GOOD OL' BOY FROM ATLANTA PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS AGAIN WRITES THAT THE US CIVIL WAR WAS NOT ABOUT SLAVERY

Despite Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens stating in his sick, white supremacist Cornerstone speech that the American Civil War, from the Confederate point of view, was about slavery, and that the first seven states who seceded explicitly stated that they seceded and started the war because of slavery, Paul Craig Roberts (who was born in Atlanta, Georgia) cites an African-American intellectual Walter E Williams who claims that the civil war was about money.

Williams wrote in the Sun Herald on 21st July:

Why didn't Lincoln share the same feelings about Southern secession? Following the money might help with an answer. Throughout most of our nation's history, the only sources of federal revenue were excise taxes and tariffs. During the 1850s, tariffs amounted to 90 percent of federal revenue. Southern ports paid 75 percent of tariffs in 1859. What "responsible" politician would let that much revenue go?

[source : WALTER E. WILLIAMS: War of 1861 wasn't really a Civil War, Sun Herald, http://www.sunherald.com/2015/07/21/6331277_walter-e-williams-war-of-1861.html?rh=1, 21st July 2015]

The facts are that, as laid out clearly in Treason in America by Anton Chaitkin, the British engineered the war using slavery: the North was incited to fight against slavery; the South was incited to fight for slavery. Lincoln may well not have been the anti-slavery hero he has been made out to be, not before the war started anyway. But Lincoln preserved the Union against this intrigue by the British.

And after the war he cunningly destroyed slavery in the USA, as shown in Spielberg's film Lincoln.

Was that a bad thing Lincoln did? To destroy slavery in the USA? I don't think so.

But for that he was assassinated by a British nest of spies operating out of Canada.

And for assisting Lincoln during the civil war the British began intrigue against Russia, resulting in the Bolshevik Revolution and the murder of the Romanovs.

But this is what Libertarianism can do to you: Williams is an African-American; Williams is also a Libertarian; yet he hates Lincoln for freeing the slaves!!

Can you get your head around that?

Because I can't.

So a word of advice: beware Libertarianism. You end up loving President Andrew Jackson and hating Lincoln for destroying slavery in the USA.