Ruination Day

6 thoughts on “Ruination Day”

1. “the great emancipator” was nothing of the sort – his regime was the first strike that led to the death of our Republic. He was a petty tyrant – and the world would have been better had Booth gotten to him 5 years earlier.

   The War of Northern Aggression was *NOT* fought over slavery – as should be obvious to anyone who can see past the BS they were fed by the .gov’s propaganda machine.

   Think!

   (1) When did the war start?
   (2) When was the battle of Gettysburg?
   (3) When was the so-called “emancipation proclamation” signed?
   (4) Did the so-called “emancipation proclamation” free all the slaves or just some of them? (4a) If the latter, who – specifically – did it claim to “free”?
   (5) Given this fact, did it – in reality – free anyone at all?

   A GENUINE study of the time will open your mind to all sorts of unpleasant realities. For me, this was the “red pill” which made me begin to question everything else they’d “taught” me, and to see how most of it was pure, lying propaganda.

   Lincoln was a tyrant – nothing more or less.

   1. I find it kind of funny, Dad, that in my family, as a child I was taught the exact opposite of what you were taught. According to my family, Lincoln was akin to the Devil. If it wasn’t for him the blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Mexicans would have remained in their place and we would all be living in some sot of White utopia. Once I made it to high school and was free to study many different points of view, I decided, for myself, that the Civil War was indeed fought over slavery with a heavy dose of import/export tariff inequity.

      Now that I’m older, I have come to the conclusion that History is a lot like religion. It just depends on which fairytale you choose to believe (except that history has a lot more facts, but those ‘facts’ are open to interpretation).

      Let me ask you this, Dad, if the South had won the war, would there still be slaves there? And, would that be a ‘good’ thing?

      Most wars are fought over the same reasons. Some power-driven people use fear based emotional rhetoric to whip up the non-thinking populace to the point of wanting to kill other people, and then insist that they do so.

      May God (if there is one) help mankind, Because we sure seem incapable of helping ourselves.

2. 1. When did the War start: April 12, 1861, when South Carolina forces shelled the United States military at Fort Sumter.

   2. When was the Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3, 1863.

   3. The Emancipation Proclamation: On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln announced that if the rebellious states did not return to the Union, he would issue a proclamation freeing the slaves in those states by January 1, 1863. On January 1, 1863, he issued such an order.

   4. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the states that were in rebellion. The President used his power as Commander in Chief under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution to free the slaves in the rebellious states because they were aiding the war against the United States.

   Lincoln could not, however, actually free them; is armies had to. Those states had to be won militarily to make it happen.

   Lincoln could not free the slaves in the border states and other places not at war with the United States because the Constitution gave him no such power. Lincoln could not free the slaves in the Union states because there were no slaves there. The states themselves had made slavery illegal.

   5. An estimated 70,000 slaves became free the day the Proclamation was issued. As the Union armies advanced, nearly all 4 million became free. Slavery was finally made illegal everywhere by the 13th Amendment, adopted December 6, 1865.

3. I know we shouldn’t feed the trolls, but Dad, you seem like you need a hug and maybe a couple of rounds of “Kumbaya” once you change out of those tattered old Jefferson Davis PJs.

4. PS – cool clown Gravatar, Ken.

5. The gravatar image is a photo of a Koshari kachina that I own. Among other traits, Koshari represents doing embrrassing things in public — this blog for one.

Comments are closed.