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Commentary: Truth blown away in sugarcoated 'Gone With the Wind'
sacbee ^ | 11-13-04

Posted on 11/13/2004 11:12:00 AM PST by LouAvul

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To: Gianni

There was nothing in my statement which said Hamilton was immune from criticism even by his enemies merely acknowledgement that it is deceptive and dishonest to use the portrait painted by those who hated him pretending that it was from an objective source. It has no more value than me quoting Rufus King extolling him without noting their close alliance.

Quoting a Yates is not going to convince anyone who actually knows anything about him or that period.

Nor is there any "evidence" of those economic failures merely opinion based upon ideology.


1,721 posted on 11/29/2004 1:45:42 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Rhett was also from a good family and he certainly had money. Scarlet's love for Ashley was a fantasy and she lived in a dream world much of the time.


1,722 posted on 11/29/2004 1:48:25 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: nolu chan

Since when does the Supreme Court have to "okay" every action of another branch of government?


1,723 posted on 11/29/2004 2:12:19 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: justshutupandtakeit
[JSaTI] It is also important to note that this power and prosperity has not been bent towards tyranny and world conquest but the improving of life here and abroard.

...

[JSaTI] Um, lets see how many times we can show that a backward culture survives its encounter with a rising, powerful forward moving one. Seems like the number is ZERO.

Feel the POWER!

1,724 posted on 11/29/2004 2:33:45 PM PST by Gianni
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To: Gianni

If you don't like the facts I don't know what you can do about it. Life is filled with struggle, death, destruction and progress generally comes from them.

Like a kitten on a freeway, primitive cultures cannot survive encounters with stronger ones. Like it or not.


1,725 posted on 11/29/2004 2:40:07 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
It is a lie to claim that the US flag was intended to be used to protect slavery.

Where was that claim?

The US flag was used to protect slave ships from boarding and inspection. Truth.

Justshutupandwhinesomemore dishonestly creates a new fundamental to argue against which is easily defeated and proceeds from there. Don't work for me.

1,726 posted on 11/29/2004 2:42:03 PM PST by Gianni
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To: justshutupandtakeit; GOPcapitalist
Nor is there any "evidence" of those economic failures merely opinion based upon ideology

There is "not any evidence" that interventionalism is a failed economic strategy?

1,727 posted on 11/29/2004 2:44:16 PM PST by Gianni
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Like a kitten on a freeway, primitive cultures cannot survive encounters with stronger ones. Like it or not.

Not analagous to what you said. You implied that drivers have an obligation to run down the kitten - that control was beyond the scope of mortals even.

"God made me run down the Kitten" - justshutupandtakeit

"God willed that I killed a million Americans" - AL

1,728 posted on 11/29/2004 2:46:07 PM PST by Gianni
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To: Gianni

That was the implication of the poster, another DS, posting the claim the slave ships were "protected" by the US flag attempting to deceive one into believing it was the policy of the US government to protect slavers' ships.

Desperate to make others believe the fantasy that the Northern anti-slavers were just as bad as the southern slavers they regularly resort to such nonsense.


1,729 posted on 11/29/2004 2:50:25 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Gianni

No because of the inability to run economic experiments. Thus conclusions drawn after the fact are not very dependable.

If one could start from the beginning and implement a different policy one may be able to drawn sound conclusions but as the case maybe they are only opinion buttressed by theory.


1,730 posted on 11/29/2004 2:53:13 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Gianni

Nonsense. You are allowing your delusions to get the best of you again.


1,731 posted on 11/29/2004 2:54:07 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: capitan_refugio
You make an allegation. What were the penalties?

Did you not read the Judiciary Act again, capitan? The punishment for impeding the process of the federal judiciary is "at the discretion of said courts."

But none of the judges went so far as to hold the President in contempt of court. If they did, please show the citation.

Incorrect. They (1) ruled him to have illegally arrested the process of the court (which would qualify as a contempt of the court's authority) and (2) ruled him to have directly assumed the responsibility of Porter, who they had ruled in contempt of court. I've already given you the citation...twice...and you've chosen to ignore it...twice.

List for me the felonies (high crimes) Lincoln committed.

First off, the terms "felony" and "high crime," though related, are NOT interchangably synonymous. The term "high crimes and misdemeanors" is to be read as a phrase having come from a similar phrase in English common law, not in its subdivided parts. As for the high crimes and misdemeanors he committed, they are found in his willful arrest and obstruction of the legal processes of the federal judiciary.

1,732 posted on 11/29/2004 5:17:16 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: Gianni
There's plenty of evidence. Fakeit simply does not desire to acknowledge it because he knows he's got nothing to counter it with.

Exhaustive studies have been conducted on the three primary beneficiaries of protection in the early 19th century: bar iron, cotton textiles, and woolens. In all three cases it has been concluded that protectionism flat out failed to achieve what was claimed as its goal, viz. the stimulation of American industrial development in those sectors. Textiles and woolens both received no discernable stimulation and iron actually saw its production made comparably less efficient as protection delayed the implementation of the previous half century of technological advances in the smelting process.

1,733 posted on 11/29/2004 5:21:28 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: Gianni
"God willed that I killed a million Americans" - AL

I never thought it could be done, but you have successfully and accurately summarized Lincoln's second inaugural address in a mere 8 words. Congratulations are in order.

1,734 posted on 11/29/2004 5:23:36 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: justshutupandtakeit; Gianni
No because of the inability to run economic experiments. Thus conclusions drawn after the fact are not very dependable.

...a classic non-sequitur. Nor are economic experiments entirely impossible as you claim, especially on the micro level (doubt me? A guy just won the nobel prize for devising means of doing so a couple years ago). Returning to the point though, it simply does not follow from the _limitations_ of economic experimentation that ex post facto conclusions (read: experience itself) are unreliable. In fact, the innovative driving agent of economic growth is of such a nature that it can ONLY be known ex post, never ex ante - go read Schumpeter.

If one could start from the beginning and implement a different policy one may be able to drawn sound conclusions but as the case maybe they are only opinion buttressed by theory.

Tf one were to take the inanity you posted above to its logical extreme it could be said that we do NOT know communism killed the Soviet Union since there is no alternative can be tested from the beginning in 1917 for comparison. Using your reasoning we're just as right (or wrong depending on how you look at it) to dismiss the Soviet failure as a product of excess fluoride in their water, or perhaps something culturally with Russians, as something inherently wrong with communism. But that, of course, would be absurd and so is your bizarre insistence that we cannot intellectually evaluate the policy of protectionism in the early 19th century (unless, of course, that evaluation supports your desired outcome of vindicating the tariffs - and no credible study does).

If you see something fundamentally wrong about the throng of scholars who have concluded protectionism was a dismal failure, why not write it up and get yourself published? Simply dismissing results that you disagree with out of hand over a pretended and logically absurd quibble with the fact that they attempt to evaluate the policy itself won't cut it though.

1,735 posted on 11/29/2004 5:37:12 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: capitan_refugio
[cr 1692] A lie is an intentional act. I post no lies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1279209/posts?page=1086#1086

(5) It was indeed a footnote in the web article quoted from the Hamdi documentation.

1,086 posted on 11/24/2004 11:20:41 AM CST by capitan_refugio

WAS IT FROM A WEB ARTICLE??? NO!!!

WAS IT A FOOTNOTE??? NO!!!

WERE YOU WELL AWARE IT WAS NOT A FOOTNOTE??? YES!!!

WAS YOUR REPETITION OF THE KNOWN FALSEHOOD A LIE??? YES!!!

1,736 posted on 11/29/2004 6:01:52 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: capitan_refugio
[cr 1692] A lie is an intentional act. I post no lies.

The way one knows capitan is lying is when capitan is posting.


capitan_kerryfugio Lying Again

[capitan kerry_fugio #1086] I retracted my comments concerning Lemmon the next day. I was clearly mistaken about that case and the only three sentences in which I ever mentioned it. (You are beating a dead horse.)

[capitan_refugio #526 09/01/2004] "I remembered Lemmon was a sojourn and transit case regarding New York. And I recall there was SC case that foreshadowed . When I have time, I'll figure out which one that was."

No, capitan_kerryfugio, you did not post a retraction, you substituted a different lie. That is what dishonest liars do. As a substitute for the non-existent SCOTUS case of Lemmon v. The People, you substituted a different non-specific yet still non-existent SCOTUS case. As was to be expected, you have yet to "figure out which one that was." I previously provided you with a link to a complete list of all SCOTUS case citations from 1790 to 1862 and challenged you to cite the case. As was to be expected, you simply moved to another thread.

Citations of ALL SCOTUS cases 1790-1862

There is the link again. Cite the case.

And what you purported to "remember" was: "Lemmon v the People was a case which foreshadowed Dred Scott. The Taney Court overturned a New York State statute which immediately freed slaves brought into the state. The decision guaranteed 'sojourn and transit' rights to slave-owners through free states. It did not address, to my knowledge, the issue of residence."


capitan_kerryfugio Lying Again

[capitan kerry_fugio #1086] (4) Amy Warwick and Brilliante were all part of the Prize Cases. The citation was wrong, but the point being made was concerning whether Lincoln instituted a "blockade" under international law. You are still wrong on that point. A country cannot blockade its own ports.

You know the court said otherwise, and you are still lying.

In cr #649 you purported to quote from the Opinion of the Supreme Court in The Prize Cases. You continued, in your words, "The Supreme Court finds: (1) The rebellion is an insurrection and not a war betwenn countries, (2) The "so-called blockade" was not a blockade under international law, and (3) Closing the ports was a valid exercise of executive authority."

In this case you quoted from the recap of the argument of one of the lawyers, Mr. Carlisle, and presented it as the opinion of the court. All of your purported "findings" of the court were the reverse of the actual findings of the court.

Thank you for chiming in> I refer you to the text of Amy Warwick (1862): "But chiefly, the terms of the President's proclamation instituting [67 U.S. 635, 641]...."

The Supreme Court finds:

(1) The rebellion is an insurrection and not a war betwenn countries,
(2) The "so-called blockade" was not a blockade under international law, and
(3) Closing the ports was a valid exercise of executive authority.

-- capitan_refugio, #649, 09/03/2004

[nc] cr quotes are from pp. 640-642 of the Supreme Court Reporter.

The entirety of the quoted matter was from the Court Reporter's recitation of the Argument of Mr. Carlisle which runs from page 639 to 650. The Opinion of the Court by Mr. Justice Grier starts at page 665.

All of the findings attributed to the Court are arguments of Mr. Carlisle. None was adopted by the Court.

On FINDLAW, bracketed comments in text of case [67 U.S. 635, 650] indicate this report starts at Volume 67, page 635 and you are at the beginning of page 650.

| 635 | 639 | 640 | 641 | 650 | 665 | 682 | 699 |

[court reporter at p. 639] "One argument on each side is all that can be given. Those of Mr. Dana and Mr. Carlisle have been selected...."
[court reporter at p. 639] Begins presentation of argument by Mr. Carlisle.
[court reporter at p. 650] Ends presentation of argument by Mr. Carlisle.
[court reporter at p. 650] Begins presentation of argument by Mr. Dana.
[Opinion of the Court - Mr. Grier] pp. 665 - 682.
[Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Nelson] pp. 682 - 699.


OPINION OF THE COURT
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/67/635.html

"THE PRIZE CASES"

U.S. Supreme Court THE AMY WARWICK, 67 U.S. 635 (1862)
67 U.S. 635 (Black)

THE BRIG AMY WARWICK.
THE SCHOONER CRENSHAW.
THE BARQUE HIAWATHA.
THE SCHOONER BRILLIANTE.

December Term, 1862

* * *

Mr. Justice GRIER.

There are certain propositions of law which must necessarily affect the ultimate decision of these cases, and many others, which it will be proper to discuss and decide before we notice the special facts peculiar to each.

They are, 1st. Had the President a right to institute a blockade of ports in possession of persons in armed rebellion against the Government, on the principles of international law, as known and acknowledged among civilized States?

* * *

On this first question therefore we are of the opinion that the President had a right, jure belli, to institute a blockade of ports in possession of the States in rebellion, which neutrals are bound to regard.

* * *

II. The case of the Hiawatha.

The Court below in decreeing against the claimants proceeded upon the ground that the cargo was shipped after notice of the blockade.

The fact is clearly established, and if there were no qualifying circumstances, would well warrant the decree. But after a careful examination of the correspondence of the State and Navy Departments, found in the record, we are not satisfied that the British Minister erred in the construction he put upon it, which was that a license was given to all vessels in the blockaded ports to depart with their cargoes within fifteen days after the blockade was extablished, whether the cargoes were taken on board before or after the notice of the blockade. All reasonable doubts should be resolved in favor of the claimants. Any other course would be inconsistent with the right administration of the law and the character of a just Government. But the record discloses another ground upon which the decree must be sustained. On the 19th of April the President issued a proclamation announcing his intention to blockade the ports of the several States therein named.

On the 27th of April he issued a further proclamation announcing his intention to blockade the ports of Virginia and North Carolina in addition to those of the States named in the previous one. On the 30th of April Commodore Pendergrast issued his proclamation announcing the blockade as established.

Here was a distinct warning that the vessel must leave within the time limited, after the commencement of the blockade.


capitan_kerryfugio Lying Again

[capitan kerry_fugio #1086] (5) It was indeed a footnote in the web article quoted from the Hamdi documentation.

You know what you are saying is false. You are deliberately lying.

No capitan. It is not from a web article, it is from a Petition by a public defender.

No capitan. It is not a footnote from anything. It spans the full width of the page, and ends page 24 and starts page 25. No footnote resembles that.

The images shown in my #1402 prove beyond a doubt that the Petition for a Writ of Cert cannot be mistaken for either the decision or the dissent. It looks nothing like a decision of the Supreme Court. It bears no resemblance to a court decision. It looks nothing like any court decision on FINDLAW. Court decisions on FINDLAW are single-spaced in HTML. This Petition was double-spaced in PDF.

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERT BY PUBLIC DEFENDER [ PDF LINK ]

HAMDI DECISION BY U.S. SUPREME COURT [ Findlaw LINK


capitan_kerryfugio Lying Again

capitan_refugio #384 8/31/2004 to nc purported three quotes to be about the SCOTUS case of Scott v. Sandford which were actually about the Missouri case of Scott v. Emerson.

[capitan kerry_fugio #1086] (2) All part of the Dred Scott record.

One is a Federal case against Sandford.

The other is a Missouri case against Emerson.

It is two different cases. One was held under Missouri state law. The other was under Federal law.

They are not interchangeable. And you know it.


capitan_kerryfugio Lying Again

capitan_refugio #237 8/29/2004 to GOPcap [ LINK to #237> ] argued that

Bollman was not about habeas corpus, it was about conspiracy to commit treason. Marshall's paasing commnet with regard to habeas are obiter dicta, and as you can see from the definition provided, are "not precedential."

Habeas Corpus, by Eric M. Freedman, NYU Press, 2001, devotes three entire chapters to Bollman.

You said Bollman was not about habeas corpus. You can try to add the word suspension in there now and change the subject, but, as with your other lies, it merely shows that your are trying to lie your way out of your previous lies.

Been there, done that.

[cr #1865] To return to the Bollman matter for a moment. Bollman was about what constituted "treason." Leonard Levy writes in The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution that....

Leonard Levy, Ph.D., UCHS class of 1940, is a retired professor of history who earned undergraduateand graduate degrees from Columbia University. He is a former Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional History and a former Dean at Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts.

History Professor Levy has also been cited as "Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History, Claremont Graduate School."

Eric M. Freedman is a professor of law.

Eric M. Freedman, Habeas Corpus, Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty

From Amazon: "In this timely volume, Eric M. Freedman reexamines four of the Supreme Court's most important habeas corpus rulings: one by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1807 concerning Aaron Burr's conspiracy...."

As the Table of Contents shows, Chapters 3, 4, and 5 are devoted exclusively to Bollman,



1,737 posted on 11/29/2004 6:13:26 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: capitan_refugio
[capitan_kerryfugio] I won't demean your manhood any longer. You have shown that you are genitally challenged.

I am equipped for the challenge. On the other hand, you are known as needledick the bug------.


1,738 posted on 11/29/2004 6:18:33 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: capitan_refugio
[cr] You must understand, that if we agreed upon the terms, and used a neutral third part, such as a Nevada-based escrow, there would be no room for backing out. If I was an "untrustworthy liar," as you say, my part of the deal would be held by the escrow and then you could laugh all the way to the bank!

We do not need a Nevada-based escrow, nor do we need one of your friends, or yourself, to act as sole judge of your mendacity and low-life slithering. We have a whole site of Freepers who can see your LIES, see that your LIES are DOCUMENTED over and over, and can see that you cannot explain your way out.

The RECORD speaks for itself. CAPITAN REFUGIO IS A PROVEN LIAR..

1,739 posted on 11/29/2004 6:25:15 PM PST by nolu chan
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To: capitan_refugio
[nc] "So, capitan_refugio thinks serving in the military is sucking on the government teat. No wonder you are so proud of avoiding the draft."

[capitan_refugio] You, no doubt, will someday draw a pension or retirement, if you do not already. The taxpayer will still support you. I can hear the suckling noises now.

Capitan_refugio, proud of having avoided military service, commenting on military retirement pay earned with 20 years active duty.

1,740 posted on 11/29/2004 6:28:33 PM PST by nolu chan
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