I’ve been struggling for some time in deciding if it’s a conspiracy and I just can’t tell. It’s like trying to decide if the sun on the back of George Washington’s armchair is rising or setting.
Some folks, I think, are just misguided. All we can do is provide education as best we can then hope for the best.
The civil war, for instance, was not about slavery.
loc.gov/teachers/newsevents … nFirst.pdf
[i]First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have
no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” [/i]
Plus:
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It held that “a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves”,[2][3] whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[4][5] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
So the South had Lincoln’s word plus the Courts decision and therefore had no grounds to attack based on any perceived threat to slavery. The notion is ridiculous.
But they did anyway on April 12th 1861 at Ft Sumter in an effort to kick the US Army off of southern ground. Why?
archive.org/stream/TheMoneyMast … s_djvu.txt (keyword search ‘tariffs’ to find it)
[i]So what was the Civil War all about? There were many factors at play. Northern industrialists had used protective tariffs to
prevent their southern states from buying cheaper European goods. Europe retaliated by stopping cotton imports from the
South. The Southern states were in a financial bind. They were forced to pay more for most of the necessities of life while
their income from cotton exports plummeted. The South grew increasingly angry.
But there were other factors at work. The Money Changers were still stung by America’s withdrawal from their control 25
years earlier. Since then, America’s wildcat economy, despite the presence of fractional reserve banking with its attendant
booms and busts, had made the nation rich - a bad example for the rest the world.
The central bankers now saw an opportunity to use the North/South divisions to split the rich new nation - to divide and
conquer by war. Was this just some sort of wild conspiracy theory? Well, let’s look at what a well placed observer of the scene
had to say at time.
This was Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, the man who united the German states in 1871. A few years later, in
1876, he is quoted as saying:
“It is not to be doubted, I know of absolute certainty,” Bismarck declared, "that the division of the United States into two
federations of equal power was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were
afraid that the United States, if they remained as one block and were to develop as one nation, would attain economic and
financial independence, which would upset the capitalist domination of Europe over the world. "
Within months after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, the central bankers loaned Napoleon III of France (the nephew
of the Waterloo Napoleon) 210 million francs to seize Mexico and station troops along the southern border of the U.S., taking
advantage of the Civil War to violate the Monroe Doctrine and return Mexico to colonial rule.
No matter what the outcome of the Civil War, it was hoped that a war-weakened America, heavily indebted to the Money
Changers, would open up Central and South America once again to European colonization and domination - the very thing
America’s Monroe Doctrine had forbade in 1823. [/i]
What the statues being torn down really represent is not slavery, but independence, individuality, identity. The whole thing has been perverted by a veil of slavery to provoke people into giving up their liberties. Is it conspiracy? Could be or it could be a combination of that and ignorance because, for a long time, I thought the war was about slavery too. That’s what they teach in school.