Malarkey, boy. You try to quote a once famous Satanist and can't do it because you can't spell 'thou'. If you aren't even familiar with Spooner's book you shouldn't try to horn in on a discussion of an essay from it. Servant of nine winos under a bridge? Is that what your nick means?
Do you always start with gratuitous insults you pompous sack of bullshit?
I admit that I don't bother to spell check, but I was not quoting Crowley, but Rabelais. I think you will find that Crowley is still a famous Satanist, though dead. No one is horning in here, excepting your fluttering around your betters
I know who Lysander Spooner was, and what his positions were. Taking his theories on the invalidation of compacts seriously is pure Tin Foil territory. He and Ignatious Donelly are the two most notorious American crackpots of the period
Was the War between the States about slavery, NO.
Was Lincoln acting Constitutionally when he attacked the Confederacy, NO.
Does either of those facts make Spooner rational, NO.
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Who is quoting Crowley if indeed he wrote that line.
I know who Lysander Spooner was, and what his positions were. Taking his theories on the invalidation of compacts seriously is pure Tin Foil territory. He and Ignatious Donelly are the two most notorious American crackpots of the period
The Constitution was indeed violated and the seceded states had the rightful power to withdraw whether or not it had been. There's nothing tinfoilish about that. As to your observation about crackpots, all the radical abolitionists were crackpots. Spooner was the least cracked of them all. One of the worst, a man who was clearly insane ,was Thaddeus Stevens. He and his fellow bedbug, Charles Sumner did massive damage by participating in exactly what Spooner describes here. A massive fraud was perpetrated on the American people. It continues to this day.
What is really irrational is denying that what Spooner describes is accurate. He was not alone in his observations. Lunt says the same things without any passionate ranting on the subject.
In the future, when you quote someone, remember to put your quote in quotation marks or italicize it and attribute the lines to the author.