War Criminal

[18TH TEXAS VOL INFANTRY]

I got this in an email today and thought I would get the thoughts of those I respect.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN: AMERICA'S GREATEST WAR CRIMINAL, By Ron Holland

from Southern Caucus, http://www.southerncaucus.org

Abraham Lincoln should without a doubt be named America's greatest
war criminal. His war of invasion not only killed over 600,000
innocent Americans but it was obvious from his earlier speeches that
he had previously advocated the prevalent constitutional right of
democratic, state by state secession. Lincoln's War also effectively
overthrew the existing decentralized, limited federal government that
had existed and governed well in the US since established by
America's founding fathers. Lincoln bastardized a respected federal
government with limited powers into a dictatorial, uncontrollable
Washington federal empire.

Because of Lincoln, the former American constitutional republic fell
from a dream of liberty and limited government into the nightmare big
government we have today without the earlier checks and balances of
state sovereignty. After Lincoln, In foreign policy, the US forgot
George Washington's warning about neutrality and we became an
aggressive military abroad until today we have troops defending the
Washington Empire in over 144 nations around the world.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in
extending our commercial relations to have with them as little
political connections as possible. It is our true policy to steer
clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world. —
George Washington

Lincoln shares his war criminal actions with other well know tyrants
that waged war on their own people. History shows us that politicians
make war against their own citizens even more than against foreign
nations. The reasons are often to establish and preserve their power
base, as was the case in the Russian Revolution and the Mao
Revolution. For others, like Hitler, it was misguided super
patriotism and racism that brought death to tens of millions. Sadly,
in the case of Abraham Lincoln's war against the Confederacy and
Southern civilians, it was all for money, company profits and
government tariff revenues. A simple case of political pay back in
return for the Northeastern manufacturing interests that supported
the Republican Party and his campaign for the presidency.

Early in his career, Abraham Lincoln was an honorable statesman who
let election year politics and the special interests supporting his
presidential campaign corrupt a once great man. He knew what he was
doing was wrong and unconstitutional but succumbed, as in the case of
many modern day politicians, to the allure of money, power and ego.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the
right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a
new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most
sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the
world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people
of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of
such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so
much of the territory as they inhabit. --Abraham Lincoln January 12,
1848

This quote above shows Lincoln as a statesman 12 years before he
plunged the United States into its most disastrous war. Suffering a
death toll so high in death rates as a percentage of total
population, his act of carnage ranks with the political genocides of
Stalin, Lenin and Mao during their communist revolutions. A death
toll so great that it dwarfs the American deaths in all of our many
declared and undeclared wars before and since this American holocaust
of death and destruction.

From the following quote you can see that later Lincoln radically
adjusted his rhetoric to meet the needs and demands of his business
establishment supporters and financial supporters.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the
Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of
anarchy. --Abraham Lincoln

Why the complete change in rhetoric and actions? Simple, to preserve
high tariffs and corporate profits for the Northeastern business
establishment. Lincoln who earlier in his career had obviously
favored the right of peaceful secession, provoked a war that killed
600,000 Americans, as a pay back to the eastern manufacturing
establishment that bankrolled his presidential campaign. These
special interests would have suffered serious financial loss if a low
tariff Confederate States of America were allowed to peacefully,
democratically and constitutionally secede from the United States in
lawful state constitutional conventions of secession which were
identical to the ratification conventions when they had joined the
Union. Thus the real reasons for the death and destruction of
Lincoln's War were covered up and hidden by historians who continue,
even today, to deny the truth and hide the ultimate costs of
Lincoln's American holocaust.

While Lincoln's death toll is small in comparison to total deaths by
Mao, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, there are many similarities between
these men. In the Russian Civil War, from 1917 - 1922 around 9
million died under Lenin and we must add another 20 million under
Stalin from 1929 to 1939. The Mao communist regime in China killed 44
to 70 million Chinese from 1949 – 1975.

Still the US constitutional republic, as established by our founding
fathers, was in effect destroyed by Lincoln's unconstitutional war
just as surely as Mao and Lenin over threw the existing Chinese and
Russian governments.

The multitude of Lincoln apologists would say that this is just
another Confederate argument certainly not accepted by most
historians. I might counter that the opinions and books of these "so
called" establishment historians who live off my tax dollars through
government funding at liberal controlled universities and think tanks
are prejudiced towards Lincoln and Washington DC. They are no
different from the official government historians in China, Nazi
Germany and the Soviet Union. Their job is to lie to the American
people and cover up a true and honest account of our history in order
to support the government and political system in power.

History shows us that a fair and honest discussion of Lincoln's
wartime actions will not be possible as long as the Washington
political establishment remains in power. Since Lincoln, the
Washington Empire has reigned supreme and omnipotent and for this
reason, establishment historians have never honestly debated the
Lincoln war crimes.

Consider this. Was a fair and honest account of Lenin or Stalin
written and published during the Soviet Communist regime? Of course
not. Could a less than worshipful history of Hitler's Third Reich
have been published until after 1945? No! Even today, with only
nominal communist control of China, an honest appraisal of Mao's
revolution and crimes against the Chinese people still is not
possible. It is no different today in the United States than it is in
Red China or was in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Just as Lenin's
statue could not be toppled in Red Square until after the fall of the
Soviet Communist government, or the truth about Hitler couldn't be
told until after defeat of Nazi Germany, it is the same here in the
United States.

It is my hope that someday, in the not too distant future, a true
account of the war crimes of Lincoln will be discussed, debated and
even acknowledged. The Lincoln Memorial should be remodeled to show
the horrors of "Lincoln the War Criminal" with the opportunity for
all to visit Washington and learn how war crimes, genocide and
holocaust are not just crimes that foreign politicians commit.
Government and political tyranny can and has happened here just like
in Germany, China and the Soviet Union and that through education and
honest history, it will never happen here again.

In the future, may we have the opportunity to learn about the Nazi
holocaust at the United States National Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington and then have the chance to visit the Lincoln War Crimes
and American Holocaust Museum a few blocks away. One will state for
all the world that NEVER AGAIN will a tyrant or government be allowed
to target, exterminate and destroy an ethnic, racial or religious
minority. The other will pledge NEVER AGAIN in America will we allow
a president or government to make unconstitutional war against
Sovereign states or their citizens and then cover up the truth up for
over 145 years.

We should start today with an honest appraisal of what Lincoln really
did to Dixie, how our black and white innocent noncombatants suffered
under his total war policy against civilians. Finally we should
address the cost in lives, lost liberty and federal taxes the
citizens of the US have had to endure because our limited
constitutional republic was destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln was a great man, a smart politician and he could have
been an excellent president, had he considered the short-term costs
of his high tariff and the long time price every American had to pay
for his war of invasion. It is time to stop worshipping Lincoln and
educate the public about the war crimes he committed against the
citizens of the Southern States so this WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!

Ron Holland is a financial and political writer and investment
consultant living in Asheville, NC. To review Ron's Personal Website,
his Freedom Quotes Directory or his Fortress Dixie Website just click
on the link. Ron is a member of the SCV, SPNC and the League of the
South. Although not Jewish, he is a past Circle of Remembrance
Contributor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ron can
be reached at ronholland@compuserve.com is the editor of Dixie Daily
News and is now creating a new Lincoln website - Abraham Lincoln: An
American War Criminal (Please forward any suggested articles &
website links to Ron)

Thank you

James
18th Texas

[johan_steele]

Please tell me this guy isn't seriously comparing the South after the Civil War to the Holocaust. Please tell me I've misread that bit. This is some of the worst researched material I've ever read... I'm tempted to send him a link to the Tariff thread. Though I doubt he would read it.

Comparing Lincoln to Hitler, Stalin & Mao... pretty pathetic scholorship.

[unionblue]

Tex,

Read this man before.

Don't anymore.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[marcferguson]

Originally Posted by 18TH TEXAS VOL INFANTRY

Abraham Lincoln was a great man, a smart politician and he could have
been an excellent president, had he considered the short-term costs
of his high tariff and the long time price every American had to pay
for his war of invasion. It is time to stop worshipping Lincoln and
educate the public about the war crimes he committed against the
citizens of the Southern States so this WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!

This is just nonsense and garbage.

best,
marc

[samgrant]

Do folks actually swallow this stuff?

[18TH TEXAS VOL INFANTRY]

I wanted you to see what I got in my email, I by no means condone his statements. In fact these type of people actually do damage to those that want to honor those from the South and the North. There are always people who want to take the works of others like this and use it to discribe a group as a whole.

I wanted to see also if you had seen or heard of this guy.

James
18th Texas

[tarheel]

I think, being only a few miles away from Asheville, I'll print this off and file it away just in case it's ever mentioned that he might be considered as a speaker for one of our SCV meetings. I believe this would be enough to discourage that.

Sometimes it's hard being a tarheel.

[unionblue]

tex,

I respect what you have done. You brought up an article for others to examine and to get their opinions on. That takes courage.

While there may be some things that we may not agree on about the late war, it is a comfort to know that you are willing to put yourself out there and see how others think.

Thanks for being so open.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[ole]

Thanks for the post, Tex.

Raving crazies like that, on either side, just get in the way of study and reasonably differing opinions.

Ole

[FSPowers]

I know about this fellow.

A bit of a crackpot who thinks that the CSA should be reformed.

He also has launched diatribes against President Bush and the War on Terror.

Any decent Southerner would never swallow that bilge.