Em Recordando Lincoln, Por JOSÉ MANUEL FERNANDES
"Depois de lembrar que tanto Bush como Kerry convergem "em que temos de acabar o que começámos no Iraque", Lieberman recorda as palavras de um outro Presidente num outro momento difícil da história do país: "Tenhamos fé em que o que está certo tem muita força, e em que essa fé nos guiará no cumprimento do novo dever tal como o entendemos".
Claro que o que Lincoln demonstrou foi que o que tem muita "força" transforma-se em "certo", o que faz com que invocar a fé para o exercício dessa força uma demagogia e blasfémia (de que Bush também não esteve livre) - uma tragédia dos homens convencidos que têm uma missão a cumprir pelo exercício da violência organizada para impor um "Bem".
E depois:
"Esse Presidente chamava-se Abraham Lincoln e também desencadeou uma guerra em nome da liberdade, recusando a uma parte do seu país um direito que hoje muitos tomam por sagrado: o direito à autodeterminação e à secessão.""
Lincoln só em "nome" fez uma guerra em nome da "liberdade". Lincoln não era um abolicionista, uma das suas soluções era a expulsão para a Libéria (Monrovia, remember?). O que Lincoln defendeu foi a União e o Federalismo pela força.
Um exemplo:
"These statements of Lincoln are reported, among other places, in C. Vann Woodward’s The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Woodward (who taught history at Yale) relates that in 1858, Lincoln stated that:
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [the crowd applauds] – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the black and white races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. "
Entre os mimos de Lincoln, tiveram:
- o serviço militar obrigatório, recrutando mesmo os emigrantes acabados de chegar ao novo mundo.
- fechou jornais e prendeu sem julgamento toda a oposição à sua guerra contra Estados soberanos - incluindo Juizes - nas palavras ed Lincoln: "Arrest of Traitors and Suspension of Habeas Corpus."
Outros factos curiosos é que o Direito de Secessão era tão implícito (como não pode deixar de ser no Federalismo) que nos primeiros anos, foi o Norte que quis separar-se do Sul:
"Oddly enough, it was the New England Federalists that had first threatened to dissolve the Union because of an intense hatred of Southern aristocracy. Beginning with the election of Jefferson to the Presidency, an intense battle over individual morality, immigration, trade restrictions, and regional principles sparked a division between the Puritan Northeast and a more freewheeling and influential South. In order to eliminate all political ties, the Northeasterners tried in vain to break the bonds of Union, and the movement lasted until the failed Secessionist Convention in 1814, as the War of 1812 came to a close."
Mas vamos a mais:
Myth #1: Lincoln invaded the South to free the slaves. Ending slavery and racial injustice is not why the North invaded.
As Lincoln wrote to Horace Greeley on Aug. 22, 1862: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it"
Myth #2: Lincoln's war saved the Union.
The war may have saved the Union geographically, but it destroyed it philosophically by destroying its voluntary nature. In the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, the states described themselves as "free and independent." They delegated certain powers to the federal government they had created as their agent but retained sovereignty for themselves.~
Myth #3: Lincoln championed equality and natural rights.
"...In Springfield, Ill., on July 17, 1858, Lincoln said, "What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races." On Sept. 18, 1858, in Charleston, Ill., he said: "I will to the very last stand by the law of this state, which forbids the marrying of white people with Negroes."
Myth #4: Lincoln was a defender of the Constitution
Under Lincoln." Lincoln unconstitutionally suspended the writ of habeas corpus and had the military arrest tens of thousands of Northern political opponents, including dozens of newspaper editors and owners. Some 300 newspapers were shut down and all telegraph communication was censored. (...) Lincoln's apologists say he had "to destroy the Constitution in order to save it."
Myth #5: Lincoln was a "great humanitarian" who had "malice toward none."
This is inconsistent with the fact that Lincoln micromanaged the waging of war on civilians, including the burning of entire towns populated only by civilians; massive looting and plundering; rape; and the execution of civilians (See Mark Grimsley, "The Hard Hand of War").
Myth #6: War was necessary to end slavery.
"During the 19th century, dozens of countries, including the British and Spanish empires, ended slavery peacefully through compensated emancipation. Among such countries were Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all of Central America, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, the French and Danish colonies, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. (Lincoln did propose compensated emancipation for the border states, but coupled his proposal with deportation of any freed slaves. He failed to see it through, however). Only in America was war associated with emancipation.(...)"
Conclusão:
José Manuel Fernandes expõe a face do centralismo democrático do federalismo, em nome da liberdade: o império da liberdade e o fim dos Estados-Nação, essas entidades irracionais com a mania de fazerem "coisas" que dificultam um mundo iluminado.
Recusar qualquer tratado Constitucional na Europa é preciso. Ou daqui a uns anos temos um exército "federal" a invadir Portugal quando uma boa razão ditar a decisão de sair - foi o que aconteceu na "Land of the Free".
Claro que para muitos , isso não aquece nem arrefece, o desejo de um "pai", de uma entidade "externa", de um supra-poder que crie uma "ordem", é maior que a sua ocasional retórica de self-government, são os ideológos sem pátria nem deus. Acreditam conseguir desenhar uma tal entidade exógena, que tenha a força e a razão para impor a paz e a liberdade, mas "quem guarda os guardas"?
Mas como dizia o Britânico e Liberal Lord Acton ao Confederado Robert E. Lee (a quem tinha sido oferecido o comando das tropas do Norte, mas ao qual respondeu: "I love de Union, I love Virginia more" e a quem Churchill prestou o maior dos tributos):
"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy (...)Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."
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