Abe Lincoln was a dictator??? (Need Help combating loony argument)

[erod]

Hi FRiends,

I have two brothers who I love very much, they’re young and libertarian Ron Paul supporters, sigh. We get along and I’m hoping that one day they’ll come back to conservatism, but they have bought into a theory that I don’t think makes much sense:

Abe Lincoln was a dictator.

There are many websites dedicated to this nonsense you can Google "Abe Lincoln dictator" and get some weird stuff, if you want to check it out.

I need your help in busting this myth are there any books I can read on this subject to dispel this stuff? Do you know any of the arguments to combat this nonsense? Ie. Lincoln did not want to free the slaves.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to help me out, -Erod

[FateAmenableToChange]

Abe Lincoln, besides being a fascist, also stalked the living dead in his spare time:

http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Lincoln-Vampire-Seth-Grahame-Smith/dp/0446563080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271691028&sr=8-1

[Lee'sGhost]

“I need your help in busting this myth are there any books I can read on this subject to dispel this stuff?”

Nope. All the books support the “myth”.

Sorry.

[ontap]

Not there’s anything wrong with that!

[cripplecreek]

So what should we consider Jefferson Davis? After all attempts to infect the north with small pox aren’t exactly angelic deeds.

[cripplecreek]

And opened fire on a federal fort.

[eclecticEel]

Nonsense. Everyone knows he was a lizard-alien.

Where are you getting your history from, FRiend? In truth he was a vampire hunter.

[Oratam]

gay vampires?

[ontap]

Lincoln and FDR were in essence dictators!!!

[Non-Sequitur]

Don’t bother. You can tell a Ron Paul supporter...but you can’t tell them much.

[Ramius]

LOL... well... Let’s just say that there lots of folks that are still saving their confederate money because they think it’ll be valuable again some day.

[ontap]

Do you have any facts that support that!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

To a certain extent he was. Slavery was despicable but secession was not illegal.

[FightThePower!]

Limcoln was wrong. I don’t see why a State should not be allowed to leave the Union if its people no longer want to be in it. What is the USA, the mafia?

[caver]

You’re not going to get that help here.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Well he did cancel habeus corpus and purposely sought a move to violence by publishing his plan to re-inforce Fort Sumpter in the NYT. Doing this while ignoring the right of States to secede. So maybe your brothers aren’t all that wrong. Remember, he did all this while slaughtering an entire generation all to “perserve the Union”. Kind of perverse, eh? Slavery only became an issue after Gettysburg (deperation act, free slaves in Confederate States hoping for a slave rebellion). Now I know this is not what you were taught, but it is what happened. Lincoln was at best our Bismark and at worst our Nero.

[gop4lyf]

and fought vampires

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9780446571852&ourl=Abraham-Lincoln%2FSeth-Grahame-Smith&cm_mmc=Google%20Product%20Search-_-Q000000630-_-Abraham%20Lincoln-_-9780446571852

[cripplecreek]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22253510/Chemical-and-Biological-Warfare-in-the-US-Civil-War

[Logical me]

He was a tyrant. He valued the Union so much that he shat all over the Constitution. Obama has more respect for the Constitution than Lincoln did.

The difference is Lincoln did what he had to do and the result is he saved the nation. King Obama is doing what he is to American and the effort is to destroy the nation. One hell of a difference.

[axxmann]

Lincoln started us down the road to the giant Federal Government we are fighting today. He’s no hero.

[ClearCase_guy]

I note that Erod seems to have posted and run. No replies. No engagement. I suspect a troll.