tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post7625541095689164670..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Paging Thomas DiLorenzoRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-19981758519381305122013-10-14T23:31:34.588-04:002013-10-14T23:31:34.588-04:00Btw, does the Lincoln lover think that the states ...Btw, does the Lincoln lover think that the states could not secede from the union? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-49425886342380532912013-10-14T20:02:33.327-04:002013-10-14T20:02:33.327-04:00Lincoln didn't support sending free slaves &qu...Lincoln didn't support sending free slaves "anywhere but here" he supported sending ALL blacks, free or slave, to Haiti, Liberia, or anywhere but here. During his senate race, he repeatedly stated he was against blacks immigrating to Illinois bc they were cheaper labor than whites and would drive poor whites out of jobs. <br /><br />If Lincoln fought the war over slavery, why did Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-66796186740391592622013-10-14T13:06:41.846-04:002013-10-14T13:06:41.846-04:00Along with DiLorenzo's books, see the followin...Along with DiLorenzo's books, see the following:<br /><br />For the argument that the Civil War had to do with tarriffs and taxation, see Charles Adams "When In the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Sececession"<br />http://www.amazon.com/When-Course-Human-Events-Secession/dp/0847697231<br /><br />For the view that the Civil War freed some but enslaved all of us,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-19714490747167737202013-10-14T08:15:02.381-04:002013-10-14T08:15:02.381-04:00So much derp, so little time...
First, I never me...So much derp, so little time...<br /><br />First, I never mentioned Lincoln and neither did the excerpt of Rand Paul's interview with Candy Crowley cited above. Only Bob Wenzel mentioned Lincoln by bringing up Tom DiLorenzo's book. However, that does not change the fact that Rand was right and the Radical Republicans in Congress pushed the Thirteenth Amendment through and abolished Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-68259244106914898832013-10-14T07:58:20.235-04:002013-10-14T07:58:20.235-04:00Well argued, I feel so much more enlightened as to...Well argued, I feel so much more enlightened as to your plight...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44268068560370403602013-10-14T06:43:48.660-04:002013-10-14T06:43:48.660-04:00@ AnonymousOctober 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM
"Tony...@ AnonymousOctober 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM<br /><br />"Tony, first things first, if the Civil War was not about slavery, please explain what it was about."<br /><br />It was about "preserving the union." Lincoln couldn't have cared less about the slaves. The words out of his own mouth make abundantly clear his intentions were not to end slavery. He even wanted to ship them outTonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-77585215527978209112013-10-14T00:41:43.761-04:002013-10-14T00:41:43.761-04:00Dear Anonymous Troll,
Before you post ignorant rem...Dear Anonymous Troll,<br />Before you post ignorant remarks, read the title of the post, then read the book linked in the post, after which you may return and attempt to post an intelligent repudiation of the thesis. For extra credit, read Lerone Bennett's Forced Into Glory.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-58607971774667085282013-10-13T23:01:56.711-04:002013-10-13T23:01:56.711-04:00The War Between the States had very little to do w...The War Between the States had very little to do with slavery. It had everything to do with tariffs and controls on the Southern economy. They were being screwed so badly by the Northern industrialists who put Dishonest Abe in office, they couldn't afford to free the slaves if they wanted to - and many did, including Robert E. Lee. The South should have been allowed to leave and solve their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-37922634015793197462013-10-13T21:06:26.735-04:002013-10-13T21:06:26.735-04:00"Mike, you're a slave? You are currently ..."Mike, you're a slave? You are currently held in bondage, forced to perform labor for free, subject to beatings and sexual abuse with no legal recourse, and liable to sale at the whim of a master who considers you his property because you are a member of a supposedly inferior race? How did that happen?"<br /><br />Are you really this delusional? Little child, please start thinking Mikehttp://antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-51854788116672635742013-10-13T18:23:06.271-04:002013-10-13T18:23:06.271-04:00Pretty much everything Obama does these days has i...Pretty much everything Obama does these days has its basis in what Lincoln first did. Throwing thousands in jail without charge or trial, spying on letters and newspapers, shutting down newspapers, targeting civilians with acts of war, etc are all great legacies of Lincoln. The word parsing and lying with the emancipation proclamation that exempted any areas where the north had control was a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-16260475518559177072013-10-13T17:10:30.317-04:002013-10-13T17:10:30.317-04:00Tony, first things first, if the Civil War was not...Tony, first things first, if the Civil War was not about slavery, please explain what it was about. Second, I mentioned nothing about Lincoln. I mentioned the Republican Party's role in emancipating Southern slaves, which was done through passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.<br /><br />Mike, you're a slave? You are currently held in bondage, forced to perform labor for free, subject to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-75574381391098319492013-10-13T16:23:39.738-04:002013-10-13T16:23:39.738-04:00Freeing millions while enslaving everybody. Yeah, ...Freeing millions while enslaving everybody. Yeah, awesome job!Mikehttp://antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-501785703005838172013-10-13T14:22:55.509-04:002013-10-13T14:22:55.509-04:00Yeah right. As if the civil war had anything to do...Yeah right. As if the civil war had anything to do with ending slavery. <br />It's funny how a Rand apologist spews all the usual mythology and mainstream propaganda. Any more proof Rand is for the status quo? Just look at his supporters buying the court historian account of Abe Lincoln.Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-33581768341039255422013-10-13T12:22:27.984-04:002013-10-13T12:22:27.984-04:00You get him Bob! How dare he rhetorically promote ...You get him Bob! How dare he rhetorically promote his party by highlighting its historical role in freeing millions of people from human bondage when he should be following his father's lead and endorsing candidates who want to use state power to ban blowjobs... for shame, Rand...<br /><br />Cuccinelli 2016!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-15444268786889733502013-10-13T12:16:08.198-04:002013-10-13T12:16:08.198-04:00Rand has absolutely no balls whatsoever. What a pu...Rand has absolutely no balls whatsoever. What a pussy. I guess he learned almost nothing from his father. Gag!Mikehttp://antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.com