[lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War

[James Heartfield]

>>> You really have to wonder how much a man values black people when
>>> he says
>>> that the Civil War marked a loss of liberty. I've spent a lot of
>>> time
>>> following the right and I still find that remark shocking.
>>>
>>> Doug

I agree. It is shocking. As if it was 1865, not 2012. On the news that 
Lincoln had been assassinated, the Manchester Guardian said ‘of his rule, we 
can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of 
constitutional right and human liberty’ (27 April 1865).