Sunday, November 24, 2013

Secret Police and Military Prisons—Edwin Stanton Sets the Precedent

Via Billy

 
prison hoods worn by conspirators of Lincoln’s assassination

About five years ago now there was a big flap over Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi prison where American soldiers practiced various forms of torture, both emotional and physical, on various Iraqi prisoners. It was all a part of George Bush’s “experiment” in “democracy” in Iraq. Some people were shocked when they read about this. They wondered how Americans could do such things—after all, aren’t we the moral leadership of the world? Sorry to say we are not. With what we have elected to the presidency for the last four or five terms, how can we claim any kind of moral leadership anywhere? You’d be surprised, but I have had Christians to defend torturing terrorists to me. They seem to feel that because they are terrorists, or have been accused of being terrorists, that to torture them is okay.

My response to this is that, as Christians, if we engage in this sort of thing then we are no better than they are. I have a hard time believing that the Lord Jesus would endorse torture.

But is the concept of torture, secret police and military prisons something new in our day and age in America? Again, sorry to say it isn’t. Americans have been partaking of torture and the secret police syndrome, in one form or another at least since the advent of the Lincoln administration. Mr. Lincoln and his associated seem to have had a paranoid fear of disloyalty to the federal government (most dictators have this) to the point where thousands upon thousands of Northern civilians were arrested and hauled off to prisons on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicion or some grumpy neighbor’s hearsay accusation.

4 comments:

  1. Who said the people who engaged in Abu Graib were Christians? I don't recall any of them claiming to be Christian. I do remember Obama saying we were not a Christian Nation. As for evidence of Christianity I see very little in the U.S. "You shall know them by their light". I am fairly sure the left has removed all Christianity from our government, why are we surprised when it does evil? We have removed Christianity from schools and yet we moan and blame God when evil is perpetrated on school children. Some of these evil people claim to be Christian when they are seeking mercy for themselves, but once again "You shall know them by their light", if their light is darkness they are not Christian, regardless of what they claim. As for Lincoln, he is beyond our punishment, God will decide his fate.

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  2. Lincoln was the first unelected dictator in our history, sadly not the last. The federal military dictatorship in DC has placed THEIR choice in the white house since 1860. Only now at the end of prosperity and the beginnings of a Marxist slave state are the sheeple starting to notice. Maybe they will even do something other than mill around and bleet their outrage----Ray

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    1. Maybe they will even do something other than mill around and bleet their outrage-

      A big maybe, but you never know.

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  3. As for Lincoln, he is beyond our punishment,

    Death By 1,000 Cuts would work for me.

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