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The Party of Great Moral Frauds

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Publié le 12 juillet 2012
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For the past century and a half the Republican Party has gratuitously labeled itself as "The Party of Great Moral Ideas." The Party of Great Moral Frauds is more like it. The party began as the party of mercantilism, corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, constitutional subterfuge, central banking, and imperialism. Its 1860 presidential platform promised not to disturb Southern slavery; its first president supported the Fugitive Slave Act and the proposed "Corwin Amendment" to the Constitution that would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery; the party committed treason by "levying war upon the states" (the precise definition of treason in the Constitution) and murdering hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens in order to destroy the voluntary union of the states that was established by the founding fathers. It refused to do what Britain, Spain, France, the Dutch, Denmark, Sweden, and the Northern states in the U.S. had done about slavery and end it peacefully. Instead, it used the slaves as pawns in a war that was about consolidating all political power in Washington, D.C. in general, and in the hands of the Republican Party in particular.

Three months after the War to Prevent Southern Independence ended the Republican Party commenced a twenty-five year war of genocide against the Plains Indians, killing as many as 60,000 of them, including thousands of women and children, and putting the rest in concentration camps. It did this, according to General Sherman who orchestrated this horribly immoral crusade, to "make way for the railroads" that were being heavily subsidized by the Republican Party. It also plundered the conquered South with exorbitant taxes and the legalized theft of vast tracts of property by party hacks for a decade after the war (so-called "reconstruction"), while doing virtually nothing for the freed slaves. It did nothing while as many as 1 million former slaves died of disease shortly after the war in the worst public health disaster in American history.

The Grant administrations were most known for the colossal corruption associated with the building of the government-subsidized transcontinental railroads that was finally made public during the Credit Mobilier scandal.

The Republican Party has always been about disguising a lust for economic plunder with phony ideas about "freedom," "Christianity," "equality," "civilization,"and other nice-sounding words. The War to Prevent Southern Independence allowed it to finally usher in the Hamiltonian "American System" of high protectionist tariffs for the benefit of Northern manufacturers at the expense of everyone else; a nationalized money supply with its Legal Tender and National Currency Acts; and vast amounts of corporate welfare, starting with the government-subsidized railroad corporations. It created the internal revenue system, invented dozens of new taxes, created the military/industrial complex, ran up historically high levels of debt, and destroyed the founders’ system of federalism or states’ rights as a check on centralized governmental power.

The war of genocide against the Plains Indians was a way of socializing the cost of building the government-subsidized railroads. Having succeeded in eradicating the Indians, the Republican Party next turned to tiny little countries like Cuba and the Philippines to plunder under the usual phony excuse of spreading "freedom" and "the American way" around the globe. The Republican Party claimed to embrace the message of Reverend Josiah Strong’s 1885 book, Our Country, which proclaimed a supposedly sacred American duty to "civilize and Christianize inferior peoples." They portrayed themselves as one big gang of Mother Theresas, selflessly sacrificing endlessly for the benefit of strangers in foreign lands.

A particularly galling example of this spectacular hypocrisy and dishonesty is the conquest of the Kingdom of Hawaii. By the early 1890s American businessmen had been in Hawaii for many years as corporate sugar and pineapple growers. Encouraged by the Republican Party’s aggressive and imperialistic foreign policy, they sought to get the Party to overthrow the government of Hawaii and make it an American province under their political control. They wanted to turn it into the perfect Hamiltonian corporate welfare state, in other words. As described by Gregg Jones in Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream (p. 23):

On January 14, [1893] Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani attempted to curb the power of U.S. commercial interests in the kingdom’s legislature by promulgating a new constitution. A thirteen-member coalition of Americans called the Committee of Safety angrily resisted. Two members, Judge Sanford Dole and businessman Lorrin Thurston, met secretly with U.S. envoy John Stevens and plotted to overthrow the monarchy. The committee’s armed militia promptly seized key buildings, triggering the landing of American troops. The group set up an ad hoc government headed by Dole . . .

The "Committee of Safety" employed a paramilitary organization called the "Honolulu Rifles" who were allied with its puppet political party in Hawaii known as the "Missionary Party." (Sanford Dole was the son of New England Yankee missionaries who migrated to Hawaii from Maine). The Honolulu Rifles forced the king of Hawaii to sign a new constitution that was known as the "bayonet constitution" because the King was literally threatened with being gutted by bayonets unless he signed the document, "Godfather" style. The new constitution disenfranchised all Asians (considered part of an "inferior race" by the Republican business elite) and most everyone else except for affluent landowners, most of whom were Americans and their business associates. It imposed Sanford Dole as puppet president. His cousin James Dole shortly thereafter founded the Dole Fruit Company which prospers to this day.

But before the Republican Party could get the U.S. Congress and the president to formally annex Hawaii, Democrat Grover Cleveland took office (in March of 1893) and killed their proposal, condemning "the lawless landing of the United States force at Honolulu." Grover Cleveland was the last Jeffersonian president of the United States and the last good Democrat. This, however, led to the political rise of the bloviating idiot and Master Race theorist Theodore Roosevelt (TR), the favorite president of today’s neo-conservatives. "It’s difficult to write a bad book about Theodore Roosevelt," neocon Charles Kessler of the Claremont Institute wrote in that organization’s book review tabloid in 1998. To fellow neocons William Kristol and David Brooks, Kessler wrote approvingly, TR "figures as a patron saint of American nationalism and energetic government."

In October of 1895 TR proclaimed to the Republican Club of Massachusetts that "I feel that it was a crime not only against the United States, but against the white race, that we did not annex Hawaii three years ago" (Jones, p. 24). He said this in response to the complaints made by his close friend and fellow Republican, Henry Cabot Lodge, that the Spanish and British empires had been conquering "all the waste places of the earth" and Americans were missing out on the fun since they were not yet sufficiently imperialistic.

As president, TR perfected the Republican Party’s policy of economic plunder through imperialism disguised by humanitarian rhetoric. He denounced the Jeffersonian-minded advocates of peace as "senile," "idiots," and "unhung traitors" (Green, p. 162). As discussed in Jim Powell’s excellent book, Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt’s Legacy, TR essentially declared the U.S. government to be the world’s policeman; warned against what he called "the menace of peace"; and targeted for war Cuba, Hawaii, Venezuela, China, the Philippines, Panama, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Canada. None of these military interventions or planned interventions had anything to do with national defense. "He asserted that the United States must intervene . . . when a nation failed to behave," wrote Powell. "All the great master races have been fighting races," Teddy Roosevelt the master race theorist proclaimed. It was in this way, writes Powell, that Teddy Roosevelt reinvigorated the "Party of Lincoln." I was Lincoln’s secretary of state William Seward, Powell reminds us, who wanted the U.S. to intervene if not conquer Canada,, Mexico, parts of Asia, the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Culebra, French Guiana, Peurto Rico, and St. Batholomew.

U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler knew what he was talking about when he wrote in his famous monograph, War is a Racket, that "War is a racket. It always has been."

 

 

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Why does 24hGOLD continue in offering politically focused articles instead of articles about gold and silver. The editorial staff (assuming there is one) of 24hGOLD should limit itself to precious metals news and those articles that directly reference precious metals investing. Decide whether you want to be a journalist website or an investment/gold website.
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While I totally agree with a previous comment that both political parties are about equally complicit, clearly the Republicans have been the leading imperialists. It has taken me a few years to fight my way out of fantasy land. I can now read and appreciate an article such as this. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to reviewing your other articles.
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Mr. DiLorenzo, by singling out the Republicans, leaves the Democrats off the hook. Three million dead Vietnamese might have something to say about that. Actually, since we're now officially a kleptocracy, there is no need to continue making any distinctions between the two parties. They're all after our wealth and if you happen to get in the way of their steamroller, you're a goner. As far as Native Americans are concerned, Professor Stannard of the Univ. of Hawaii has written a very informative and well researched book, "American Holocaust". They're some folks who happened to get in the way. Required reading if one is truly interested in how many and how the native population perished.
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I'm starting to feel sorry for Lil' Tommy. His posts are looking more and more like a desperate cry for attention. Once again, Shakespeare said it best:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then it is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
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The Republican Party fostered slavery in the South !!!

What a bunch of crock ! To read this report a naive dumb-ass who knows nothing about United States history (about 85% of U.S. population) whould have to conclude that the Republican Party was found in the South.
The Southern Slave States during the years of slavery and for several decades after the Civil War were controlled by the Democrats.
There were for a long time, many KKK members in the Democrat Party, in both Houses of Congress.

It was the Republicans who passed the 1968 Civil Rights Act. The Democrats, fearing Republican landslide elections for decades afterward, used their willing accomplices in the Network News Media to make the black people think it was the Dems who passed it. The Blacks fell for it and have been voting for the vary Party who enslaved them a hundred years earlier.
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Historical nonsense from DiLorenzo, a member of the Von Mises Institute. The great man's name was unfortunately taken over by Murray Rothbard who labeled himself an anarchist, a believer in no state at all, every man for him or herself. Lew Rockwell is currently the power behind the institute now.

In this context we have DiLorenzo's constant diatribes against Lincoln, Sherman, and the attempt to free the slaves. He believes a state can leave the Union at whim, that no higher authroity or set of principles can limit their actions or institutions -- even the institution of slavery. He is more concerned with state rights, than human ones.

You will never hear from DiLorenzo that General Sherman had the least number of casualities in the war. Unlike Grant, Sherman's goal was the destruction of property, the will to fight. Sherman is the most hated of Union Generals by neo-confederates not because of the numbers of Southern Soldiers he killed, but by the number of cotten bales and plantations he torched, or pigs his men took for food. Whatever Sherman did after the war has nothing to do with his contribution to human freedom during the war. DiLorenzo will mention, over and over, what Sherman did to the indians, but never a peep about what the south did to millions of African-Americans.

As well, DiLorenzo attacks Lincoln for 'starting' the Civil War -- when all free thinkers realize that it is the initiation of force by an entity, man or nation, that determines blame. And it is the South that wins that dubious distinction. Ron Paul has even swallowed that line.

Give a state the right to secede from the Union at whim and that right will naturally and logically result in an increasing of secession -- cities from states, districts from cities, down to the individual level. Anarchists have the delusion that, somehow, individuals will agree on the resolution of conflicts, the imposition of justice. History does not carry that benevolent view of Man. What we will have, if they have their way, is a Hatfield/Mcoy society.

I don't believe DiLorenzo believes in the Constitution at all. The Von Mises Institute has, as one of it's heroes, Lysander Spooner who argued that "the Constitution is unfit to exist." Many of Spooner's articles have appeared in Ron Paul publications.

Again, a key here is that you will never here from DiLorenzo about the horrors of slavery, the rapes, the destruction of families. Check his archive on this site. I think it no coincidence that the Von Mises Institute, headed by Lew Rockwell, supports Ron Paul for President. Ron Paul's newletters in the past were laced with racist articles -- a situtation Ron Paul has admited, but never fully explained.

Currently there is a great rift in those that oppose the status quo and claim a love of individual liberty. We have the Cato Institute and the Libertarians dedicated to individual rights protected by the original intent of the Constitution (later by the limited government ideals of Ayn Rand) -- and the Von Mises Institute, dedicated to 'liberating' individuals from all shackles of authority, even rational ones.
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