Wow, I lit a fire with this one, din't I? I have a lot of comments to make, and right now I need to go sleep for working tomorrow, but I just wanted to respond to this comment by my friend gardener; This afternoon I was driving up US1 in miami listening to Glenn Beck and he was talking about how he would not trust any politician today. He was saying how all politicians are corrupt. Now, please allow me permission to edit that statment. Let me say that all politicians are fucked up. George Washington was the first president of the United States of America. Everyone knows this. But George didn't want to take the position, he only took it reluctantly. He has been quoted as saying "Government is evil, a necessary evil." Small government is what this country is founded upon and getting back to that would make us strong once again. I am scared as to where we are going with this new pres.
Government always gets bigger though, the last president who has any truth behind him to not making government that much bigger would be Calvin Coolidge. But in Lincoln's case don't you think it was justified?
i do. though it was technically illegal, i've heard. but i'm not a pundit. i'm merely intrigued this week.
If you mean the issue of Lincoln suspending habeas corpus in Maryland and a few other hot spots, paranoid people like to spread that rumor, but no Lincoln had every right to suspend, as it says in the constitution, article 1, section 9: The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. I think the civil war qualifies as rebellion, but opinions may vary.
