The Constitution Part II

I am pretty sure the Department of Homeland Insecurity will one day knock on my door, and lead me off to a government re-education facility. Being the troublemaker and subversive dissident that I am.

But I just can't help myself.

Here is a link to a document the Government doesn't want you to read:

http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html

Because if you read it, you might figure out what they are doing is against the law.

Yes, the Constitution is The Law of the Land. It is what every other law is supposed to be based on. Unfortunately for us, the Federal government has seized so much power since the Civil War, no one can stand up to them anymore.

Speaking of the Civil War, there has been a lot of revised history concerning it. Hey, the winners write the history books. But what has been taught as fact is pure fiction designed to put a nice warm and fuzzy light on the subject.

And I bought into the lies for most of my life right there with everyone else. It wasn't until I read a book on Lincoln, quoting his speeches and papers and ideology that I figured it all out.

Lincoln, according to Lincoln, could not care less about slavery. Actually, he wanted all slaves to be removed from the country, not for any great humanitarian reasons, but because he thought they were a detriment to the population. He did not consider them people, simply property. He was a racist.

He actually funded studies done on forming a country in South America to send them all to. It was to be called Lincolnia. Unfortunately for Mr Lincoln, they could not work out a deal with the countries already there to sell him the land and form his vision. We did manage to get Liberia going though in the 1840's, and that was the model Mr Lincoln had in mind

As a lawyer, Young Mr Lincoln actually represented slave owners, who were trying to recover run away slaves. It just was not an issue for him at all. However, in our brave New World, the facts lose out to social and political correctness. And I am sick and tired of both of those concepts.

Here is what really happened, like it or not. No racism, just the cold hard facts. The truth is rarely nice and polite. Although this is the readers digest version, since it would take a series of books to go through everything.

As a Legislator in IL, young Mr Lincoln had a brilliant idea. The State Government should build a railroad. To finance this project, new taxes were levied on the residents, whether they liked the idea or not. Like many State projects, graft and corruption was rampant, the Railroad was not finished, and it bankrupted the State.

In fact, other States thought Mr Lincoln was onto something, and followed suit. And their States were soon bankrupt, and the Railroads were not completed.

The folks running the projects however, made a fortune at the expense of the public. Some things never change.

Young Mr Lincoln later becomes President. Like any bad government idea, the government sponsored Railroad came back. Only this time, Mr Lincoln decided it should be done on the Federal level. This sweet project would put the railroad across the Northern States. From DC, right up to his old home in IL, and beyond. After all, it worked out great on the State level.

Only how to pay for this monster of a project? All the real money at the time was being made in the Southern States with cotton exports to Europe. So naturally, in the name of public interest, President Lincoln jacked up the export tariffs on cotton. He taxed the heck out of the Southern Economy, to pay for a railroad that would not even come close to any of the Southern States.

Under the Constitution, the way it was written and intended, any State could bail out of the Union. In fact, as early as 1850, Massachusetts had been debating getting out for their own reasons.

Anyway, the Southern States did not like the new heavy tax burden, and after a lot of deliberating and congressional discussion, they decided to use their Constitutional right and break away and form their own Union, known as the Confederacy.

The MO ans KS border wars were a completely different issue, and that started back in 1850. That started out about whether KS would be a slave state or not. And the Federal government, sticking it's pointy head into the matter, actually made things worse, and it turned to a bloody violent mess.

MO eventually sort of sided with the South in the war, but only because the Federal Government forced them to. The folks believed in States rights.

Back to the South. Lincoln didn't want the states to bail, he needed the tax revenue for his railroad after all. But, a deal was made, where the Union would pull all its troops out of Southern territory.

Well, almost all of them. They left troops at Fort Sumter. The Confederacy was told they would be removed. However Mr Lincoln decided to stick his finger in their eye. Instead of pulling out, he resupplied them and added troops. Like a bully picking a fight. And a fight he got.

I know in school, everyone points out the Emancipation Proclamation as Mr Lincoln freeing all the slaves.

Not exactly true.

At that point in the war, the Union was getting a resounding butt kicking from the South. The Union was out of money and losing on all fronts. That is when Mr Lincoln got a brilliant idea.

And if you actually read the document, you'll see just how brilliant it was, and how the Union had absolutely no intention of ending slavery in general.

The document states that all slaves in territory not held by the Union are free. Lincoln's goal was to have the Southern Slave's rise up against the plantation owners. His thought was, all the men are busy fighting, and only women and children were at home running the plantations. If there was a mass slave uprising, the men would be forced to leave the battle and return home to protect their families. And that would give the Union Army a strategic advantage.

It was purely a military strategy. Nothing more.

Slavery was in fact already becoming less viable, and left alone, would most likely have been a thing of the past by 1870.

During the war, Mr Lincoln did all kinds of other things you never hear about in school. He imposed Martial Law on all of the North. He shut down every newspaper that voiced support of the South's right to succeed. He imprisoned over 30,000 Northerners without charges for the same reasons.. He displaced and or murdered thousands of folks in MO.

And, slavery in the North was still legal during the war. Even after the famous Proclamation. Because it only effected territory not in Northern control at the time it was issued. It did not, nor was it meant to cover the country as a whole.

Slavery was a bad thing. Every people since the beginning of time have been enslaved by some other group of people. In fact the word Slave, is derived from the word Slavic. The Vikings were big on capturing the Slavic people and selling them to the Arabs. Hence the word Slave. To this day, there are still countries that impose slavery.

The Civil War started for the same basic reason the Revolutionary war was started. Unjust taxes. And the Federal governments unwillingness to follow it's own rules as described in the Constitution.

However, in school we are taught the whole thing was over slavery.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is not warm and fuzzy feeling. The truth is the Federal Government overstepped it's legal limits. First in the unjust taxes, and then in the execution of the war. And in the suspension of the Constitution.

Since Lincoln, the Constitution has been ignored whenever it gets in the way of the Federal Governments wants. We also have Lincoln to thank for the lobbyist system which now corrupts the government at every level.

When Our Dear Leader started comparing himself to Lincoln, I understood. Lincoln was the president who suspended the Constitution and did whatever he wanted.

And no one on television will tell you that. It is not politically or socially correct.