[rdb3]

...and Abe lincoln's dictator state.

Which was still far better than the dictator state of the South for black people.

You can't have it both ways.

Now, can we return to the 21st century, please?

[Moby Grape]

Well said!!!!

[HaveGunWillTravel]

Lincoln did totally outrageous stuff. He may have freed the blacks, but he tyrannized everyone. Threw congressmen in jail, shut down the press, etc. Blacks may have won, but free men lost. While the declaration of independance says that men derive their rights from their creator, under Lincoln's amended constitution, blacks now derive their rights from the government. They have simply changed masters. This is the present.

As far as Ashcroft is concerned, the reason the Dems aren't crying very loud about shredding the bill of rights is that they have wanted it shredded for a while. It was the dems against the civil rights act and it was the dems against emancipation. I don't think they have a big problem with camps.