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An Open Letter to Mark Levin Dear Sir: I do not write a personal letter to you because I have learned from experience that people like you do not deign to reply to anyone who calls your particular beliefs into question. But let me set the record straight from the beginning: I am a true (paleo) conservative. I’m not a libertarian because I do believe that there are areas in the society in which the government should—and indeed must—be active. I wholeheartedly support Jefferson’s principle that the government exists to protect the People which, frankly, many libertarians would deny having adopted a sort of utilitarian survival of the fittest moral ethic. That being said, I am completely frustrated by “good conservatives” such as yourself and others such as Mr. Beck and Mr. O’Reilly who worship at the altar of Lincoln! Good God, sir! What we have today is nothing more—or less—than the culmination of that which Lincoln began in his own political career and brought to fruition through bloody, unconstitutional, treasonous and criminal war waged against an entire population of what he said he considered to be his “own people.” How anyone who loves liberty and hates the left can embrace Lincoln is beyond the comprehension of any intelligent, rational and knowledgeable individual! Now, I understand that most people haven’t any idea of who or what Lincoln actually was. They are familiar only with the myth created even as he lay dying. But that need no longer be the case. A great deal of information about the man—much of it in his own words—is now known and disseminated where such permitted, that is. In some instances, people (such as myself) have acquired that knowledge and abandoned fantasy for fact. Others acknowledge these unpleasant facts but choose to remain wedded to the myth. One author admitted that Lincoln was a despot, but assured his readers that he was a “benevolent despot.” Such people prove not their ignorance, but their stupidity. And then there are those who don’t want to know the truth. These remind me of my late mother’s response in any debate, “….don’t confuse me with facts.” One does not need to be either stupid or ignorant when it comes to having to acknowledge and then embrace that which destroys cherished beliefs. One needs only to be willing to compromise one’s honesty. In this matter, we see the fall of the Pharisees who embraced their understanding of Divine Law in the face of the Divine Himself—and chose those beliefs over Truth. I will not try to inform you about Lincoln in this letter; that is a great undertaking. However, I can recommend Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo whose books on Lincoln are without peer and totally incontrovertible. Nonetheless, I will leave you with two things that Lincoln himself wrote when he was tasked about his actions being detrimental to the Founding principles—which you say that you embrace—and the Constitution—which you also embrace. In both of these instances, he is obvious in his rejection of both for the sake of, as he says, “saving the country.” Interestingly enough, in most of his other writings on the crises of the day, Lincoln speaks about saving, not the country or the “union,” but the government! Now, you must admit that these things are not coterminous! Lincoln’s loyalty was not to the United States per se, but to an all powerful central government which he intended to create, rule and maintain at any cost! Today we are paying the ultimate price of his success. Lincoln in a letter to Albert G. Hodges on April 4th, 1864: “Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.” Lincoln in his December 1st, 1862 Annual Message to Congress speaks of the Constitution as “…dogmas of a quiet past” and declares that to “save our country” the people must “disenthrall ourselves,” which, in effect, means that the yoke of constitutional limitations on the central government must be cast off, something which Lincoln certainly did: “The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Valerie Protopapas Huntington Station, New York
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:45:04 +0000

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