JWB & Brutus + Lincoln & Ceasar

Thomas DiLorenzo’s, The Real Lincoln.



-Lincoln greatly expanded the powers of the Presidency, further than any President before him had done...

-By 1863, Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus (the right of a prisoner to legally challenge his arrest in court) for Southern sympathizers and draft dodgers...

-Lincoln had an estimated 30,000 political prisoners being held without charge or trial during the Civil War...

-Lincoln had border state legislators arrested and imprisoned so that they could not vote for secession.

-He shut down opposition newspapers.

-He had personal mail illegally searched.

-And he entered a military conflict without a vote of Congress.

To many in both the North and South, Lincoln was the textbook definition of a tyrant, no better than King George III, committing exactly the crimes the Declaration of Independence condemns: taxation without representation; martial law; deprivation of habeas corpus and trial by jury; the waging of an "unfair" war; and the abolition of self-rule, the primary principle of democracy...To many in the South, their only option was to follow the Declaration, believing as it said that "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

-http://www.newlinetheatre.com/assassins.html