THIS DAY IN HISTORY

ON THIS DAY IN 1863, PRESIDENT LINCOLN GAVE AN ORDER THAT AMOUNTED TO "AN EYE FOR AN EYE" TO THE UNION TROOPS. HIS ORDER WAS," TO SHOOT ONE REBEL PRISONER FOR EVERY BLACK PRISONER THAT WAS SHOT". RATHER RADICAL FOR TODAYS PACIFYING AMERICANS WHO "CRY FOUL AND CRIME COMMITED" WHEN TERRORIST PRISONERS ARE TREATED "INHUMANELY". SUCH THINGS A THREATENING PRISONERS WITH DOGS, SUBJECTING THEM TO EXTREME TEMPERATURE CHANGES AND SEXUAL EMBARASSMENT PALE IN COMPARISON WITH THE ORDER TO APPLY RETIBUTION IN THE FORM OF SHOOTING TO KILL PRISONERS. BUT THEN AT THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR ALL NORTHERN PAPERS WERE ON THE SIDE OF THE PRESIDENT! A LITTLE KNOWN FACT IS THAT MARSHALL LAW WAS CALLED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR THE CITY OF CHICAGO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIVIL WAR. ALL CIVIL RIGHTS WERE WITHDRAWN FOR CHICAGO PEOPLKE, AND A CERFEW INSTITUTED FOR THE DURATION. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HARSH "DICTATORIAL POWER".YET THERE WAS NO UNDERCURRENT IN THE PRESS OR CONGRESS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF LINCOLN AS WE FREQUENTLY HEAR FROM LEFTISTS TODAY. PATRIOTISM WOULD NOT TOLERATE SUCH ACTIONS DURING WAR. A WELL KNOWN FACT, HOWEVER, IS THAT WE WON THE CIVIL WAR AND THE SLAVES WERE FREED. IF ONLY PEOPLE ON THE LEFT COULD PUT ASIDE THEIR SELFISH INTERESTS AND SUPPORT THE WINNING OF AN UNDECLARED THIRD WORLD WAR AGAINST RADICAL ISLAM!
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A SPECIAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MR. THOMAS SOWELL ON HIS BIRTHDAY. A MAN WHO IS A GREAT AND INSIGHTFUL AMERICAN.