Abraham Lincoln’s Two-Edged Sword

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson

by Frank Roman

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Over the course of several weeks, perhaps even longer, I’ve been seeing quite a bit of attention being paid to Judge Andrew Napolitano’s book entitled, Dred Scott’s Revenge. In case your government school fell down on the job: Dred Scott was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully (in St. Louis, Missouri) for his freedom in 1857. The Supreme Court upheld that America’s black slaves were ‘non-persons’ who therefore did not qualify for the privilege of freedom. This decision is the centerpiece of Napolitano’s book. Fox News pundit and resident clown Glen Beck said Napolitano’s book “lays out 150 years of our national experience… and places the blame for much of what’s wrong squarely at the feet of those responsible: the federal government and politicians whose plans, policies, and programs trashed the Constitution.” Fellow neocon Geraldo Rivera said about Dred Scott’s Revenge: “In this sharply written narrative, the Judge shows us how race remains the driving force in almost every aspect of American life, from education to law enforcement. Dred Scott, the person, would have appreciated this graphic and honest appraisal.”

Now having related the above: while doing some perfunctory research for this podcast I was amazed at the number of contradictory recorded statements president Lincoln made regarding the very things he is best known for: slavery, the War Between the States and the Constitution.  In fact it almost seems as though Honest Abe either had a split personality or was able to pigeonhole ideas and facts while he ignored reality. On one hand he regarded black slaves as inferior to white Americans and wished them gone, while on the other hand he desired to give them blanket citizenship with all of the same rights accorded their hosts. Moreover, while he claimed to uphold the Constitution as it stood he nevertheless felt it was the government’s duty to do whatever it took, including violence, to keep the South from lawfully seceding. The fact that president Lincoln is held up as a paragon of virtue and tolerance by the majority of people and institutions suggests to me a political agenda rather than a reflection of his alleged morality. We’ll let the historians continue to hash out this paradox, but for our purposes we’ll go with the premise in Judge Napolitano’s book: that Abraham Lincoln was actually a despot who singlehandedly gave birth to the unconstitutional government we have today.

Of course, the premise for the accolades of this book (and others too numerous to list) is the idea that Abraham Lincoln was exposed; exposed for tyrannically using the issue of slavery to decapitate the Constitution in order to crush the South which [under the Constitution] had every right to secede from the Union. Lincoln had to pretend to be against slavery in order to garner support from the north. The “real” Lincoln did not care at all about black slavery, did not think racial equality with blacks was a good idea, and said as much. However, at the core of the “real” Lincoln’s ambition—regardless what he thought of slavery and blacks– was a latter-day Republicrat commitment to a bigger central government within a forced union, secession be damned, and the use of race as a pretext to accomplish his goal. In other words Lincoln talked out of both sides of his mouth and carried a two edged sword to enforce his deception. In short, the bloodiest war in American history could have been avoided. Moreover all the other countries of the world that ended slavery in the nineteenth century, such as Britain, Spain, France, Denmark, the Dutch, did so without provoking a war; Also there were no civil wars to free the slaves in states like Massachusetts, New York (where slavery existed for over 200 years), or Illinois. Slavery would have eventually ended on its own even in the deep south and Lincoln knew that, period.

While we can certainly agree with Judge Napolitano that Lincoln was a demigod and a tyrant, we can also say whites did owe American blacks the rights they would accord any human beings. But not at our expense like we are neither doing now; not for the sake of bogus equality which tears down the best to make room for the worst; nor do we owe apologies or reparations for the institution of slavery as they have been offered in Washington DC. In fact any apologies already given should be rescinded right now. Blathering on about its “injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery,” as the House of Representatives masochistically put it, slavery was still the means that most blacks were able to become Americans. Slavery, not constitutional right, has been and always will be their primary ticket to citizenship no matter what anyone says.

And now that the descendants of slaves are firmly ensconced in the American political social and media landscape– a race President Lincoln believed could not be assimilated into white society– we can say with absolute certainty that the marginally black Barack Obama won the election for a number fairly obvious reasons:

1] Aside from the unrealistic notion of immediate free money transfers from the Treasury to their bank accounts, blacks voted for him on racial terms alone — because he’s black. No more, no less. Anything else that happens subsequent to his election is a moot point for these people.

2] Its get-back time for whitey in spite of blacks’ euphoria and phony calls for good will and Napolitano should know this above all else. Practically none of Obama’s supporters can articulate one policy Obama has in mind or has ever accomplished with most white supporters I’m sorry to say being just as vapid.

3] The hyper-leftist-Frankfurt-School-white-baiting American media and education system has been prepping and preening the European American psyche for decades in spite of the fact the idea of racial equality, according to Lincoln, is and was sheer absurdity.

4] Many whites not only accepted our recent Obamacide moment but have actually facilitated it via white guilt. We all know people who have admitted as such. There’s no use in anyone ever denying it either. The evidence is everywhere in what passes for modern American “culture” and we can see it every day.

5] The apathetic or enthusiastic acceptance of cultural racial identifiers such as rap, FUBU, miscegenation, Affirmative Action, the Congressional Black Caucus, Jackson, Sharpton, etc, signals to us that blacks will never move on to deal with their inherent problems because they will always be waiting for whitey to fix the problems for them.

6] The wizard-of-oz-man-behind-the-curtain American federal government and their diversity mongering corporate donors have contributed by default to Obama’s election for decades, often citing Abraham Lincoln’s racial egalitarianism and his desire to keep the Union together as an excuse for the imposition of dismal equality and mandated multiculturalism. But don’t look for people like Judge Napolitano to address this issue. Not only would he never again sell a single book, in his mind, and in the mind of his supporters a Haitian populated America would be just as successful and just as patriotic as a European populated America was, say, in the late fifties / early sixties.

7] In terms of tax dollars to non-white pressure groups, along with hate crime legislation directed mostly at European Americans, and politically correct university indoctrination — also directed at European Americans — the system effectively scares European Americans half to death with threats of job loss, legal nightmares and even violence. Lincoln did that too in a different age only on a war footing.

These seven reasons [among others] are at the core of Barack Obama’s election as president. So I think we can agree Americans overall have made history, as the dumbest body of voters on earth. Just wait. As Obama’s Lincoln-like nationalized pipe dreams accelerate, as they are now, it might somehow “prove” to be whitey’s fault, like everything else is as far as blacks (as a group) are concerned, and things will simply get worse. (ADL) In conclusion then, Lincoln was a cold blooded tyrant and a dictator as far as the War Between the States goes, and we can agree with Judge Napolitano on that point. Now if those kinds of words, tyrant and dictator, are too harsh for the politically correct crowd, we can still agree that Lincoln violated the Constitutional right of the south to secede; and in order for him to do so required unimaginable force and ice thin justifications among his supporters.  Lincoln’s motives for the unqualified destruction of the South and the micro managed death of around 350,000 European Americans are clear — and he should never be forgiven.

That’s one edge of the sword.

Now, while we can also agree that President Lincoln often gave conflicting views of slavery, racial equality and the constitution, he nevertheless for the most part was right about the black population; hinting on some level what desegregation and racial equality would eventually bring white Americans: things like affirmative action, anti white hate laws, the rise of violence among black and white activists, loss of freedom of association, the 14th amendment, the 16th amendment, Third World immigration, all of which and more is the other edge of the sword. In fact it would be safe to say president Lincoln would have agreed with the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle David Yeagley when he said: “Therefore, integration tends to mean elimination for the white race. That’s simply the way of the genetic world. That the white race became the most powerful, dominant, ruling race may be attributed to cultural values more than anything else.[snip]Disguised though it may be in moral and religious terms, political terms, or even genetic terms, the case is fairly obvious: “the hated white race” is such for its beauty and power.”

Now there’s a thought [white] corporate hacks like Napolitano wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole!

Because Fox News neocons, libertarians [like Napolitano] and leftists act as if race doesn’t matter they bend over backwards to make us believe everything is simply a matter of individual rights. Even someone as confused and hypocritical as Abraham Lincoln knew better than that. In fact it now seems blacks in America have taken a cue from Lincoln, the racially prejudiced totalitarian, and are as ethnically attentive as he was; and they are using the same two edged sword he used to cut down our people’s durability and destiny. It is high time for thinking, gutsy European Americans to unsheathe a hardened single edged sword and get to work.

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“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

Abraham Lincoln
Source: September 18, 1858 – Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas
at Charleston, Illinois

2009-08-10