By Al Benson Jr. On February 25 at 4:55 PM
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Are the Feds Admitting
That Lincoln
Was a Leftist?
By Al Benson Jr.
There was a recent
article on http://archieve.newsmax.com
written by Marc Morano, the headline for which was “Feds’ Video Implies Lincoln
Would Have Supported Leftist Causes.” That caught my eye, given the research I
have done on Lincoln
over the years. The article started out:
“A video presented at the Lincoln Memorial appears to suggest that former
President Abraham Lincoln would have supported modern-day, left-of-center political causes such as
homosexual rights, abortion and the modern feminist agenda.”
Some visitors to the
memorial thought the whole thing was an attempt at political correctness while
others told CNSNews they felt “…the video clearly implies that Lincoln would have supported left-wing
political causes.”
The video is only about
eight minutes in length but shows scenes from various leftist marches and
demonstrations. Given his racist tendencies it is questionable whether Lincoln would have
supported “civil rights” marches, but given his leftist tendencies, which show
up if you take the trouble to do the homework, there is little doubt he would
have supported much of the rest of the left-wing agenda. These kinds of
statements shock people and mostly they don’t want to listen, so rather than
making the effort to do some research to find out where Lincoln really was, they try to verbally
shoot the messenger.
If you really want an
overview of where Lincoln was coming from then read the book Walter Kennedy and
I wrote Lincoln’s Marxists published
just last July by Pelican Press in Gretna, Louisiana. Lincoln and his socialist
and Marxist cohorts are revealed in living liberal color and you will find out things about Lincoln you really didn’t
want to know but should.
Some of those that viewed
the video had interesting reactions. A high school student from Louisiana said: “I liked it…I think (Lincoln)
would have supported homosexual and abortion rights because that’s how Lincoln was; he was very
supportive of the people.” This student probably got her view of Lincoln from her public
school history book (if they even use those anymore.) Another viewer agreed
that Lincoln would have supported today’s
leftist causes because “(Lincoln)
seemed like a very progressive, forward-thinking man, ahead of his time.” So,
many view leftism today as being the way to go, the wave of the future, and so
on. Socialists and Marxists have been spouting that line since the 1840s and
the fruit of their efforts has cost the world untold millions of lives as
leftist dictators have sought to bring in “the will of the people” with guns
and revolution. No matter how much destruction and misery they cause and how
many lives they ruin, it is always “for the people.” Trouble is they never
really let you know which people because it sure isn’t for ordinary folks. I
suspect the “people” this is really for are the socialists and their fat-cat
friends—at the expense of everyone else.
So was Lincoln a leftist
and would he have supported left-wing causes? Of course he would. If you take
the trouble to research him you are forced to conclude this is where he was
coming from. His friends and supporters in government had what I have termed a
“Yankee/Marxist mindset.” For him and them, the end justified the means. His
armies and the early Republican Party were loaded with socialist and communist
revolutionaries from the 1848 socialist revolts in Europe.
On January 12, 1848 Lincoln gave a speech in
which he said “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.” Many
think Lincoln
was referring to conditions in this country when he said this. They forget that
he gave this speech only a few short weeks before the socialist revolts in Europe commenced. What Lincoln
was doing was giving his blessing to the socialists and communists in Europe for what they were about to undertake. The proof
in the pudding came in 1861 when many of these same socialists and communists
joined Lincoln
to enable him to quash legitimate secession in the South.
Writer Norman Black wrote
an article dealing with the Union army raid on Athens, Alabama in which he
noted that “Col John Basil Turchin encouraged his regiment, the 19th
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, along with the 24th Illinois (a
regiment of German immigrants) to carry out atrocities against the citizens of
Athens, Alabama, and their property.
These included stealing non-combatant-civilians property, burning
buildings, and rape.” The 24th Illinois
regiment were Forty-eighter socialists from Europe.
Turchin was tried and court-martialed. And what was Lincoln’s gentle response? Lincoln annulled Turchin’s
dishonorable discharge and had him
promoted to a brigadier general—signaling that atrocities against Southern
folks were permissible—indeed were part of the Union war effort.
So, would Lincoln have supported
current leftist projects? Of course he would—he did in 1861 and thereafter.
Actually what you have going on here, with this video at the Lincoln Memorial
is the Feds finally getting to the point where they can begin to admit Lincoln’s leftist tendencies
to the public and the news media will start gauging public reaction to it.
The secular deity of
America is slowly being revealed and, as time passes, and more of this comes
out, the public will eventually begin to see that Lincoln was, in many ways,
the Obama of his day and those that have staunchly defended him may end up with
a bit of egg on their faces.