Posted on 07/26/2013 3:42:50 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Green paint was splattered overnight on parts of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S. Park police say.
They say a patrol officer found green plant splashed on the floor near the famous statue of President Lincoln, and some on the base of the statue, at around 1:20 a.m. local time.
The memorial, on the National Mall, will be closed until the U.S. Park Service can clean it up.
An investigation is under way.
CBS Washington affiliate WUSA-TV says its crew members got as close as they could to the statue and didn't see the paint, but saw evidence of...
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using states rights to justify owning slaves...
yeah, tell me again how you are the bright ones in the room?
Google Abraham Lincoln, stepfather of our country.
Reading comprehension escapes you. I have never mentioned slavery or my support thereof.
Thanks for deflecting, that’s real Alinsky of you.
Please try and do better next time.
Actually Non Sequitur, my vision of a new Constitution defaults each state to sovereign status UNLESS the legislature of each state votes to stay in the USA every 2 years.
I always suspected that you were seeing things and people who weren't there.
And once I do which Southron fantasy site should I be looking at?
Look, lets not pretend anymore.
Your whole cause is based on pretend. Why change now?
American thinker. Do what you want though. I couldn’t care less.
No, its the new American.
Oh and if you seach this site you will find a post on the same article.
Something tells me that if the perps were *tea party* folks, they would already been *caught*.
So we’d be better off if the south won, we were two separate countries, and slavery had been maintained? Uhh.....yeah, okay.
OK I found the article and I started reading it. I couldn't get far before the opinions being paraded as fact got too much for me. Let's take them one by one and we can discuss each before proceeding to the next. Let's start with this one: "On April 13, he declared the seceding states in a condition of rebellion and called for 75,000 troops to deal with them — a declaration expressly reserved to Congress by the Constitution: “The Congress shall have the power … To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”"
If Mr. Dwyer had done even the most cursory research before writing his article he would have no doubt come across a piece of legislation called the Militia Act of 1792, which was revised in 1795 and on several occasions after that. The pertinent part is in Section 2:
"And be it further enacted, That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, the same being notified to the President of the United States, by an associate justice or the district judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia of such state to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. And if the militia of a state, where such combinations may happen, shall refuse, or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President, if the legislature of the United States be not in session, to call forth and employ such numbers of the militia of any other state or states most convenient thereto, as may be necessary, and the use of militia, so to be called forth, may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session.
Note the two parts in bold print. It is lawful for the president to decide if the militia needs to be called up. He can determine if rebellion exists, he doesn't need to wait for Congress to do so. And he has the power to call up the militia in his own authority if Congress was not in session, which it was not. So that claim that Lincoln abused his powers and violated the Constitution is flat out wrong. I'll turn it back to you for your response before we proceed to the next one.
We all have dreams. Mine is that we look at Starship Troopers and require citizens to pass a history and moral philosophy test before they can serve in the military, and must serve in the military before they can vote or hold certain offices.
So what do you do with the people who have crossed a border within the last 2 years?
Are they held for ransom? Enslaved? All their property stolen? Shipped out? Just kill them?
How do you grow business when everyone knows that there will be radical change in the legal climate in a year or two? How does the state pay for any improvements that may have been made in the years before ‘the default’?
Normally the southern partisans assert that the changes to the 1795 militia act that permitted the President to determine if an insurrection exists, and to call out the militia, are unconstitutional, because Lincoln did it, so it must be unconstitutional.
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