Lincoln and Obama: Two Tyrants

Off Grid Blog ^ | February 23, 2014 | Off Grid Blogger

[grumpa]

Few people understand how lawless Abraham Lincoln was in propagating our country’s biggest nightmare—the Civil War. And not enough people sense the parallel of Obama’s emerging lawlessness.

Lincoln achieved his political aims by bullying—rather than effective, innovative solutions and negotiations. Here are some facts:

• Lincoln closed more than 300 newspapers that disagreed with him.

• He arrested members of state legislatures, preventing them from debating the secession issue.

• He ordered military trials for citizens when civilian courts were available. Many of these trials resulted in hangings.

• Operating as a military dictator, Lincoln spent millions not authorized by the Congress.

• He suspended the writ of habeas corpus, a law that prevents people from being imprisoned without due process. This suspension, along with the military tribunals, resulted in the imprisonment of 14,000 war opponents illegally. (For comparison, Mussolini is reported to have jailed around 2,000 people.)

• When Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney ruled Lincoln’s suspension of the writ unconstitutional, amazingly, Lincoln ordered Taney arrested! But the United States Marshal’s office refused to make the arrest without a valid arrest warrant. However, due to the political situation at the time, the writ was never officially restored until Andrew Johnson’s tenure.

• The cruelty of the Northern generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan was authorized by Lincoln. The wanton cruelty toward civilian life and property made Lincoln clearly guilty of war crimes.

• His dishonorable prosecution of the war is responsible for the failure to re-assimilate the South after the war, and left bitterness for a hundred years. The Ku Klux Klan is certainly a result of this bitterness.

• Lincoln signed the order approving the hanging of 39 Sioux Indians, for dubious reasons. This was the only mass hanging in American history.

• Lincoln was a liar, changing his message to suit the audience and his political objectives.

This is all presented in an amazing book by Charles Adams entitled, When in the Course of Human Events. Adams concludes, as any reasonable man would, that Lincoln should have been impeached. The war would thus have not progressed to its devastating conclusion. And slavery, which was clearly on its way out anyway, would have ended without the loss of 630,000 American lives.

So, how is this relevant today? Is it not ironic that a black president is potentially taking us down a path of a constitutional crisis not seen since Lincoln? History never repeats itself exactly. But the parallels should be apparent to anyone willing to see them.

[rockrr]

Yea, why you gotta be such a hater? LOL

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

[Ditto]

No, forcing any person or group of people to remain in a union that they feel is abusing them is tyranny.

Please explain how the Federal government, or any one else was 'abusing' anyone in 1860 when secession began.

What exactly was the abuse you speak of?

[man_in_tx]

So, was that so bad?

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Hard to say how things would have developed, if there had been a different outcome.

However, I do believe that what Lincoln set in motion has contributed greatly to our current sad state of affairs, where states have little leeway and our rights are being eroded at a rapid rate.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-W5fGCAzOk