The Neo-Con Assault on the Constitution

Lewrockwell.com ^ | April 25, 2002 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

[AUgrad]

Bump

[Free the USA]

FYI

[Hail Caesar]

may as well throw Bill Bennett in with that "neo-Con" bunch, too.

[weikel]

Im against the WOD but Im also against Neoconfederate Lincoln bashing nonsense.

[WyldKard]

A bunch of people will just look at the URL and disregard this article out of hand, unfortunately. Lew is sometimes off his rocker though, but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases as such. I only glanced through the article though, admittedly.

[billbears]

Why? He was the one that began centralizing the government and gave it the power that it uses today against the citizens of the respective states

Ping guys, good article from Mr. DiLorenzo

[tacticalogic]

Lincoln established the supremacy of federal authority over the rights of the state governments. FDR established the supremacy of federal authority over the rights of the individual.

[AUgrad]

Lincoln established the supremacy of federal authority over the rights of the state governments. FDR established the supremacy of federal authority over the rights of the individual.

Great point!!

[Hugin]

Dittos. What the Lincoln haters really are saying is that they wish the USA was not one country. They will try to cover this by suggesting that the south would hve abolished slavery and rejoined the USA on their own, but in reality the opposite is more likely; other states would have split off over time when they disagreed with Federal policy. And without a USA we would probably be living under Nazism or Communism today.

[billbears]

Ping!! A DiLorenzo article

[weikel]

Look all the big government crap started in the 1910's with the "progressives"(communists). Ive been over this a million times. Lincoln had been dead almost 50 years before big Government started.

[Reagan Man]

Lew Rockwell is off his rocker, 99.9% of the time. I may not like Alan Keyes, but truth be told, he was never a liberal, hence he isn't a neo-con. Of course, when it comes to the truth, Rockwell is a seriously lost soul.

[freeeee]

What the Lincoln haters really are saying is that they wish the USA was not one country...And without a USA we would probably be living under Nazism or Communism today.

Yeah, it's a real good thing the fed ignores the 10th Amendment. You see, if the states were allowed to decide things like the drinking age and the speed limit, the communist hordes would overrun us in no time at all!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Lotsa bilge and falsehoods in that essay. Same old misunderstandings of the 10th amendment and incorrect history wrt State's Rights. Same falsehoods wrt Lincoln. Crap in short and more crap.

[stainlessbanner]

BTTT

[justshutupandtakeit]

No it is a falsehood. The U.S. Constitution established the relation between the federal government and the individual citizen.

[Hugin]

Yeah, it's a real good thing the fed ignores the 10th Amendment. You see, if the states were allowed to decide things like the drinking age and the speed limit, the communist hordes would overrun us in no time at all!

I see, rather than respond to my points, you change the subject. A sure sign that you have no response.

[billbears]

I don't care what you've been over. Facts are facts. What about the Union-Pacific railroad? Who funded that? The Mexicans? No it was the United StateS federal government!! It was an 'internal improvement' plan, much like the ones from Illinois and other northern states that failed so miserably in the 1830s and 1840s. Before the War, it had never been done, because such scams were illegal and even banned in every state constitution. It was bankrupt within a year after it was finished building. And suprisingly enough, less than 20 years later the Northern Transcontinental was built without one federal government red cent!! Even went on to make a little money. How about that? Of course this is just documented history, along with a military invasion by the federal government of the South that lasted ten years and we are still feeling the repercussions of that 'occupation'. This doesn't even begin to cover the corruption of the elected state officials down here during that time which were carpetbaggers or Southern scalawags, all with complete approval by none other than the United StateS federal government. lincoln might have been dead, but it wasn't fifty years before his plans came to fruition, it was more like 5

[weikel]

The railroad subsidies started before the Civil War you can't blame that one on Lincoln more like Hamilton and Henry Clay.