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Under God or Gov’t? Would Lincoln Have Been Booed at DNC? Beck Poses Powerful Questions

Sep. 6, 2012 8:07am Jonathon M. Seidl

“Do not ignore the warning signs.”

That was Glenn Beck’s message on TheBlaze TV on Wednesday. Specifically, he pointed to governments putting themselves in the “role of God” and what results. “It’s not pretty.”

One warning sign he believes is quite clear is a video the Democrats played on screen on Tuesday night that said we “belong” to government.

“Is this the America you grew up knowing?” he asked. “When you imagine the future, is this the America you imagine is going to be better? One where you are property of the government.”

He of course then gave a little lesson on the Constitution and “we the people” owning the government, not the other way around. He also wondered if Abraham Lincoln would have been booed at the DNC. Watch it below:

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thibx
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:44am
communism taking the place of God. they don’t want God. they are trying to destroy america with oboma as their leader.

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- jzs
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 12:22pm
  Yes, Glenn. Democrats want everybody to be the property of the government. And to eliminate private property. And get rid of all religions except Islam. And cede sovereignty to the UN. And, worst of all, give Americans access to health care.
  
  Yes, that’s the vision of the liberals. Thank goodness there is somebody like Glenn to give us the TRUTH.
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:02pm
  Correct. Glenn Beck’s democrat/republican UNCONSTITUTIONAL Central Government Planning tries to replace God. And OH WHAT A JEALOUS GOD it is. It becomes your self-defense, your retirement, your healthcare, your mother, your father, your housing, your food, etc, etc…
  
  All you have to do is GET ON YOUR KNEES and bow to the Evil… or the “better” Evil.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:47am
They have done everything wrong thus far. All this time I thought federal agency heads were prohibited by the Hatch Act to campaign in support of political positions. http://www.osc.gov/haStateLocalwhoiscovered.htm

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:35am
Ron Paul booed by “Christians” for citing God’s Golden Rule:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-US_dF58Rw

“Do not ignore the warning signs,” right, Glenn? Where was your “show” for this? Anything? ANYTHING?!?!?!?!?

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- justangry
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:47am
  That was unbelievable. They are so easily fooled by propaganda they boo their own doctrine. I’m an agnostic and live by the golden rule. They don’t support the Just War theory of Christianity either. Very few on here have the ability to love their enemies, forgive other of their trespasses and turn the other cheek as well.
  
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- lefty5005
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 3:49pm
  Yea, those Christians are something. Perhaps they can start doing something constructive to the world like threatening annihilation of a nation and destruction of everyone on earth who is not Christian. After they do that Christians will ask members of the congregation to wear bomb vests and go around America blowing the hell out of every Tom, Dick and Harry. After that perhaps the Democrats will accept Christians as they have accepted Islam.
  
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- shakedowncrews
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 4:09pm
  What a silly statement you’ve made. The audience was NOT “booing Christ’s golden rule”. They were booing the simplicity of Ron Paul’s foreign policy notion that implied that attacks on the USA by al Qaeda are just retribution for what we’ve done to them. It’s a moronic assumption that the only reason we have problems in the world is because the big bad USA has caused the issues–so Ron Paul’s statement was just part of the “blame America first” mentality. THAT is what was being booed, certainly not the “Golden rule”
  
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- justangry
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:02pm
  It isn’t silly at all. We can’t meddle in other countries affairs and not expect retribution. There are bad men running our foreign policy. Not speaking out against it is the least patriotic thing one can do.
  
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:32am
Would Ron Paul have been booed by fake-conservatives for citing God’s Golden Rule in debate?

Oh… wait… he was.

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- shakedowncrews
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 4:12pm
  As usual, the brainless Paulbots squawk a lot but it is meaningless noise.
  
  The audience was NOT booing Christ’s “Golden Rule” but rather the implication of Paul’s half-baked foreign policy concept that is nothing more, and nothing less, than a spin of the “Blame America First” mantra of the left.
  
  If Paul had a serious, intelligent Foreign Policy, he EASILY would have won the nomination. But he doesn’t have one, and he lost the nomination–and RIGHTLY SO
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:52am
I still cannot believe the democraps were booing God. That moment should be a Republican commercial. It says volumes. Who are these people who rail against God and think government is their family? I tell you now that they are NOT Americans. They are like obama…they are strangers in our midst.

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thesouthwasrght
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:42am
Laughable question; would Lincoln have been booed at the FNC last night? LOL He’
s the one that paved the way for this. He is the one that destroyed true freedom and asserted the unrivaled power of the federal government. “Honest” Abe would be running around on that stage w/ a foam finger “We’re #1″ and doing back flips. Keep in mind, before y’all’s ingrained publik edukation kicks in to defend that heathen that one of his biggest pen-pal supporters was none other than….wait for it……….Karl Marx.

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TRILO
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:41am
I am by no means a fan of Lincoln. The current Republican party (as well as the Democrat party) has followed in his footsteps on the suspension of our Habeas Corpus rights and civil liberties under the guise of war. While the outcome of the civil war was the moral and right outcome, the civil war was about state secession over slavery. Revisionists always seem to leave out the key ingredient of secession when they talk about Lincoln and the civil war. Had the south not threatened to secede maybe the end of slavery could have been done through peaceful means and without the suspension of civil liberties.

In the end, once on the ballot, the Democrats and Republicans would vote for a dead dog if it were running under their party label. The current day democrats are now socialist/communists and the republican party is now the old democratic party and progressive enablers. JFK could have run on today’s republican ticket with his platform of cutting taxes, continued government and military spending. He didn’t believe in cutting taxes for the sake of cutting taxes, he knew that lower taxes = more government revenue = more government spending. The true conservative, limited government republican who adheres to our founding principles has long been gone. Most of today’s “conservative” candidates give lip service to the word. Just look at the R/R ticket and their voting records… big government and big spending but they sure are telling you a different line of today.

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ClaudeRains
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:28am
What a dumb question. They voted against God. Most blacks that vote Democrat would vote for slavery if the exalted one told them to.

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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:34am
  If they vote for Obama, they will vote for slavery. Slavery for all of us.
  
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oceanbnd
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:26am
Freedom Pac is going to Cincinnati Ohio to rally when they should be going to Columbus Ohio to rally. I’m there and surrounded by Obama supporters. Columbus is the real problem GLENN BECK..>COLUMBUS!

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- OldGeek72
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:54am
  I’m in the former ‘All-American City’ as well. Beck’s been here before to sold-out houses. I plan on attending the rally on the river and I think it’s a good location. Folks in KY, IN, IL have problems too and the Cinci location is more middle-ground. And here’s one for you Godless trolls: It’s close to the Creation Museum.
  
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:16am
I’m pretty sure that if we could somehow time travel and bring President Lincoln to the present and deposit him on the floor of the DNC, within 5 minutes of his arrival he would be acting more like Hollywood’s vampire slayer than like the wise unifier who delivered the Gettysburg Address. Honorable American men of the 19th century did not suffer fools like the modern democrat gladly. And Lincoln was, if nothing else, a man of action. Capitulation was not in his repertoire. Though I am sure that the first couple of minutes would be spent trying to reason with them, after he got shouted down by the hate-filled, venom-and-spittle-spewing zombies on all sides, he would find the nearest fire-axe and start swinging for the fences – for the good of The Republic.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:30am
  if there was ever a reason for time travel, it would be to bring the framers of our Constitution just prior to that writing. Upon their return a Constitution would appear with sterner words and an iron clad meaning.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:36am
  WOOL FREE . . .”Capitulation was not in his repertoire.”
  
  You don’t know much about Lincoln.
  
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bastone
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:14am
beck always poses questions. never answers

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:23am
  That’s your job.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:36am
  BASTONE, That tends to make you think for yourself. Glenn often suggests that you not just take his word, and for you to do your own research.
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:45am
  BASTONE, I understand your uncertainty. Some times I have found myself asking the same thing. And as 13th said, I know it’s our job. That is why we need to educate ourselves, fight for our rights, vote conservative, educate our children, and first and foremost relay in God and ask for His help to defeat the new communist party.
  
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grams09
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:05am
It always amazes me that my family, many of them church going Catholic’s, can continue to vote democratic. The issue of abortion alone should have them voting pro-life. I just don’t understand. And yes, they all have jobs (thank God) or are retired military. I guess when the government get complete control they can force us to work or not get food. I think that works in China.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:17am
  DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT there is nothing democratic about the DEMOCRAT party
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:26am
  Grams09 – I understad what you are saying. My family is just like yours. I think they have confused social justice with true concern for others. I also believe that their lives are so busy they don’t have time to search the truth, or watch or read what has been revealed about Obama. It is sad, isn’t it. I just pray a lot and hope the truth will be shown to them before they lose the America we have loved. It is truly a battle of good versus evil. I’m grateful for Mr. Beck. He has opened the eyes of many and done it in a very informative way. For the trolls on here – I hope your blinders come off soon too.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:50am
  Grams – you’re a perfect candidate for this. I thoroughly enjoy it; it’s very truthful and telling –
  
  http://www.churchmilitant.tv
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:59am
  We still have a large number of registered Democrats in our state. It went back to the Civil War and then the Reconstruction period. Republican may as well have been a four letter word (probably is to Biden) here. But, when the Democrat Party began it’s metamorphosis into the liberal quagmire it has become, our southern Democrats went for more and more Republicans in national elections. Back in the ’80s we got our first Republican governor ever in our history. That went back and forth every four to eight years though. Our last Democrat governor is at the DNC now. He has been temporarily furloughed from Federal Prison and plans to ask 0bama for a full pardon. Then he is report back to the prison. Don Siegelman was not attacked by local Republicans, he was charged by the federal government with several counts of conspiracy under the RICO Act. One of his fellow conspirators is Richard Scrushy, who all around here joke about being Siegelman’s cell mate. Anyway, I guess most will never change owing to the history here. But, many young voters are registering as Republicans. Back in ’71 when I registered I wish I had. Not to worry, I registered as an Independent, and have never voted for a Democrat ever. I have since re-registered as a Republican, but only because there is no true Conservative Party.
  
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- Rillobymorning
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:27am
  You’re so right Grams. I know many that are church going family members and co-workers who pull the lever “D” just because it’s been done in their families for generations. they’re not researchers, readers or searchers of truth, they just know their families have been Democrats for many years and that’s what your supposed to do. It’s sad really, as they too have granchildren who will certainly be affected by the growing deficit and may never know what we knew as “The American Dream”.
  
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- JoMo
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:57am
  Agreed, Grams! I am so fed up with those who profess to be Catholic and still insist on supporting Obummer, who is the most anti God pres we’ve ever had.
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:01am
This subject wouldn’t need to be broached, if it weren’t for the fact that large numbers of citizens don’t know the difference between independence and slavery.

The Constitution, and specifically the Bill of Rights, enumerate the freedoms one is BORN with along with their responsibility, and LIMITS the role of government in our daily lives.

The REASON why government is so entrenched and so emboldened to make such dangerous statements such as “you BELONG to government” is because the ignorant get too wrapped up in sound bites and/or are too lazy to research what we Conservatives espouse. They find it much easier to contradict what we say and warn about than to face facts which contradict what they hear or, unfortunately, have been taught. They find it easier to “belong” with a mob than to belong with a group castigated by the mob, even when the mob is obviously wrong.

Call it the “deer in the headlights” equivalent to reasoned thought and expression.

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Nepenthe
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:58am
No, Lincoln would not have been booed, since that likely would have resulted in the arrest of many people. At least, if Lincoln was in charge, that would be result, given that he had no problems with suspending civil liberties during a time of war.

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- woodyee
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:03am
  That mob would have had no problem crucifying Jesus had he made an sudden appearance on stage.
  
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- Nepenthe
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:13am
  That is true of the leadership of both major parties. They, like the religous leaders of the New Testament, will do whatever they need to to retain power and control over those under them.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:16am
  Another , both party’s dork
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:46am
  WOODYE…is right.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:57am
Lincoln would have been jeered and booed and heckled; those who deny and scorn God and His people will be brought to account sooner than they expect.

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Gonzo
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:49am
After watching them boo God, I don’t think anyone is immune to the left’s anger.

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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:57am
  good point, it’s all down hill from there towards making anyone a viable target.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:38am
  GONZO . . . Better think twice about voting for a Mormon then, because that would be the ultimate insult to God. That’s why THE NUGE!! is gonna vote for Chuck Norris.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:04pm
  Gosh Wango, thanks for the theological advice. You’re my go-to guy on religion. Face palm.
  
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cloudsofwar
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:46am
we all belong to GOV ???? the dems are twisted.

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DWilliams08
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:35am
Would Lincoln have been booed at the 1860 DNC? Probably.

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louise
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:30am
It seems to me that the best solution for a country which veered off course decades ago would go back to what worked.
The Constitution.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:42am
  I can get on board with that Louise.
  
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- Nepenthe
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:59am
  Exactly. It is nice to know that you will also be voting for Gary Johnson, since neither Republicans nor Democrats share your view.
  
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101stIraqVet
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:28am
Anyone that isn’t a freak of nature would be booed at the DNC. These clowns don’t speak for the true America, they speak for Karl Marx’s wet dream Amerika.

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- Gregb
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:41am
  AMEN!
  I just wish that there would be another football game tonight. I can’t stomach watching the liars and thieves at the DNC
  
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- bastone
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 9:17am
  obviously you never got past e-2
  
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- 101stIraqVet
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 3:30pm
  Made E5 in three years, and it’s spelled B-A-S-T-O-G-N-E genius.
  
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huey6367
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:26am
I believe that there will be a major outfall of the Democratic party in the near future. Their hate and intollerance will cuse them to implode not mention, what I believe, will be an economic upswing from the the Romney administration the likes this country has not seen in sometime.

Only then, and not to the die hard Dems, will people begin to see how the Dems destroy this country and its people.

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marybethelizabeth
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:25am
It’s hard not to agree that Mr. Beck is a poseur.

This is all just double speak.

First Mr. Beck argues that the country was founded on Judea-Christian religious principles.

Now he argues that when governments make decisions based on those principles they are in error.

Mr. Beck is just talking to talk.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:37am
  Is POSEUR french for poser?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:30am
  MARYBETH, Just where did you hear what you claim to have heard in that video. I just went back and watched it again twice. No such wording in there. You are making up your own double speak.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:14am
  When government endorses a religion, morality actually suffers. European countries that have subsidized churches in the past have at best a 30% belief in God rate.
  
  It’s not up to the government to hold the people accountable. That’s the people’s job.
  
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HKS
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:22am
Democrats are godless people, This election is simple, either you join them or you don’t.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:21am
Hopefully, Lincoln would have been Booed at both conventions….

“I will say than that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that here is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
-Abraham Lincoln (in a debate with Stephen Douglass on September 18, 1858)

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- louise
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:34am
  Soy…it is stunning that people who claim to love history, will pretend that these words were never spoken by Lincoln.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:47am
  Remember Lincoln freed the slaves,they told us that in public schools so it must be true.
  Lincoln could’ve spoken those words to the KKK where it would have been appreciated.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:02am
  Abe Lincoln 1855
  “You inquire where I now stand. This is a disputed point. I think I am a Whig: but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an Abolitionist. When I was at Washington I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times: and I never heard of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a No-Knothing, that is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring “All men are created equal”. We now practically read it, “All men are created equal except negroes.”, When the No- nothings get control it will read, “All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this I shall prefer emigrating to some country they make no pretense of loving liberty.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:31am
  The Union Army needed more bodies to put into the meat grinder. No mystery why Lincoln “freed” the slaves in the southern states.
  
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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Dismayed Vet,
  
  I dispute your assumptions about the union army. If you puts facts before fantasy you’ll quickly discover the ranks were filled with volunteers who felt it their person obligation to combat the nation treason being perpetuated by the south’s succession. My great (x2) grandfather William Case, joined the Michigan militia, 21st regiment Co. K. in Aug of 1862. He left his farm, his wife and two sons. ultimately engaging in the “march to the sea” as one of “Sherman bummers” bringing the Civil war to it’s end.
  
  Perhaps back then when history was not so varnished he understood this nation was worth fighting for. That a debt was owed to his forefathers and what they had done as Americans before him.
  
  Perhaps he looked to our oldest know relative, Edward Doty, (1599) signer of the Mayflower compact (1620) setting forth a governance pact, the likes of which the world had never known. As well as creating the only place on earth men were to free to address God as they saw fit.
  
  President Lincolns emancipation order was a war tactic against the south to impede it’s ability to produce materials The order was issued Jan 1 1863. My Family didn’t simply jump into a meat grinder at the urging of a POTU. They did so because it was both the difficult and the right thing to do at the time.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:15am
The guy’s that murdered Marylin Monroe, the infamous leaders of the Kennedy Gang, John , Bobby and Teddy couldn’t be DEMOCRAT’S now. They are TOO Catholic.

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