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Posts from AE, Medford, Oregon

AE, Medford, OregonAE, Medford, Oregon
AE, Medford, Oregon

This quote is entirely OUT of context. Its use here demonstrates only how easy it can be to lie by omission and by couching that omission within a new and different context. When one is asked to stand up in court and affirm or swear that they will tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing BUT the truth, this is why those precise legal phrases are used. Because by removing a statement from its context, we can rob it of its original meaning; and by the placing it in a very different light, we can complete the task of misleading those who ought and would like to know better down a different and darker path. Judges and attorneys are vigilant for such trickery because they can literally turn day into night, and as easily condemn the just as acquit the damnable. And if permitted without objection, these misrepresentations would sway the lay people who sit on juries more easily even than outright lies. Let anyone who wishes to be enlightened on Lincoln, his true genius, and the full facts of the nation's situation at that time to download and read the ENTIRETY of Lincoln's famous Peoria speech Oct. 16, 1854. Lincoln came of age in Illinois, but he was first a son of Kentucky, uniquely prepared by life and learning to comprehend the central issue of his day. Fair warning, this is not a sound bite for an ignorant age, it is an evening's read. But it left such an impression upon all those present even though Douglas, who spoke first, had been going on for THREE HOURS before him that it immediately catapulted Lincoln to national attention. If you've read what others have misconstrued from the excerpt above, why not let the great man speak to you directly? http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/peoriaspeech.htm

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