All truths await
By Capt. Fogg
It's
been asserted that Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother was
illegitimate and that President Lincoln himself was her illegitimate
son. History as is commonly taught to school children seems to have
left the legitimacy claims behind to those who continue to impugn the
man on the Dollar bill and continue to say the same sort of things about
every enemy of injustice ever since. Certainly those who continue to
growl and grumble about the man who bent and broke rules to get the 13th
amendment through Congress have much in common with Lincoln's mid 19th
century detractors, Northern and Southern, and our current assailants
of nearly every Democratic president since FDR. It's tempting to
believe that Americans of today, with their rabid and intransigent and
often delusional views are something quite new, but Lincoln's campaign for re-election has far too much in common with Barack Obama's effort to make that idea stand on it's own.
He's a tyrant! he's the enemy of freedom! He's trashing the Constitution and our rights! -- are we talking about Lincoln, or Roosevelt. or Kennedy or Clinton? All of them and more have faced such accusations. Did Obama go on an "apology tour?" Did Honest Abe openly endorse 'miscegenation' (a term that may have been coined by the Religious Right,) and were there articles and pamphlets describing a ball that never happened where 'colored belles' danced with white men and containing fake pictures? Yes there were! just as Houston was flooded with wanted posters and other leaflets the day Kennedy was murdered.
Relates Donald E. Wilkes, Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law; ostensibly for such things as not forcing Communists to register with the government and for "turning the country over to the UN." Heard it all before? Of course we have and we've heard it ever since and from the same damned people in many cases. "The American Fact Finding Committee" apparently actually the John Birch Society, printed one of those insidious, seditious calumnies. Fred C Koch, founder of Koch Industries ( who used to do business with the USSR) and founder of the John Birch Society and father to the Koch Brothers bankrollers of the Tea Party now hounding Obama with the same slimy and false accusations. Like Father, like sons. Like American Conservatism, like Treason.
Perhaps the "Modern Man" of the mid 19th century of whom Whitman sang isn't much different from the modern men and women who sit up nights fabricating stories about Barack Obama's ancestry and actions. 19th century calumnies about "Abraham Africanus I" and his fictitious dialogues with Satan smell as ugly as anything Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh or the Koch boys have ever cooked up in their stew-pots. No, I'm afraid America's 'Conservatives,' those people who will go to war to preserve the past and particularly a fictitious past designed to cover up injustice and promote privilege, have been with us all along.
Did the infamous but recently recrudescent Joe McCarthy really say "show me a man who talks about the Constitution and I'll show you a communist?" I don't know, but his 'Conservative' henchmen didn't think that was as anti-American or trashing the constitution or beyond the definition of free speech as reading Marx or having a certain political opinion or promoting civil rights -- and even, in the case of Lincoln: ending constitutional support for slavery. The Gospel chewing Bible bullies, the feudal Barons of industry then and now only care about the constitution when someone tries to use it to preserve individual liberty, and so granting the same rights to Biblical pariahs as to others, is "trashing the constitution" when Obama -- or Africanus II -- favors it.
All truth waits, but who cares to look when it's too likely to challenge our politics, our lies, our precious delusions, our profits, our power?
All truths wait in all things
-Walt Whitman-
He's a tyrant! he's the enemy of freedom! He's trashing the Constitution and our rights! -- are we talking about Lincoln, or Roosevelt. or Kennedy or Clinton? All of them and more have faced such accusations. Did Obama go on an "apology tour?" Did Honest Abe openly endorse 'miscegenation' (a term that may have been coined by the Religious Right,) and were there articles and pamphlets describing a ball that never happened where 'colored belles' danced with white men and containing fake pictures? Yes there were! just as Houston was flooded with wanted posters and other leaflets the day Kennedy was murdered.
"At the very time shots were being fired at President Kennedy a right-wing protestor stood a few feet away, heckling JFK by comparing him to Neville Chamberlain"
Relates Donald E. Wilkes, Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law; ostensibly for such things as not forcing Communists to register with the government and for "turning the country over to the UN." Heard it all before? Of course we have and we've heard it ever since and from the same damned people in many cases. "The American Fact Finding Committee" apparently actually the John Birch Society, printed one of those insidious, seditious calumnies. Fred C Koch, founder of Koch Industries ( who used to do business with the USSR) and founder of the John Birch Society and father to the Koch Brothers bankrollers of the Tea Party now hounding Obama with the same slimy and false accusations. Like Father, like sons. Like American Conservatism, like Treason.
Perhaps the "Modern Man" of the mid 19th century of whom Whitman sang isn't much different from the modern men and women who sit up nights fabricating stories about Barack Obama's ancestry and actions. 19th century calumnies about "Abraham Africanus I" and his fictitious dialogues with Satan smell as ugly as anything Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh or the Koch boys have ever cooked up in their stew-pots. No, I'm afraid America's 'Conservatives,' those people who will go to war to preserve the past and particularly a fictitious past designed to cover up injustice and promote privilege, have been with us all along.
Did the infamous but recently recrudescent Joe McCarthy really say "show me a man who talks about the Constitution and I'll show you a communist?" I don't know, but his 'Conservative' henchmen didn't think that was as anti-American or trashing the constitution or beyond the definition of free speech as reading Marx or having a certain political opinion or promoting civil rights -- and even, in the case of Lincoln: ending constitutional support for slavery. The Gospel chewing Bible bullies, the feudal Barons of industry then and now only care about the constitution when someone tries to use it to preserve individual liberty, and so granting the same rights to Biblical pariahs as to others, is "trashing the constitution" when Obama -- or Africanus II -- favors it.
All truth waits, but who cares to look when it's too likely to challenge our politics, our lies, our precious delusions, our profits, our power?
Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, damned lies, John Birch Society, Koch Brothers
posted by Libby Spencer at 2:40 PM
5 Comments:
Nice rant Fogg. An interesting bit of trivia about that full-page "Welcome Mr. Kennedy" smear-job published in the Dallas Morning News on the morning of 11/22/1963 is that it was partially funded by the patriarch of another rich, Texas oil family... Nelson Bunker Hunt
Thanks. When thinking about other rich Texas Oil families, don't forget the Bush's who made their fortune trading with Hitler. Oil corrupts. Oil has destroyed or prevented democracy everywhere it's found. The fires of Hell are fueled with oil.
I read a pretty good book about Lincoln's mother being illegitimate and Lincoln being the bastard son of a Virginia slave holding family. I cant' remember the name only that it was written in 1934 by a Southern historian.
Bastard perhaps, but a magnificent bastard none the less.
Good reminder. Politics have always been ugly. But no less galling in any age when the liars are given credence.
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