UPDATED 9 January 2016 to add image, preface and paragraph extracts.
As a high school honors student at the Singapore American School, I wrote a paper on the causes of the US Civil War and made the same mistake most adults make today: I thought it was about slavery and I never realized that a War of Secession is not the same as a Civil War. A War of Secession seeks to restore the independence that was compromised to voluntarily join a Union. A Civil War is a war for dominance over the whole. I now understand that the “Civil War” was a bankers war, a war to give the North the right to occupy and loot the South, a war where the only long-term winners were the banks. It was not about slavery — Lincoln “emancipated” only the slaves in the South, not in the North and West, and he did so “with grave reluctance.” In some ways the Civil War — despite the onerous nature of slavery at its foundation — was a cultural war, between the agrarian communities of the south and the industrial non-communities of the north. Today the United STATES of America is beginning to break up — calls for a Constitutional Convention are mounting, e.g. from the Governor of Texas as well as Mark Levin, while secessionists in Hawaii, Vermont, Texas, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California continue to labor away legally and ethically. There is also the matter of federal corruption, federal war-wongering, federal taxation of STATE citizens, and federal ownership of land. Absent unifying leadership able to restore integrity to how we elect and govern on behalf of the STATES, I anticipate a break-up of the United STATES of America. Below are a few books I have reviewed, with one paragraph from each review brought forward, click on the title to read the entire review.
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