Time: Sun Mar 02 18:38:23 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA24330; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:16:42 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 18:11:10 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Robert LeFevre on the Civil War (fwd) >>>From "The Fundamentals of Liberty", by the great >>libertarian teacher Robert LeFevre: >> >> >>pp. 351-2 >> >> >>At Lexington, and in the ensuing years of battle between the American >>colonies and their government, the concepts of the rights of man >>triumphed. That event signaled the belief that individual human beings >>could be right and their government could be wrong. The Northern victory >>in the Civil War turned back the clock. It reaffirmed the concept that >>the government is always right and anyone who opposes it is wrong. >> >>A second shot was heard around the world. The message of this second >>explosion was the opposite of the message conveyed in the first. America >>was tarnished. We were now to be a governed people, not a free people. >> >>Prior to the Northern victory, Americans were accustomed to boast of >>their great country because the government was small and tractable and >>they were free. Today, the boast is that we have a marvelous government >>that does almost everything for us, assumes our own responsibilities, >>looks after us unceasingly, and is concerned in ways we can't even yet >>conceive. >> >>But historians are prone to write their views from the position of the >>throne room. And the side that controls the propaganda has it within its >>power to make it appear that every victory is a victory for virtue. It >>is not always so. >> >> >>-- Robert Lefevre (1911-1986) ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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