Instigation Quotes
A master of political dirty tricks, Tuck was then working for the Republicans against the election of William Clinton. The web site provided “dirt” and negative material about Clinton, much of which was exaggerated or untrue.
Clinton was a founder of the society and considered an excellent historian. When giving this presentation he had documentation and academic references for each of the statements.
The neocons tend to believe that if we can invade a dictatorial country and depose the tyrant, the people could then establish a democracy and that in turn will stimulate neighbors to overthrow their tyrannical rulers and also establish a democracy. The difficulty with that theory as was shown in Iraq, one of their instigated invasion, is that while there are always a small minority of the people who share Western views on Democracy and human rights, most of the people do not. Theocrats, fanatics, fascists, ultranationalists, all strive to shape the society to their view (and settle old scores) and the result is either gridlock or Civil Wars, The societies do not have the institutions to support a democratic society and we do not have sufficient nation building skills, to make up for the shortcomings.
The South had a tradition of lynching even before Reconstructon. Southern Leaders like Jefferson encouraged and justified the heinous practice. In the West there was a good bit of vigilantism justified by the fact that there was no functioning legal system and few law enforcement officers. But Jefferson and many other Southerners, although there was a law enforcement system except in the most rural areas, advocated lynching as a combination of vengeance and other emotions that are hard to identify.
The Stamp Act induced rioting, but Gage believed that plunder was the main motivation. See Robert Novack for a similar view of riots and protests.
This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
