FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO

I’m not a fan of the man, but damn he could put together (and deliver) one helluva speech.

LOL.. +1….good call admin, but Stuck’s post about covers it. …no need to beat a dead tyrant.

Ask politely and you will not receive.Might makes right…And Lincoln knew this

Our long night just may teach traditionalists the central truth about political power. It isn’t something that’s given, it’s something that’s taken. The socialist-progressives have always known that. They didn’t earn power over the courts and schools for instance, they took it. Affirmative action and other judicial activism, confiscatory taxes, bank bailouts, draconian gun laws, free everything for illegals, career welfare and all the rest came about by simply finding a way. Ways like deceit and pandering, election rigging, classroom indoctrination, politicized courts, allying with the treacherous and traitorous, unions and paid mobs to “take it to the streets”—when a way was needed, a way was found.
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Meanwhile we ask fair treatment from them; a favorable ruling here, permission to speak there, maybe even get a permit to assemble if we promise to behave. And we will behave. We always behave. After all, the system must be scrupulously respected while we restore Constitutional limits. We understand the system stands between us and anarchy, it’s sacred, it’s the rule of law. When confronted with insults and threats we turn the other cheek, we reach out to show them we’re good folks, not those crude and unruly bad people they conflate us with. Surely if we drop the unseemly hard talk and compromise in good faith an understanding can be reached.

Pfft. Here’s where compromise and understanding gets us. Soon, some nice people from Diversity Enforcement will want a word with us about obstructing the President’s youth initiatives. Seems we’ve been keeping our kids home on Wilding Night, but don’t worry, the child neglect sanctions will be withdrawn in a historic compromise. And oh yes, an Estimated Carbon Footprint will be part of our taxes, but we’ll reach an understanding for those caught in the punitive Global Warming Denyer bracket, perhaps it’ll be cut in half in a hard-fought compromise. And about the Good Neighbor Home Sanctuary Act, yes, we’ll have to double up to make a bedroom available for transient illegals, but it’s not all bad, we get to use the car-pool lane. See? We all get something from understanding and compromising. It’s the genius of the American system.

No it’s not. It’s time to stop. The time for accommodating is over. The system is rigged, confiscatory and self-serving. It no longer defends or even respects our rightful domains, it invades and diminishes them. Legitimate constitutional governance doesn’t meter out its consent to obedient subjects, it earns consent from a free people. And consent can be withdrawn or it isn’t consent. It’s time to demand full compliance with constitutional governance. We either believe this or we don’t. It’s time to find a way. It’s time to turn to the people, to speak plainly to the people and to trust in the people. No compromises. No “understandings”.

I’m with flash. My “consent” is no longer given. BC-LR to all.

Lincoln was the worst president ever, including the present statist tyrant now usurping the office. Noted and unparalleled writer and sardonic curmudgeon H.L. Mencken said it best:

“The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history…the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
Abolitionist Lysander Spooner ridiculed Lincoln’s absurd statement in the Address that he waged war for the principle of “a government of consent.” What Lincoln meant was “Everybody must consent, or be shot.” John Wilkes Booth was 4 years too late, he could have saved the lives of over 600,000 souls if he had uttered Sic Semper Tyrannis in April 1861 instead of April 1865.
The Lincoln cultists are deluded by love of statism and blinded by historical revisionism and obfuscation. Read “The Real Lincoln” and “Lincoln Unmasked” by Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo to learn what a real tyrant Lincoln was and how he totally trashed the Constitution and destroyed the republic of the Founders. “Lincoln’s Marxists” is also an excellent book by Al Benson and Walter D. Kennedy. Deo Vindice.

Do you TBPers realize that if Lincoln hadn’t used force to keep the South from seceeding our America would be FUBAR. The economy of the North would have sputtered and chocked. Tariiffs, the 90% of the US income then, would have dried up. Trade with the South, who bought everything from pins to booms to locomotives, from the North, would have shrivelled due to the almost non-existent Southern tariff and the growth of Southern-European trade. The Northwest (then every land west of Ohio) probably would have split from the Union for trade and economic reasons.

Lincoln held the Union together. Forget the killed, wounderd, and destruction… we long ago recovered from that. The Grand State, the American Empire, our world’s greatest Economy, the supremacy of the Dollar, our Exceptional lifestyle… Nothing like America ever was. We owe much of that to Lincoln, the president of the Great, Magnificent, and Powerful State. He’s our secular Christ.