatest despots the world has ever known, his tyranny focused against his own countrymen, both North and South. He was called a despot and tyrant by many newspapers and citizens both North and South, until he had imprisoned nearly all those who dared to simply speak out against his unconstitutional usurpations of power. Those who disagreed with him were branded as “traitors”, just as were the brave and honorable men in the states which had legally seceded from the Union over just such issues as these criminal abuses of power by the Federal government.
Four months after Fort Sumter, when Lincoln finally called Congress back into session, no one dared oppose anything he wanted or speak out against him for fear of imprisonment, so completely had he entrenched his unilateral power and silenced his other many critics.
The Union army, under Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and President Lincoln, committed active genocide against Southern civilians—this is difficult for some to believe, but it is explicit in their writings and dispatches at the time and indisputable in their actions. Tens of thousands of Southern men, women and children—civilians—white and black, slave and free alike—were shot, hanged, raped, imprisoned without trial, their homes, lands and possessions stolen, pillaged and burned, in one of the most horrific and brutal genocides ever inflicted upon a people anywhere; but the Yankee myth of history is silent in these well-documented matters. For an excellent expose of these war crimes and their terrible extent, see War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by Walter Brian Cisco.
Only after the Union had suffered two years of crushing defeats in battle did Lincoln resolve to “emancipate” the slaves, and only as a war measure, a military tactic, not for moral or humanitarian purposes. He admitted this, remarking, “We must change tactics or lose the game.” He was hoping, as his original draft of the document shows, that a slave uprising would occur, making it harder for Southerners to continue the war. His only interest in freeing the slaves was in forcing the South to remain in the Union. His Emancipation Proclamation was denounced by Northerners, Southerners and Europeans alike for its absurdity and hypocrisy; for, it only “freed” the slaves in the seceded states—where he could not reach them—and kept slavery intact in the North and the border states—where he could have freed them at once.
The Gettysburg Address, the most famous speech in American history, is an absurd piece of war rhetoric and a poetry of lies. We were not “engaged in a great Civil War, to see whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, can long endure.” The South was engaged in a War of Independence from a tyrannical North, and after having legally seceded, wished only “to be let alone.” The North was engaged in a war of empire, to keep the South involuntarily under its yoke. Government “of the people, by the people and for the people” would not have “perished from the earth” had the North lost the war; on the contrary, it perished in the United States when the North won the war; for, freely representative government, by consent of the governed, is exactly what the South was fighting for and exactly what Lincoln’s military victory destroyed.
The checks and balances of powers, the separation of powers, the constitutional constraints so carefully and deliberately put into place by the Founding Fathers, had all been destroyed in Lincoln’s first months. The Republic which the Founders gave us had been completely destroyed and a new nation-state was set up; one in which the free and sovereign States would afterward be only vassals and tributaries, slaves to an all-powerful, oppressive Federal government. This new nation-state is completely different in both nature and consequence to the original American Republic. One only has to look around today to see the end results and legacy of Lincoln’s war, his destruction of freedom, and his institution of despotic, centralized governmental power and tyranny.
In retrospect, it is a tragedy that John Wilkes Booth did not act four years earlier. Slavery would have ended naturally, as it has everywhere else (except in African and Arab states); the American Republic, liberty, and 700,000 lives would have been saved, and untold thousands of those young men would have lived to contribute their ingenuity, inventions, creativity and talents to the political, economic, literary, scientific and social legacy of our people. And the greatest despotic tyrant in American history would never have gained the foothold of power or been able to establish the oppressive and omnipotent Federal government we all suffer under today.

8 comments:

  1. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Without reading all the books, journals, and articles written about Lincoln, and trusting in the Spirit to discern truth from overly biased views or outright lies, I cannot give an accurate assessment of Abraham Lincoln.

    Was he a perfect president? No. We have never had one. George Washington was probably be best president.

    The truth is Mr. Lincoln was put into place by God, and it was God's will that our country NOT be divided at that time.

    I do not recall other "despots" being referred to so often in a positive light by general authorities. For some examples, where general authorities referenced Lincoln, read:

    Mark E Peterson, "The Savor or Men" https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1976/10/the-savor-of-men?lang=eng

    Spencer W. Kimball, "The Davids and the Goliaths" https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1974/10/the-davids-and-the-goliaths?lang=eng

    Thomas S Monson, "He is Risen" https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1981/10/he-is-risen?lang=eng

    Marvin J Ashton, "The Word is Committment" https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1983/10/the-word-is-commitment?lang=eng

    And, if you want others, just search "Abraham Lincoln" and the Church's website.

    While some, or perhaps all, of the above mentioned items mentioned by Michael Hutcheson could have happened as his article describes, I saw no citations and no references, except for a single referral to a one book. My doubt-o-meter rises when an article rings so much of opinion, bias, and does not provide supporting and substantiated facts in the form of citations, which I can then read for myself.

    Too often "facts" are misrepresented, misquoted, or completely taken out of context. For a great example, just consider how often the same Bible scriptures are used to justify beliefs. Or, how anti-Mormons often cite only part of some scripture, but conveniently leave out others.

    [to be continued]

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    Another issue I have with Hutcheson's article is it paints the South as the "victims" when I doubt they were completely innocent in all matters leading up to the Civil War. The statement, "Yankee myth of history, written and promulgated by Northerners, and it is a complete falsity" is in itself a false statement as there is no proof that the history is completely false. The article almost makes Lincoln look like a Hitler.

    Did war crimes happen during the Civil War? I have no doubt of it. I don't think a war has ever occurred where atrocities were not committed by at least one side. Often there are offending parties on both sides.

    Most of us should understand that the victor writes history, so I am certain we do not have all the facts, and many of the "facts" we have are spun in favor of the North. As has been said, and I'll paraphrase, there are three sides to the story: what each side believes, and what really happened (the truth).

    We must also be careful what we choose to believe as true. It is very easy to make statements of "fact" which are based on opinions of "experts," so-called witnesses to the "fact," or data that is spun to match the desired "fact". Remember, the enemy of good is doing all he can to make good look bad.

    Be careful with how quick and easy it is to make a judgment. We must withhold our judgments as much as we can, and, when we do judge, we must do so righteously, with guidance from the Holy Ghost. Our own biases (we all have them), beliefs, upbringing, history, family, and many other factors affect how we judge.

    We should be slow to anger, and slow to judge.

    "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." (3 Nephi 14:2).

    As for me, I know Lincoln was far from perfect, but I believe he was a generally good, God-fearing man, and did the best he could without the Gospel in his life. If General Authorities have used Lincoln as an example for good, then he was most likely not as bad as Hutcheson (and others) are trying to make him out to be.

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    1. Thank you for your comment. I stated my case eloquently in defense of President Lincoln in "Lincoln and the Mormon Question" post the last time IRAQ and others made railings against the man whose temple work has been done personally by a prophet of God when the former President appeared with other RIGHTEOUS leaders appeared to President Wilford Woodruff for their temple work to be done after ALL THEY HAD SACRIFICED on behalf of this land blessed by God to be an inheritance to the righteous.

      Don't you have ANYTHING better to do IRAQ than trash talk a deceased endowed member of the Church who can't defend himself at present but will surely meet you at the bar of God and be given a fair chance to be weighed against the balance? And if he's found innocent before God's eyes, you will have used this blog to slander the name of a good, God-fearing man and you will be accountable!

      Oh, and Lincoln was a lawyer to boot so he will do pretty good stating the facts.

      I am FAST losing respect for you. I'm coming to see you as a self righteous pot stirrer and no longer desire to visit this contentious blog. More and more I leave with an icky feeling and feel much better when I go days without visiting.

      I'm sure it makes no never mind to you or anyone here and I truly don't care because I've realized I've much better things to be doing too. Things that bring me closer to God and infuse me with His Spirit. This blog doesn't fill that need anymore. It used to. Sad to go but seriously okay with it. Good luck brother.


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    2. If the Civil War proved anything it is that the central government can force the people to accept any abuse, standards, beliefs, morals, it want's to enforce upon the people with impunity, and they have no right to withdraw from a corrupt government.

      Have you ever considered for a moment what that means for us today. Look at Common Core, drafting women into the military just a few of the creeping infringements that are dramatically changing our lives. Eventually we will have to live in fear of being turned in for not keeping our thermostats up, opposing drafting our daughters into the military, withdrawing our children from the schools to prevent them from being further contaminated in so many ways, it is endless. And yet the sheep will do nothing to oppose it. If the people don't, do not think the state governments will do anything to protect us. They are a part of the federal monster. They have, along with the rest of the people accepted the story line presented by the industrial government media complex, and academia that have created and maintain the story of one government indivisible, under the barrow of a gun.

      It is interesting

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  3. Thank you so much for this post. It is so hard to find the truth of this conflict. All I read does not give any rational excuse for the war, just some machinations where in the federal government were trying to control or restrict the sale or use of slaves relative to the different counties in the south, which counties held the ultimate control of slave trade.
    I have a picture of my third grade class, with little blue capes with little blue hats (Northerners) in some sort of memorial of the Civil war, we sang some civil war songs. We have been so deceived for so long. I think of that fascinating propaganda film by such talented people as Ken Burns and none of this was ever mentioned. I wish there was a way to do a film of these lies.
    I would like to take a tank and do some target practice on Mount Rushmore's image of Lincoln and add to that the great socialist Regressive Teddy Roosevelt.

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  4. It seems interesting that people will consider the past prophets and apostles of the church of this dispensation to be objective, all-knowing without prejudice. Im sorry they are human with there own short comings as referencing the general authorities comments in favor of Lincoln above. Just ask Koyle about the shabby way he was treated by the then church leadership with all that I have read about him he was not receiving revelation for the church - his was only the Releif Mine that he sacrificed his whole life, without enriching himself. Even Joseph Smith Jr. was willing to commune with all that had an opposite view, something our church leadership can no longer do.

    As to the spirit, the thing I realized early on in life in my early teen years in an early 1960s' Myton ward sunday school class I suddenly silenced my juvenile mouth as aspects of the gospel plan were laid out and the spirit opened my mind and heart and I realized that the gospel was so logical and obvious. I use that logic as a datum point to measure all else. I believe that God fully expects us to use our minds learn to look more objectively without prejudice. this is a very scary path to take, everything must be reevaluated with new information.
    I knew there was something rotten in Denmark when so many lives were taken in that hideous war. Lincoln is not innocent in this, I gave him the benefit of the doubt as to going along with the predominant prideful mindset of the day. If these things are true, he would truly be a great despot. But the south had it's own prideful issues as well. Both sides were cursing for a bruising.

    I find it easier to believe that the federal government with a complicit academia has done considerable spinning of the American story line to reinforce the authority of the federal government over the state governments - piece by piece
    since the beginning of this country man (big industry, finance, greedy politicians etal) has worked to empower and enrich themselves through government. The favoring of the popular vote over a representative form of government has made it easier to deceive - the reason why we the people are powerless to effect any change in the direction of the government.

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    1. I'm hoping you actually read all of my post, or both posts as it turned out, because I never said anything about saying the past apostles and prophets were "objective, all-knowing without prejudice." I agree, they were definitely human, just like us. And, despite what many people seem to believe, Koyle was human as well and far from perfect.

      I find the prophesies and dreams attributed to Koyle very interesting, and was particularly fascinated with the recent partial fulfillment of a prophesy, with 3 apostles passing in close succession. However, we do not have any first-hand accounts, that is we don't have any of Koyle's prophesies or dreams recorded by him. Everything I have read states that what we have is the result of what others recorded. According to the reports, he was not treated well by many general authorities. But, we do not have his account nor the accounts of the general authorities involved, just the biased views of those reporting.

      Similarly, we do not have all the facts regarding Lincoln and thus we risk being judged in a similar manner if we are too quick to issue judgment. If Lincoln has accepted the Gospel and received the ordinances of salvation via proxy, is it right for us to condemn him?

      Please note, I am not condoning wicked actions, if as others imply, he was a party to them. But, if the Lord has forgiven him--which would be part of him receiving the Gospel and ordinance of baptism via temple proxy--should we not be more charitable in what we say about him?

      What I was saying in my earlier posts is General Authorities, including our current living prophet, have used Lincoln as a positive example in their teachings. But, I have yet to hear any our church leaders use Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Genghis Kan, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Napoleon, or any true despot, dictator, or tyrant as a positive example.

      As you said, and I completely agree, both sides were cruising for a bruising. As most on this site should know, Joseph Smith prophesied of the Civil War. My personal thought is Lincoln was raised up and even guided by God to become President at that time. He was not a brilliant military commander. Certainly he made mistakes. But he was to be the President at that time.

      Lincoln bashing reminds me of those who complain about and trash Columbus. Columbus was another person who was far from perfect, and had plenty of faults. But he was guided by God, and acted the best he knew how, with the little bit of Light he had. If any have doubts Columbus was guided by God and raised up to do what he did, then they haven't read 1 Nephi 13, where verse 12 seems to describe Columbus.

      And, I agree with you that the federal government along with academia (as a whole) have done much "to reinforce the authority of the federal government" and to take away the rights of the states and its citizens.

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  5. Lincoln was also such a weak military leader that his generals felt free to disregard their orders much of the time. Lincoln never had anybody court martialed or relieved of command for disregarding orders. The worst Lincoln would do is reassign disobedient generals to other units in other parts of the theater of war.

    What's even worse is that he would write letters chastising them for disregarding orders but never send the letter! And people call him a great leader because he didn't tightly control his military!

    The real miracle of the War of Northern Aggression is that the Army didn't get tired of tolerating Lincoln, overthrow him, and turn the US into another banana republic.

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