Abraham Lincoln’s America

By Chuck Baldwin
February 18, 2009

America just celebrated Presidents Day this past Monday. What first began as an observance for President George Washington has (since the 1980s) morphed into the generic “Presidents Day,” which is a politically correct celebration of mediocrity that forces our nation’s greatest President to be lumped together with incompetents such as Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter.

On the occasion of Presidents Day, a USA Today/Gallup poll asked the American people to select the greatest President. The top five Presidents, according to the Gallup poll, are (in order): Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and George Washington.

Can you believe it? George Washington was rated fifth. Fifth. With a vote total of only 9 percent, no less.

George Washington is positively the greatest American to ever live–bar none! It is no hyperbole to say that without Washington, there would be no United States of America. George Washington almost single-handedly kept a struggling colonial army (along with a fledgling nation, for that matter) together. Take away George Washington and there are no stories of Valley Forge, the crossing of the Delaware River, or Yorktown. Take away George Washington and there is no office of President of the United States. A lesser man (which would include almost everyone else in his generation) would doubtless have succumbed to the call of the multitude to institute a monarchy in America. A lesser man could not have delivered the greatest-of-all-Presidential-addresses that we find in his “Farewell Address.”

Washington’s Farewell Address became the guiding light and compass for American policy and philosophy for many generations. In fact, it is the abandonment of the principles of that address that is systematically destroying this country. Therefore, a return to the wisdom of that address would doubtless return our country to its former greatness.

There is only one “Father of His Country,” and it is George Washington. Yet, in the minds of today’s Americans, Washington is inferior to the likes of F.D.R. and Abraham Lincoln. Furthermore, the Gallup survey concludes that both Democrats and Republicans (and conservatives and liberals) share special infatuation with Lincoln.

I have witnessed the veracity of Gallup’s findings. Go to just about any private Christian school and one will find Abraham Lincoln idolized almost to the point of deification. The same is also true in state schools, of course.

Now, virtually everyone is saying that the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Lincoln’s vision. They might be right. But just exactly what does that mean?

According to the current edition of Newsweek magazine, “We are all socialists now.” The article states, “The U.S. government has already–under a conservative Republican administration–effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries.” It continued, “Whether we want to admit it or not . . . the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.”

Again quoting Newsweek, “The architect of this new era of big government? History has a sense of humor, for the man who laid the foundations for the world Obama now rules is George W. Bush, who moved to bail out the financial sector last autumn with $700 billion.

“Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton’s end of big government.”

Unfortunately, Newsweek is dead right.

By the end of two G.W. Bush terms and one Obama term, the United States will resemble socialist France far more than the independent nation envisioned–and created–by George Washington. Yes, in a very real and practical sense, this really is Abraham Lincoln’s America.

More than any other single person, Abraham Lincoln shaped and formed modern America. It was Abraham Lincoln who was the first President to flagrantly and deliberately violate his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. His disregard and contempt for the Constitution cannot be overstated.

In order to “preserve the Union,” Lincoln destroyed the very principles upon which the Union was created. His audacity is without equal. For example, to prevent a possible vote of secession by the Maryland legislature, Lincoln ordered federal troops to seize and arrest the Maryland congressional delegation. And of course, he was more than willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of America’s finest and best to destroy Jefferson’s declaration that the states of our Union are “Free and Independent States.”

I invite all those pro-Lincoln apologists out there to seriously answer this question: Does an abusive husband who beats and batters his wife have the right to force her (at the point of gun) to remain married to him? (Even the God of the Bible, Who cast marriage in the most sacred terms, recognizes the right of lawful separation.) If you answer no, how can you continue to justify Abraham Lincoln’s actions? In a political and governmental sense, that is exactly what Lincoln did. Forced union, of any kind, is slavery. In the name of emancipating slaves, Lincoln enslaved an entire nation.

It was Abraham Lincoln who, for all intents and purposes, destroyed federalism and limited government in America. In fact, on December 15, 1866, renowned British historian, Lord Acton, wrote a letter to General Robert E. Lee. In the letter, Acton said, “I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”

It was Abraham Lincoln who first established the Nanny State, Big Government, Big Brother, etc. Everything that Big-Government Presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama learned, they learned from Abraham Lincoln. That is why these men love to quote Lincoln so much.

What is appalling is the manner in which the American people (including professed conservatives and Christians) have allowed the politically correct propaganda machine to brainwash their reasoning. Conservatives and liberals, and Democrats and Republicans, now embrace Abraham Lincoln’s America. As Newsweek said, “We are all socialists now.”

On what could prove to be a very interesting and even promising note, however, is the fact that more than twenty states have recently proposed (or are in the process of drafting) resolutions advancing their individual state sovereignty. What do these states see coming? Do they see Socialism’s twin sister, Oppression, lurking around the corner? Are these states looking into the future and preparing to take a stand for freedom and independence? What an exciting prospect! Perhaps the great country that George Washington birthed is not dead after all.

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Jerome Corsi Discusses State Sovereignty

Alternative media activist Alex Jones and author Jerome Corsi will discuss steps some states are taking to preserve sovereignty and personal freedoms which include gun ownership, gold & silver ownership, & home schooling.

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Constitution Party Opposes Illegal Alien Advocate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONSTITUTION PARTY OPPOSES

ILLEGAL ALIEN ADVOCATE AS DIRECTOR OF

MISSOURI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPT.

Jefferson City, Feb. 10—The Missouri State Senate today, in a voice vote, confirmed illegal alien advocate, Linda Martinez, as Director of the Missouri Economic Development Department.

While working pro bono for the Bryan Cave Law Firm, Ms Martinez led the fight to repeal duly passed city ordinances in the St. Louis suburb of Valley Park that included penalties for the hiring and housing of illegal immigrants. These ordinances were put in place in 2006 to stem the tide of illegal immigrants in the small town. Ms Martinez spearheaded a group of more than twenty lawyers from organizations, including the ACLU, against the City and the rule of law. Ultimately, a federal court judge totally exonerated the City from every count brought against them.

“We’re disappointed that Governor Nixon had even considered her for such a position,” said Missouri Constitution Party Chairman Donna Ivanovich, “and we’re stunned that they deliberately chose not to have a recorded vote.”

“At a time when the country is in economic crisis and Missouri citizens are struggling to keep their jobs and worrying about their family’s future, these senators should not be supporting a person who desires to allow Missouri businesses to employ illegal aliens.

We find Ms. Martinez’s professional efforts to support illegal aliens to be in direct conflict with current Missouri immigration law.

“Members of the State Senate know that their constituents are enraged with this action,” said Ivanovich, “Constitution Party members and grassroots organizations statewide have flooded their offices with phone calls, emails, and letters ever since Governor Nixon nominated Ms Martinez. They now know that there are informed citizens in this state who are following what goes on in Jefferson City, and they aren’t afraid to let their opinions be known to their elected public officials.”

Missouri Constitution Party Chairman Donna Ivanovich can be reached for additional comment at 314-956-6181 or donnaivanovich@constitutionpartymo.org

Tax Tyranny

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President And Congress Grovel Before The Fed

By Chuck Baldwin
Feb 10 2009

According to Bloomberg News (Monday, February 9, 2009), “The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.

“The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two years and pledged up to $5.7 trillion more. The Senate is to vote this week on an economic-stimulus measure of at least $780 billion. It would need to be reconciled with an $819 billion plan the House approved last month.

“Only the stimulus bill to be approved this week, the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed four months ago and $168 billion in tax cuts and rebates enacted in 2008 have been voted on by lawmakers. The remaining $8 trillion is in lending programs and guarantees, almost all under the Fed and FDIC. RECIPIENTS’ NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED. [Emphasis added]

“‘We’ve seen money go out the back door of this government unlike any time in the history of our country,’ Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, said on the Senate floor Feb. 3. ‘Nobody knows what went out of the Federal Reserve Board, to whom and for what purpose. How much from the FDIC? How much from TARP? When? Why?’”

Senator Dorgan is exactly right. No one oversees the Fed. The Fed is held accountable to absolutely nobody. But Senator Dorgan (as with everyone else in Congress) has no one to blame but himself. Ever since the Marxist, E. Mandell House, convinced President Woodrow Wilson to create the Federal Reserve in 1913, the Congress of the United States has had virtually nothing to do with the way our fiscal policies are managed. The Fed (which is not even a government agency, but rather a private corporation consisting of mostly foreign bankers) dictates America’s financial policies.

The reality of just how our civil magistrates have come to grovel before the Fed was revealed in a column written recently by Cal Thomas. Mind you, Cal was not trying to castigate President Bush in his column. Just the opposite: his column was full of praise and adulation for the former President. In recounting his last interview with President George W. Bush, however, Cal unwittingly revealed the almost limitless power that the Fed wields over even the President of the United States.

Here is what Cal wrote: “Bush defends himself against a charge by a member of the Republican National Committee that he has behaved like a ’socialist’ because of his massive bailout spending. He [Bush] says he still believes in less government spending, but when Henry Paulson, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, tell him that if he doesn’t act, the result will be worse that the Great Depression, ‘you can sit there and say to yourself, “well, I’m going to stick to principle and hope for the best, or I’m going to take the actions necessary to prevent the worst.”‘”

In other words, when the Fed says, “Jump!” the President asks, “How high?” And, with the exception of Congressman Ron Paul of Texas (and maybe one or two others), the same is true for members of the House and Senate.

In other words, ladies and gentlemen, America is being run by a private banking cartel, the majority of whom are not even citizens of these United States.

Ever since the Fed was created in 1913, America has been subjected to recession after recession, not to mention one Great Depression. Some are even predicting that the United States is now actually entering a second Great Depression. Please understand this: the Federal Reserve has manipulated every bit of this financial crisis for the express purpose of enriching the international bankers on the backs (and bankruptcies) of the American taxpayers. And what does our illustrious Congress do? They continue to give billions and even trillions of taxpayer dollars to the very same group of gangsters who created and perpetuate this financial fraud. And, as with Congress, Presidents from both major parties likewise promote and defend this chicanery.

Yet, the U.S. Constitution, in Article. I. Section. 8. Paragraph. 5., clearly gives Congress the authority “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.”

This constitutional requirement makes two obvious demands: 1) only the elected Congress, not some private foreign (or even domestic) banking interest, has the power to make monetary policy, 2) U.S. currency must be hard currency, i.e. gold and silver. Paper money–known as the Federal Reserve Notes–is not even legal tender under the U.S. Constitution.

In truth, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 is itself unconstitutional. In simple terms, the Act did not amend or expunge Article. I. Section. 8. Paragraph. 5. of the Constitution; it merely ignored it. (And Congresses and Presidents have been ignoring the Constitution ever since.)

In fact, Article. I. Section. 10. Paragraph 1. of the U.S. Constitution specifically states, “No State shall . . . coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.”

Can anyone not see that the Federal Reserve is an illegitimate system? I will even go so far as to say that the Federal Reserve should be regarded as a corrupt, criminal system! If I were President, not only would I do everything in my power to oppose any and all financial bailouts to these international banksters, I would instruct the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges of fraud, corruption, manipulation, and outright thievery against the Fed. Instead of padding their fat assets in a million-dollar penthouse, they should be serving most of the rest of their lives in the Big House.

In the meantime, Congressman Ron Paul has again introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to terminate the Federal Reserve. It is H.R. 833: To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks. The Bill was introduced on February 3 and, to date, has no cosponsors. That’s right. No cosponsors.

Until the American people demand that their elected members of Congress live up to their duties and responsibilities under the Constitution, they will continue to have their pockets picked clean by these corrupt banksters in New York City (and London) and their contemptible facilitators in Washington, D.C. Passing Dr. Paul’s bill would be a great place to start.

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Time To Change The Congress

By Raymond Kish
Constitution Party of Missouri

Its time to change the Congress. We just can’t afford them any more. Like a light bulb that uses too much energy and is replaced by a more efficient one, we need to do the same with this Congress. Under the management of Republicans and Democrats, our country now finds itself on the door step of a total financial collapse. The dollar is in danger of crashing, home values have sunk and jobs are disappearing. Failing to see the error of their ways, politicians in both parties continue to borrow and spend away our nations future.

Unfortunately, when times were good, most people weren’t paying attention to what was happening in our government. That’s nobody’s fault but our own. History is replete with too many examples of crooked politicians and people who abused their power for us to have let that happen. And while our back was turned, the snakes were wheeling and dealing with the lobbyists. The porkers started piling on the pork. Everybody wanted a piece of the taxpayer pie and everybody was getting one. Your money was being spent as fast as it could be borrowed or printed, leaving you and your posterity on the hook to pay the note when it comes due.

Now that hard times are upon us, most people are starting to pay attention. But they are looking to the same people who got us into this mess, for a solution to get us out of it. That my friends is the definition of insanity. Let me ask you a question, if you had given Bernie Madoff all your money to invest and he beat you out of it, would you go back to him when you had more money to invest? No, you wouldn’t. That would be insane. Then why would you go back to the same two failed parties in Congress for a solution to a problem that they themselves created? Democrats and Republicans bankrupted your children, destroyed the American economy and they don’t even have a clue as to how it happened. So how is it that we expect these people to have any clue when it comes to solving the current economic crisis? We shouldn’t, because they don’t. They just keep employing the same faulty policies that created the crises to begin with, while dreaming up new ones which will surely make it worse.

The truth is both parties are to blame and neither can be trusted to fix the problem. They need to be replaced with a third party. One that is true to the United States Constitution and the principles of our Founding Fathers. That party is the Constitution Party. Its the only viable third party that can and will reverse the current crisis. “How will they do that”, you ask? Firstly they will abandon the current level of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place. Secondly they will follow the example of our Founding Fathers that built this country into the powerhouse it was in glory days gone by. A country that was free from oppressive government, a country that had a strong defense but did not set out to police the world, a country that had an economy that was second to none. A country where anything was possible, where people came to pursue their dreams, not to come get a hand out. It can all be done again. All we have to do is use the blueprint that the Founders have left us.

The Democrats and Republicans have done great harm to the very people who put them in office. They have sent our jobs away, left our borders wide open, and pursued a monetary policy along with a borrowing and spending policy that has us on the brink of an economic depression. They do not deserve your vote. They should not get your vote. They will only deliver more of the same and that is something we just cannot afford. At this point in our history every American needs to join the Constitution Party and help us take back our country and restore it to its former glory. It can and will be done, and we want you to be a part of it. Please come and join us visit the link to find out more http://www.constitutionpartymo.org/membership/ .

Changing the Congress can be as easy as changing an inefficient light bulb. All it takes is the courage of your convictions to vote for candidates from a truly American party, the Constitution Party.