DISQUS

Daniel,

Nothing here is in contradiction with the original intent of the constitution. The real tragedy is how Lincoln ran over the constitution during his war on the South. As a result, we now we have a NATIONAL government which demands adoration, extracts tribute, starts wars, sends our children into harm's way to protect empire. You folks want to use this same power to run over folks at home and force them to embrace you ungodly life style. Some worship Christ as King, you worship the state!

Consider this portion of an exchange between Robert E. Lee and Lord Acton, November 4, 1866, Lord Acton writes to Lee:

"I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."

December 15, 1866, Lee responds:

"While I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only are essential to adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."

All of this can be read in "The Real Lincoln," Thomas DiLorenzo.

You folks just make it up as you go, no consideration of history, all about how you feel! Or how "non-inclusive" policy/statements might make someone feel.

Brian.
Magnolia, TX
"the heart of FLY-OVER country"

Daniel,

Nothing here is in contradiction with the original intent of the constitution. The real tragedy is how Lincoln ran over the constitution during his war on the South. As a result, we now we have a NATIONAL government which demands adoration, extracts tribute, starts wars, sends our children into harm's way to protect empire. You folks want to use this same power to run over folks at home and force them to embrace you ungodly life style. Some worship Christ as King, you worship the state!

Consider this portion of an exchange between Robert E. Lee and Lord Acton, November 4, 1866, Lord Acton writes to Lee:

"I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."

December 15, 1866, Lee responds:

"While I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only are essential to adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."

All of this can be read in "The Real Lincoln," Thomas DiLorenzo.

You folks just make it up as you go, no consideration of history, all about how you feel! Or how "non-inclusive" policy/statements might make someone feel.

Brian.
Magnolia, TX
"the heart of FLY-OVER country"