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Those Lincolnian Anti-Paul Smears<\/h3>\n

Posted by Anthony Gregory at December 27, 2007 01:14 PM
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On the one hand, it shows how desperate the MSM is that they will
\nattack Paul on one of the popular wars in American mythology \u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\nLincoln’s war on the American people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d rather than on the current war,
\non which most Americans agree with Paul that it’s time to get out. But
\nit is great to see Ron Paul refuse to back down. I remember when I
\nfirst read Harry Browne’s Why Government Doesn’t Work, back in 1996,
\nand it had a little dose of Civil War revisionism, and I found it
\nfascinating and refreshing, and sensible. Since then, I have been
\nastonished by the number of pro-Lincoln libertarians I’ve met. It seems
\nthat in the name of freedom (and, more important, nationalism) it is
\nseen as totally justified to enslave people, murder them, set civilian
\ntowns on fire, rape, pillage, torture, censor, and destroy habeas
\ncorpus. But by bringing the Late Unpleasantness up as a campaign issue,
\nas an attack point against Ron, the MSM has exposed our national
\nmythology’s most crucial element \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Sainthood of Abe \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to the
\nscrutiny of a consistent opponent of war and militarism. Big mistake. <\/p>\n

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George W. Bush and the Republican establishment are, if nothing else, Lincolnian<\/a>,
\nregardless of what anyone might say. The party of corporatism,
\nimperialism, centralism, economic fascism, dictatorship, aggressive
\nwar, militaristic duplicity, conscription, direct taxation, cronyism
\nand police statism has never strayed much from its 1860s roots. And it
\nhas always advanced despotism in the name of liberty and national
\nhonor, from Lincoln to Teddy, from Nixon to Reagan, from the Bushes to
\nBenito.<\/p>\n

Ron Paul is indeed an exception within the GOP. And he has stood up,
\nheroically, to the Lincoln myth. This will get people thinking \u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\nperhaps there is something similarly wrong with aggressive war on the
\nIraqis and on the Southerners, a continuity between the rape of Atlanta
\nand the rape of Fallujah, between Lincoln’s internal improvements and
\nBush’s Haliburtonization of Middle East policy. Maybe Operation Iraqi
\nFreedom and the War Between the States were both murderous and
\ndeceitful. Maybe the two Republican administrations to suspend habeas
\ncorpus unilaterally, only to have their kept Congresses rubberstamp the
\ntyranny, have a lot in common, after all.<\/p>\n

No one serious who really thinks about it for more than 45 seconds
\ncan conclude there would still be slave plantations in America if not
\nfor Lincoln, so that smear just won’t work. Black Americans won’t fall
\nfor it either, despite the PC establishment that has taken for granted
\nthis demographic for so long. Americans of color can tell which
\nRepublicans are a genuine and grave threat to their liberty, and it’s
\nnot the one who challenges the corporatist warfare state that has
\nalways depended upon blacks as cannon fodder. <\/p>\n

But Ron Paul has done something that no presidential candidate of
\nany prominence has done in many, many years \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he has challenged the
\ncult of Lincoln, the ideological godhead of the modern American regime.
\nThe Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, the Wilsonian empire and now the
\nLincolnian central state have all become national issues of discourse
\nagain. Thanks, Ron Paul. Once again, you have told the American people
\nwhat they need to hear. If we want America to become a free country, we
\nmust go further than overturning the legacy of George W. Bush. We must
\noverturn much more, and replace it with liberty itself. We are closer
\nto that goal than ever, as the ideological basis for the modern
\nAmerican system is crumbling at every moment of exposure to Dr. Paul’s
\ntruth serum. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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