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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Sic semper tyrannis; the shooting of the Northern tyrant Sic semper tyrannis; the shooting of the Northern tyrant Posted on April 14, 2016 by Bob Livingston Currier and Ives depiction of Lincoln assassination On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth slipped into a private box at Ford’s Theater and fired a shot into the back of President Abraham Lincoln’s head. After slashing an army officer who tried to grab him, Booth jumped from the box and onto the stage — a stage on which he had performed as an actor many times – and shouted “Sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants) – the South is avenged.” He then hobbled out of the theater on a broken leg (he broke it in his jump), mounted a horse and made his getaway. Lincoln died the next morning, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated. The South was anything but avenged by Booth’s actions. Lincoln, through his generals, had waged total war on the South. There was apparently little concern over the killing of women and children, and the South was plundered for its resources and its homes and farmland was torched and livestock slaughtered and fed to Northern soldiers, leaving Southerners destitute. Some 850,000 people died as a result of the war, the equivalent of close to 9 million people in today’s population. Lincoln made war on the South not to free the slaves, as the Lincoln cultists continue to proclaim. He stated in his inaugural address that “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” He also wrote in a letter to Horace Greeley: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” What Lincoln wanted to save was the system of protectionism and the inflow to the federal treasury of tariff moneys imposed on the South. He was a former Whig, bankster lobbyist and crony capitalist who pushed for the reprisal of a national (central) bank. In addition to asserting that he would not interfere with slavery, in his inaugural address he threatened the Southern states with invasion if they did not comply with terms of the Morrill tariff, passed by Congress and signed by President James Buchanan two days before Lincoln’s inauguration. The bill raised the tariff rate from 15 percent to 37.5 percent and expanded the list of items, essentially tripling the tax burden. The South was paying about 80 percent of the tariff and most of the money collected was spent on Northern projects and interests. “The power confided in me,” he said, “will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion — no using force against, or among the people anywhere.” As Lincoln historian Thomas J. DiLorenzo writes, Lincoln was essentially telling the Southern states, “‘We are going to make tax slaves out of you and if you resist, there will be an invasion.’ That was on March 4. Five weeks later, on April 12, Fort Sumter, a tariff collection point in Charleston Harbor, was bombarded by the Confederates. No one was hurt or killed, and Lincoln later revealed that he manipulated the Confederates into firing the first shot, which helped generate war fever in the North.” Because Lincoln died days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, signifying the defacto end of the war of Northern Aggression, there was at the time an ongoing Lincoln hero-worship in the North. He was at the height of his popularity. This, combined with the fact that the Radical Republicans controlled government and were able to, as the victors, write the history of the war, a cult of Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator” and saver of the Union took root and grew and continues to dominate today – thanks in no small part to the U.S. (non)education system. But what Lincoln did during the war with his unconstitutional invasion of the Southern states, the suspension of habeas corpus, the suspension of elections, and the interference with state politics was to create the ridiculous notion that anything the U.S. does is justified so long as it is couched in the term of spreading “freedom” around the globe, even if that freedom must be installed at gun point. And it paved the road for the imperial presidency under which we suffer today. Poster Comment: Unfortunately for all of us, Obummer will be the 44th and last President of the U.S. He may suspend the elections and become a dictator. 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John Wilkes Booth was Jewish. Wilkes was the family name of neighbors in Baltimore. Booth is from the Festival of Booths or Tabernacles, a Jewish holiday. His father fled London because the Jewish family wanted him to become a lawyer. They were silversmiths. He fled to America and became an actor. Just about all American Presidential assassinations involved Jews.
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