Return of the Confederacy – Great more wackjobs!

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There’s a place in the Wingnut universe where the rights of states to secede is still asserted, the New Deal is characterized as unconstitutional, and desegregation is considered tyranny imposed by the federal government.

They’re not fans of the federal highway system or health-care legislation either.

Meet the Tenthers—a group of “Tenth Amendment activists” whose ranks are rising in the Obama era. They are holding a national summit today in Atlanta under the auspices of the Tenth Amendment Center, featuring speakers such as former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice (and current gubernatorial candidate) Roy Moore and the engaging Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano.

“I consider Abraham Lincoln an enemy of the Constitution.”

On the heels of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and CPAC this past weekend in Washington, the Tenther convention rounds out February’s self-styled Obama Resistance conferences.

To those needing a constitutional refresher course, the Tenth Amendment states that powers not explicitly given to the federal government are reserved to the states. To be sure, the modern-day Tenth Amendment advocates stated their opposition to the growth of government under George W. Bush as well—but like the Tea Party protests, they only started taking to the streets with a Democrat in the White House.

The Ron Paul-ite organization Campaign for Liberty sponsored several seminars on the subject during CPAC that were illuminating for the uninitiated.

The speaker at “Friend or Foe? Abraham Lincoln on Liberty,” Thomas DiLorenzo, made his intentions clear when he said “I consider Abraham Lincoln an enemy of the Constitution” to a round of applause. He’s offered book-length attacks on America’s first Republican president, now characterized as the original progressive despot because of his violations of the Tenth Amendment, and explications of how Confederate President Jefferson Davis “championed states’ rights in defense of liberty”—not slavery.

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Return of the Confederacy – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.