Our 2nd Civil War Over Slavery

An estimated 620,000 died in the Civil War, the bloodiest in our history

Slavery: “practice of forced labor and restricted liberty.” (Cornell Law School).

This time, the Civil War will not begin in Fort Sumter, South Carolina, where Confederate guns around Charleston Harbor opened fire in 1861 on the U.S. Navy. This time, the secession has already started, in blue places like Boston, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, defying President Trump’s efforts to roll back mandates, regulations, woke policies and all manner of government coercion, a form of slavery.

Nowhere is the new Mason-Dixon Line more apparent than in the vaccine wars. The Biden administration put us in chains — choking off our speech, forcing our compliance to take the jab and wear a face napkin, compelling grandparents to die alone and school children to face angst and learning setbacks from social distancing.

Now, rejecting new CDC rules, the Pacific Northwest states are creating their own mandates, requiring vaccines, in open defiance of new federal policy. Meanwhile, they are attacking God, and the Declaration of Independence, and the power of prayer.

In the run up to the first Civil War, blood was spilled on the Senate floor. Rep. Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Dem from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts Republican and abolitionist, almost killing him. So far, this time the Senate floor has remained clean. But it feels like we’re getting close.

In Washington, this week RFK Jr. offered a master class against corrupt senators — most of whom had taken Big Buckets of Big Money from Big Pharma. Re vaccines: “We were lied to about everything.” Re autism and vaccines: The CDC did a study linking autism to vaccines but “destroyed” the data. Re the hepatitis B vaccine for babies: “The risk profile for babies” before the vax: “one in seven million.”

Pols, part of an organized campaign to get RFK Jr. fired, flailed. Dem Sen Ron Wyden of Oregon accused the HHS secretary of just seeking money and fame. This from a senator who has accepted $1.5m in donations from Big Pharma.

RFK Jr.’s comeback: “Senator, you have sat in that chair for 25 years while the chronic disease in our children went up to 76% and you said nothing! You never asked the question why. It's not because I came in. We're going to end it.”

In Florida, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo ended all childhood vaccine mandates in his state, ranting against those who would enslave people by robbing them of free will.

“Every last vaccine is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell you what to put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and God. Pretty much every state has mandates, but it’s wrong.”

As the Coffee & Covid blog noted, “Mandates and slavery both rely on the unspoken premise that individuals are instruments of society rather than sovereign beings.” From the party of “my body, my choice” comes now, well, silence.

For months now, we have watched Democrats embrace things that common sense Americans oppose: criminals, cashless bail, boys in girls sports, illegal immigrants, racism toward whites, Jew hatred, vaccine mandates, unlimited abortions and chemicals in our Cheerios. After a school shooting last week that killed two innocent children and left others still struggling to recover, prominent Dems like Jen Psaki mocked us for our prayers. As each of these 80/20 issues wandered into the public square, you may have wondered, as I did, is this really the hill Dems want to die on?

This week Democrat senator Tim Kaine of Virginia — Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016, who might have served a heartbeat away from the presidency — called it “extremely troubling” that the Declaration of Independence, adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, insisted our rights derived not from government but from God.

Thomas Jefferson wrote:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Ben Frankin, with John Adams at his side, looks at Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence

There are no more important words written in American history. But Tim Kaine said:

“The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the creator is extremely troubling,” he said.

Kaine, a self-professed Catholic who favors full-term abortion, compared our most admired foundational document to that of the brutal Iranian regime. “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, they come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes,” he said. “So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”

As they did in 1861, Dems have embraced slavery to defy the federal government. As one wag on X put it: “249 years Virginia went from Thomas Jefferson to this?”

Bishop Robert Barron stood up for Jefferson, and God.

“It just strikes me as extraordinary that a major American politician wouldn’t understand this really elemental part of our system,” Bishop Barron continued. “God help us. I mean that literally. God help us, if we say our rights are coming to us from the government. That gives the government, indeed, God-like power. This is not pious boilerplate; it’s basic democracy. We are a nation under God.”

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called for Kaine’s removal from office.

This is a remarkable moment from Tim Kaine. He just announced that the core foundational principle of our country, affirmed in the Declaration of Independence, is "extremely troubling" and "theocratic." He should be immediately removed from office. Anyone who rejects our nation's foundational principles is obviously not fit to serve.

Abraham Lincoln led a Civil War to prove that secession is unconstitutional — and to free the slaves. With Bobby Kennedy at his side, Donald Trump may soon have a similar challenge. As Bishop Barron said, “God help us. I mean that literally.”