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To: Silas Hardacre
And where was Spooner? Supporting the KKK

Your claims are yet again wholly unsubstantiated. Spooner never supported the KKK or any other form of racial hatred. He offered his sympathies to the south while they were under military despotism by the north you adore so much.

Spooner was one of the few whites in the mid-19th century who genuinely cared about the plight of the blacks and genuinely considered them equal human beings. Lincoln certainly didn't go that far, nor did even the majority of abolitionists. To Spooner, it was a "self-evident principle of justice and hu­manity" that "the Slaves have a natural right to their liberty." So strongly did he believe in their equal status among humanity that he denounced Lincoln's emancipation proclamation on the grounds that it failed to respect this humanity: "And why did these men abolish slavery? Not from any love of liberty in general -- not as an act of justice to the black man himself, but only "as a war measure," and because they wanted his assistance, and that of his friends, in carrying on the war they had undertaken for maintaining and intensifying that political, commercial, and industrial slavery, to which they have subjected the great body of the people, both black and white."

That you would portray him as a racist and a sympathizer of the KKK and do so without even one single shred of evidence to support either charge demonstrates the depth of your dishonesty, Silas aka titus_fikus aka llan-ddeussant aka mortin_sult aka Held_to_Ransom. One would think that you would learn by now that neither lying nor trolling are tolerated around here yet for some reason you keep returning and keep re-registering for the purpose of doing both.

552 posted on 03/07/2004 12:59:09 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
One would think that you would learn by now that neither lying nor trolling are tolerated around here...

Look who's talking, you falsely accuse me of a crime.

558 posted on 03/07/2004 5:13:22 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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