NINETEEN OF THE MANY: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “THE VAMPIRE KILLER” (“Vampires” are mythological or folkloric creatures who survive upon the “life essence” [e.g. “blood”] of living beings. Their “food objects” may be “undead” [dead beings who act as if they are alive] or they may be “not dead” or alive. “Vampires” have been recorded in a number of human cultures over time, and their accountings or stories may pre-date the oral and/or the written history of humanity. For the purposes of this e-article, the term “vampire” [and its “familiar” or supporting entity] is being utilized as a “metaphor” for any advocate [i.e. an anti-abolitionist and/or its supporting, “oligarchic” benefactor] for the enslavement of human beings for social and/or financial gain. The association of the name of the great Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865] with a particular “vampire” legend was an idea which was taken from the American writer, Seth Jared Greenberg [from his horror fantasy fiction novel of 2010, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”]. And, the title of this e-article is a simple paraphrasing of the title of Greenberg’s 2010 creative work.) Of the 44 Presidents of the United States of America, President Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), the 16th President, is considered to be one of its seven greatest by epluribusunumxiii.net. The other six (in chronological order) were: Washington1; Roosevelt 26; Roosevelt 32; Truman 33; Eisenhower 34; and, Johnson 36. (The multiple-criteria system of evaluation used for these conclusions may be found on Wikipedia, under a number of different headings which would include the heading of the “Greatest Presidents of the United States.”) The great Abraham Lincoln accomplished two “nation-changing” objectives while being the 16th President of the United States (1861-1865): (1) he conducted, and he won the American Civil War (18611865) for the “Union”; and, (2) he helped continue the process of ending “slavery” within a nation which advocated the importance of “individual” freedoms for its citizenry. (The original United States Constitution [created on September 17, 1787 and ratified on June 21, 1788] supported a limited voting franchise. For example and in order to vote, a “citizen” had to be a European “white”, a “male”, and a “property owner.” Through the U.S. Constitution’s Amendment processes, from 1788 to the present, the voting franchise has been expanded to include citizens who were “non-white”, “female”, and “non-European.” It should be remembered that the so-called “American Founding Fathers” were prisoners of the ancient, European philosophies of “racism”, of “elitism”, and of “misogyny.” Still, they were wise enough to create a “flexible and changeable” structure or an “amendment” process [within the structural body of the U.S. Constitution] in order to neutralize their own short comings as well as their own cultural prejudices for future generations of U.S. citizens.) Both “nation-changing” objectives were achieved, “against all odds”, by an unassuming, middle class attorney from the great state of Illinois who was married to Mary Ann Todd-Lincoln, a member of a large and a wealthy, Kentucky, “slaveholding class” family and who could imagine a nation beyond the limited “vision” of the so-called “Founding Fathers” and the contemporaneous “racists”, “elitists”, and “misogynists” of his life-time. And, sometimes, the “popularity” and/or the “correctness of action” of truly great presidents were not appreciated or realized at the time that they were serving the American many. The great Abraham Lincoln was no exception to this observation: Lincoln was hated and feared by a number of the American few, both “North” and “South”, especially by all those American “oligarchs” who “profited from” and who wished to increase their “wealth and influence” by expanding the “slave trade” into the “Northern”, into the “Mid-Western”, and into the “Western” states and territories of the United States of America. Among a number of other issues, the “expansion of slavery” was one of the principal causes of the American Civil War (1861-1865): it was the war of the American “oligarchs” (with international support from a number of European powers which included the nations of Great Britain and of France). (See e-articles “9” and “22” on this website for more background information.) The great Abraham Lincoln, over the course of his life-time, grew to oppose “slavery” and to oppose slaveocracy [or the “social systems” which supported it], nationally and internationally. And, if Lincoln were not assassinated at the age of 54 on April 14, 1865, his political position concerning his opposition to the existence of “slavery” (within the United States and its territories) would have become even more extreme (over his lifetime). (“Slaveocracy” was a term which was utilized within the United States of America from 1840 to 1865. It designated the “slaveholding” class within the “Southern” United States whose intent was to “take over and/or control” the federal government in order to protect, to nourish, and to expand the business of “slavery.” The term and its meaning have been extensively criticized by a number of “modern” historians as “fictional” as well as “inaccurate.” That it was “fictional” is extremely doubtful. That it was “inaccurate” may be true, at least in the sense that the term was “too limiting”, in its usage: that is, the business of “slavery” was supported by a number of “oligarchic” groups outside of the “Southern” United States [e.g. New York City, New York was the largest slave market in the Americas “up to the outbreak of” the American Civil War]. Also, some “oligarchic” groups, “laudably”, have always opposed “slavery” as well as the terrible consequences of this “evil” endeavor. Finally, the term, “slaveocracy”, may still have some value today: that is, it may be used to refer to the national and the international groups which have profited, which are profiting, and which will profit from this “inhumane”, “bloody”, and “unjust” enterprise.) The political astute Lincoln understood that the Federal government’s power to end “slavery” was limited by the U.S. Constitution (i.e. before 1965): the issue of “slavery” was “committed to the states to decide.” He thought that the eventual extinction of “slavery” would result from limiting its expansion as well as from encouraging a policy of “compensated emancipation” (a method of ending “slavery” in which the person “owning” a “slave” would be compensated, monetarily or for a period of “indentured labor”, for “his” loss of “property”). Lincoln was the leader of the “moderate element” of the “Republican” party: his policies and his personality were “attacked and ridiculed” by numerous, political factions “from all sides” (i.e. by the “War Democrats”, by the “Radical Republicans”, by the “Copperheads”, by the “Slaveocracy”, by the “Secessionists”, etc.). These political factions were the true “vampires” of their generation. And, ultimately, they conspired to kill “the Rail Splitter”, directly or indirectly, on April 14, 1865. And, John Wilkes “the coward” Booth (1838-1865), the assassin for the American few, ended the life of the author of the “Emancipation Proclamation” (issued on September 22, 1862) and the “Gettysburg Address” (delivered on November 19, 1963) because “the coward” and his group of “familiars” feared change: imagine, this “Rail Splitter” wanting to end “slavery” within the United States and to extend the vote to these “black pieces of property.” And imagine, the American many, from 1865 to 1870, with the enacting of the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution or the so-called “Lincoln Amendments”, attempted to find and to kill all the “vampires” (and their “familiars”) who were in hiding in their “covenants” of social affluence. It is told (by the American many) that Lincoln’s “vampire killers” were, in reality, all of the “fallen” of the American Civil War and the wars thereafter: and, that his “fallen” were and are numbered in the millions. For example, ask Sergeant Dakota L. Meyer of the U.S. Marine Corps (YSOS: 2006-2010): he and his “spirit warriors” are contracted to kill “vampires” by the seven great U.S. Presidents in order to protect the American and Afghan many from “enslavement” by the “radical”, “bloody”, “oligarchic”, “uncaring”, “global”, “disgusting” few. Post Script: The corrupt defense contractor, BAE Systems [or our most advanced systems go to the Pakistani instead of to the American troops, is afraid of its ex-employee, “Medal of Honor” recipient Dakota “the hell we are not” Meyer. And, this treasonous, “defense” contractor should be afraid of Dakota and his friends: has it read Meyer’s first nonfiction work (2012: with Mr. Bing West) about his combat experiences in Afghan, Into the Fire? Dakota L. Meyer was born in Columbia, Kentucky on June 26, 1988: and, he was “oppositional” from birth. That is, he would always stand against “irrational, “uncaring”, “profits over human life” authorities when it came to the protection of the people that he loved. And, that was the case on September 8, 2009: while serving with the Marine Embedded Team 2-8, Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-7, in Kunar Province, Afghan, Marine Lance Corporal (LCpl) D.L. Meyer was maintaining security at a patrol rallying point “while other members of his team moved on foot with two platoons of Afghan National Army soldiers [and Border Police] into the village of Ganjgal for a pre-dawn meeting.” Suddenly, “the patrol was ambushed by more than 50 enemy fighters firing rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and machine guns from houses” and from fortified positions on the mountainous slopes above. With a Marine “combat brother” driving a gun-truck and Meyer taking “the exposed gunner’s position”, they drove “into the enemy fire” to save their “combat family”: “Disregarding intense enemy fire now concentrated on their lone vehicle, Corporal Meyer killed a number of the enemy fighters with the mounted machine guns and his rifle, some at near point blank range, as he and his driver made three solo trips into the ambush area.” During the first two trips, Meyer and his driver “evacuated two dozen Afghan soldiers, many of whom were wounded.” During their third solo trip (with another gun-truck gotten from the rallying point), his “accurate fire directly supported the remaining U.S. personnel and Afghan soldiers fighting their way out of the ambush. Despite a shrapnel wound in his arm, Corporal Meyer made two more trips into the ambush area” in yet a third gun-truck in which he was accompanied by four other Afghan soldier vehicles for the purpose of recovering “more wounded Afghan soldiers” and for the purpose of searching for his “missing U.S. team members.” Also, on Corporal Meyer’s fifth and last trip “into the fire”, he “dismounted” his vehicle and he “moved on foot” to locate and to recover the lifeless bodies of his team members: “The hell we will not” Meyer, repeatedly and tenaciously, disobeyed command orders NOT to recover the wounded, dying, and fearing soldiers [in the ambush area] in the over six-hour, intense “Firefight of Ganjgal.” (Historically, it is told [by the American and Afghan many] that when Corporal Meyer was ordered NOT to go “into the fire” in an attempt to save his “combat family”, he shouted, along with the shouting of a fierce, female, Afghan banshee called “Malalai”, “The hell we are not going ‘into the fire’ to save our family.” Apparently, “Malalai” [with her wedding veil in hand] protected Lance Corporal Meyer for six consecutive hours on this intensely violent September morning. Also, it is said that “Malalai” continuously hunts the Islamic Taliban for their evil actions against her “namesakes” of the past, of the present [e.g. the Pakistani “Malala”], and of the future. Finally, the “Great Warrioress” has condemned the Islamic Taliban and the global “defense” contractors to the “drone fires of hell” for their crimes against her innocent “namesakes.”) To all those who profit from the “blood” of the many: you should be afraid of this “crazy” (due to untreated, post-traumatic stress disorder or “combat anxiety”, Dakota attempted suicide, while intoxicated, with an empty “Glock” pistol in 2010) friend of an equally “crazy”, female, Afghan, “spirit warrioress”, “Malalai of Maiwand.” (They say “Malalai” can empty a semi-automatic, Glock pistol with one hand while holding a wedding veil in the other: you may not realize that the Afghan “Warrioress” is very protective of her “combat family.”) By the way, “Malalai” is a “spiritual” friend of seven great U.S. Presidents: and, they are honored to call her their friend. After all, not all female “banshees” are of Irish decent! Some are of Afghan origin and their fierce shouting can be heard “within and outside of the intense fires” of the hell of combat. To hell with the “oligarchs” (the American and the European few and their “Slaveocracy”; and, “Big” Ammo and “Big” Defense and their “blood” profits) and their “familiars” (the political factions who advocate the destructive prejudices of the original U.S. Constitution and the political elements everywhere who support the “slavery” of others in all its evil forms), Fromoneofthemany