Posted on 11/08/2004 12:22:51 PM PST by Moose4
Is this stuff on the main blogs, is it possible to shame the NYT endorsing inciting to assassination.What about Fox News, can't we start a frenzy.
The NYT needs to spend money defending itself. Lots of money. Then it needs to fail altogether.
| CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD |
Abraham LincolnSecond Inaugural AddressSaturday, March 4, 1865AT this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. |
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| On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. | 2 |
| One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." | 3 |
| With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. | 4 |
There were a few. And they got visits from the Secret Service.
Boycott the NYT and spread the word so others will boycott. Hit em in the pockets and they'll feel it - it's as simple as that.
Shut them down for UnAmerican activity. Shut them all down.
Encouraging nuts to step forth...This is criminal...
Anyone who had anything to do with this should be in jail...
tonight
imo
Unlike President Lincoln, who was assasinated at the end of the long and costly "Civil War", should President Bush be taken by a deliberate "act of God", I would think there would be a internal war with mortal consequences for the Party, and the members, that that act eminated from.
Should the enemy Democrat Party wish to drop the gauntlet, let them do so.
They are cowardly, without morals, and killers of future generations of what would have been, and should have been fine, upstanding Americans.
Okay, folks- we've got the First Amendment. But- the NYT has already exercised this freedom by publishing the article, therefore there was no 'prior restraint.' Now that they have published this incitement to violence, they should be held fully accountable under the law.
Secret Service, FBI, anybody out there lurking on FR?
I don't give an (expletive deleted) if it's the NYT- does that mean if a tiny weekly in West Podunk published the same article, they'd get a visit from the Secret Service, but a wealthy and powerful Liberal icon such as the NYT gets a pass? Please, show us that justice in the US operates 'without fear or favor.'
Actually if it could be proven that he means that someone should assinate President Bush he, and CBS, can be brought up on charges. I hope the CIA is looking into this...
Those who have worked energetically to remove God from all
forms of public life are now calling on Him to do their bidding? I'm sure that God must be amused at this.
When you think of the decades the left held power in the House and the Senate, the eight years Clinton held office ending less than four years ago, you have to wonder what is driving these people so madd.
Remember when Nixon capitulated in 1960? The republicans didn't stoop to calling for Kennedy's death. Imagine someone on the right today saying that by the grace of God, Kennedy was shot dead. This is essentially what the New York Times is postulating regarding Bush.
In 87% of the counties in the United States, Bush received the majority of the vote. Even in California, only about five counties went for Kerry.
The dems want to blame everyone else but themselves for their predicament. Sorry, no sale. To win you must appeal to the middle of the road. The left is so far out there that they actually side with Saddam Hussein, the French, dicators and worse. If the left is incapable of understanding why they don't appeal to middle American, it's no wonder some are now openly calling for separatist movements.
The left in the United States is in total meltdown. Their leadership by their very tollerence of what is taking place beneath them, show in terms the right could never demonize them with, how unfit to hold office that they are.
If the left doesn't wake up quick, their leaders especially, and start calling for calm, and labeling those calling for assassinations and separatist movements for what they are (extremist whackjobs), this nation stands to face some serious problems including riots, physical assaults, murders and yes, even assasinations.
Terrorism is born of such things. Is it any wonder the left in our nation has such sympathy of Hussein, and members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban? They seem destined, in fact enamoured with some of the same tactics.
The Democrat leadership should either make a concerted effort to strike this down, or they should resign.
This is not a game. It is not the politics of our founding fathers. I assume they know who I am talking about, but I am no longer convinced.
The shame of American hangs on the neck of the left, as they point the finger at the right. What a sick bunch of idiots.
If you are on the left, it's time to stand apart. It's time to stand up for America, not some twisted lunacy that justifies anything and everything for temporary setbacks.
THe NYT misses the point though. Despite Lincoln's assination there were only 3 Democrats from Lincoln's administration until Wilson's and one of them was Andrew Johnson Lincoln 's VP.
Assination or not the dem's are in trouble.
Reading these words reminds me of a few things;
1) God's will IS done.
2) Reparations for slavery have been paid.
Lincoln was an astute fellow.
Don't worry...they don't believe in God anyway, so why would they expect Him to do anything? Sounds like a flip-flop!
How about a campaign to get folks to cancel their New York Times subscriptions (those who still have them, that is)?
Was the assassination of JFK also an act of God?
Goodness, they want Cheney to be our President. Who knew?
And the other two were the same man --- Grover Cleveland.
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