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Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice
Lew Rockwell.com ^ | August 19, 2004 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Posted on 08/20/2004 5:43:21 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861

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To: capitan_refugio
name redacted held some of the same beliefs as Jesus. You make a specious argument.

Did Jesus ever state that blacks or Jews were inferior? Did he ever state that one race was superior? Name redacted might have quoted the Bible, but it was for political purposes, he certainly wasn't a believer.

421 posted on 08/31/2004 11:26:06 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: GOPcapitalist
"Then why do you post so much content from left wing haters, and that not to denounce them but rather to use their arguments in making your own?"

It is one thing to disagree with the politics, or supposed politics, of a source. It is another thing entirely to make comparisons to recognized evil.

I have posted nothing - NOTHING - that can be construed as hate-filled by any person with half a brain. You may not like the content because it is contrary to your own beliefs; you may not like some academic affiliation of the source author; you may not even understand the point being made; but, don't even try to suggest that I quote from "left-wing haters" without documenting your accusation.

PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

422 posted on 08/31/2004 11:31:12 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: GOPcapitalist
"I have posted an inquiry to you seeking a determination of your position on Hitler's statement in light of other disturbing comments you made to LG."

Those comments being ...?

423 posted on 08/31/2004 11:32:43 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: GOPcapitalist
Instead of interpreting it as an alleged Christian relic, he accepted it as an occultist source of power premised loosely upon the nordic legend in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzifal. Reports suggest that Hitler became maniacal in his obsession over the lance, which he thought possessed some ancient nordic occult power of conquest and victory.

Bump. Changed to "Ark of the Covenant" for a movie starring Harrison Ford.

424 posted on 08/31/2004 11:33:26 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: GOPcapitalist
"He did so for propaganda value."

Now you're on the right track. He did a lot of thing for propaganda value.

425 posted on 08/31/2004 11:34:18 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: TexConfederate1861

BTTT


426 posted on 08/31/2004 11:35:45 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices; nolu chan
Albert Bledsoe, one of your favorite authors, wrote "An Essay on Liberty and Slavery." In it he justified secession as a constitutional right and considered slavery as a moral right sanctioned by the Bible.

I'm pretty sure it has been reprinted by Crown, so that people like you can maintain the facade of sanctimonious Southern morality. No doubt nolu chan, collector of similar literature, can provide you with a copy. Read it to understand the foundation of your beliefs.

427 posted on 08/31/2004 11:45:46 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio
It is one thing to disagree with the politics, or supposed politics, of a source. It is another thing entirely to make comparisons to recognized evil.

That recognized evil became pertinent to this discussion the moment you responded to LG's documentation of the Fuehrerprinzip argument with a gratuitous slur against him for associating the common elements of that argument with the Lincoln one. You chose this course of debate. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I have posted nothing - NOTHING - that can be construed as hate-filled by any person with half a brain.

You have made slanders upon other posters with unfounded accusations of bigotry and hate though, AND you have remained curiously silent as to whether you agree with Hitler's position while simultaneously demanding that everybody else denounce him. While I do not explicitly decry you as a bigot, enough reason exists for it to have crossed my mind and for me to make a fair inquiry about your beliefs, to which you have yet to respond.

You may not like the content because it is contrary to your own beliefs; you may not like some academic affiliation of the source author; you may not even understand the point being made; but, don't even try to suggest that I quote from "left-wing haters" without documenting your accusation. PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

Documentation #1: You extensively quoted and defended Finkelman, a left wing reparationist best known for being the SPLC's hired gun in the ten commandments lawsuit.

Documentation #2: You extensively quoted and defended Farber, a left of center loose constructionist law professor at Berkeley.

I "put up" this evidence here just as I put it up a long time ago. Now it's time for you to shut up and answer the question: do you agree or disagree with Hitler?

428 posted on 08/31/2004 11:48:37 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: capitan_refugio
Those comments being ...?

Your snide remark likening the fact that he raised a perfectly valid and intellectually accurate point about the Fuehrerprinzip's role in the Lincolnian unionism argument to a shrill blanket accusation of nazism.

429 posted on 08/31/2004 11:50:50 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: capitan_refugio; GOPcapitalist

Are you two going to produce a Cliff Notes version of your discussion? Please include a preface from each of you stating your position on what exactly Lincoln did or didn't do to America, Americans and the Constitution. lol


430 posted on 08/31/2004 11:52:25 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
It's a problem a lot of Lincoln lovers face.

No kidding! I witnessed the same exact thing in the last few moments of #3's presence here. He started sliding into the neo-nazi hole he dug himself and it really turned to desparation. I kept nudging him to the point that he couldn't escape from it and he started reaching for everything and anything he could throw at me to keep his secret covered.

431 posted on 08/31/2004 11:54:35 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices

All from one blood brother...


432 posted on 08/31/2004 11:56:10 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Let's debunk the "Taney was personally opposed to slavery" myth.

"At the same time, one must put aside the curious notion that Taney was at heart an antislavery man - a notion that has a long history and retains surprising vitality. The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1857, condemning abusive attacks on the Chief Justice [for his "dreadful" decision], declared, "Mr. Taney, personally, is opposed to slavery in principle and practice.' Frank H. Hodder agreed in 1929. 'Taney,' he wrote, 'was opposed to slavery .... The position he took in the Dred Scott case was the result of a mistaken sense of duty and not of any partiality for slavery.' Charles W. Smith, Jr., asserted in 1936 that Taney, like Jefferson, 'believed slavery wrong and favored gradual emancipation.' According to Walker lewis, in his 1965 biography, 'Slavery violated his conscience. His opposition to abolition was not because he wished to perpetuate slavery but because he believed the abolitionist misguided.' In 1971, Robert M. Spector said of Taney: 'From the standpoint of morality he hated slavery as much as any abolitionist.' This legend of the antislavery Taney rest almost entirely upon two actions taken nearly forty years before the Dred Scott decision. In 1818, he served as a defense attorney for an abolitionist minister and in the process denounced slavery as an evil that must be 'gradually wiped away.' Beginning the same year, Taney emancipated his own slaves to the number of at least weight. Whatever moral conviction may have encouraged these actions, it does not appear again in his public record or his private correspondence. His attitude on the bench was consistently and solicitously proslavery. By 1857 he had become as fanatical in his determination to protect the institution [of slavery] as Garrison was in his determination to destroy it."

Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case, pg 560

433 posted on 08/31/2004 12:05:23 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: 4ConservativeJustices

I equate Hitlerism and Nazism with Satanism. If that's the stuff you enjoy, have at it.


434 posted on 08/31/2004 12:07:04 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio
Albert Bledsoe, one of your favorite authors, wrote "An Essay on Liberty and Slavery." In it he justified secession as a constitutional right and considered slavery as a moral right sanctioned by the Bible.

Never read it but I can guess. The analysis is that Hebrews were allowed to sell their own children into slavery, or themselves to pay for their debts. These slaves were freed in the year of Jubilee. The restriction between their slavery, and others (captives of war) was that they were admonished by God not to rule over another "with rigor" (harshness). I asked #3Fan repeatedly to provide a verse, any verse, whereby God condemns slavery. Jesus healed the centurion's slave, yet never condemned him, in fact He praised him.

I'm pretty sure it has been reprinted by Crown, so that people like you can maintain the facade of sanctimonious Southern morality.

I've found much of what Crown sells in our local library. The truth is not sanctimonius. What was sanctimonious was yankee flesh peddlers siling the oceans blue for thier filthy lucre, making billions in profits, and then demanding and end to the practice once the monies changed hands. First the money, then the morals.

No doubt nolu chan, collector of similar literature, can provide you with a copy. Read it to understand the foundation of your beliefs.

Sorry, I have a brain, and can use it without anyone else telling me what I need to know or belive. Even then, nolu chan and I, or others, do not tell each other what to think. Nor is it provided by any single book. It comes from decades of reseach and study.

435 posted on 08/31/2004 12:10:34 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: GOPcapitalist
No kidding! I witnessed the same exact thing in the last few moments of #3's presence here.

Almost 4400 posts - months of posting and research, and he has the unmitigated gall to flame out when I left to go home. Have some people no shame? ;o)

436 posted on 08/31/2004 12:14:52 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: ApesForEvolution
All from one blood brother...

Exactly.

437 posted on 08/31/2004 12:15:27 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: capitan_refugio
"His attitude on the bench was consistently and solicitously proslavery. By 1857 he had become as fanatical in his determination to protect the institution [of slavery] as Garrison was in his determination to destroy it."

ROTF! I see the problem already. Fehrenbacher.

The whole problem with Fehrenbacher is that per the Constitution the federal government had no authority to end slavery. As I've posted several times now, the first Congress, second Congress etc all limited citizenship to WHITES only. Numerous state and federal court decisions held that slaves were property and/or could not be citizens. If Chief Justice Taney and 6 others on that court had ruled otherwise, they would have been guilty of judicial activism.

438 posted on 08/31/2004 12:24:09 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: capitan_refugio
I equate Hitlerism and Nazism with Satanism. If that's the stuff you enjoy, have at it.

I despise all three, please quit projecting. I take it you never watch the History Channel, and never saw "Raiders of the Lost Lance Ark"?

439 posted on 08/31/2004 12:26:37 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: GOPcapitalist
"Take your source on Bollman for example. Far from a recognized authority, he is a revisionist operating on the fringe of his profession by attempting to take down a 200 year old precedent with near universal acceptance in the legal scholarly field."

"Your source on Taney is even more bizarre - he's a left wing reparationist crackpot who is employed by the SPLC and whose "history" comes across as the ramblings of an agenda-driven hack (which he is) when compared to virtually any other source on Taney, be it positive (like Curtis) or negative (like Fehrenbacher)."

Ad hominem attacks that do not refute the accuracy of the author's views. Can't attack the message? No problem. Attack the messenger! I think, also, you'll see that I quote Finkelman once to give you a taste of a real left-winger - as compared the the gratuitous left-wing smears you paint on my other sources - including Jaffa and Rehnquist! Outside of Bledsoe, J. Davis, Stephens, and Hitler, I have no idea who is on your approved list of pro-southern sources.

Post script - "Reparations" for slavery is a despicable idea. There are no living ex-slaves; there are no living ex-slave holders. Present day society is not responsible for the past evils. There are many citizens of this country who never had a slave-holding ancestor, or whose family may have come to the country well after the demise of slavery. Reparations belong to those who have been wronged and made by those who committed the wrong.

440 posted on 08/31/2004 12:26:48 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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