A big chess piece just moved - “Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Formation of Florida State Guard”
(theconservativetreehouse.com)
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It's being done to justify attacking your own country because you disagree with some of its laws.
It's a lot harder to justify when good men fought to defend their homes regardless of if they agreed with every law on its books or not.
Thank you for your kind-hearted and intelligent commentary here. Though I wasn't born in Virginia, I've lived here for over three decades and come to respect not only Robert E. Lee the MAN and MILITARY TACTICIAN, but also the unimaginable struggle that Lee went through when wrestling with the decision to defend his country, or defend his home state.
One of my G-grandfathers' muster roll for the Civil War calls it the "War in Defense of Virginia." They considered it an invasion of their homeland by the northern troops.
That's what Elves do. :-(
When General Sherman went to war and burnt down Georgia from Atlanta to the city limits of Savannah. He was waging war against women and children. All the men were in Va. getting ready to take the Captial. Gen Sherman encounters no resistance. They rape and pillage between Atlanta and Savannah. Savannah surrendered before Gen Sherman even got to the city. But he continued on to Columbia S.C. to save his worst for last.
Top 3, including General Mcarthur not Mcarthy lol
I too vote to make Joseph McCarthy a posthumous general. JOE MCCARTHY WAS RIGHT
It is not moot at all. The Civil War was about who's brand of slavery was going to win.
And taxes
I believe your ancestors believed what they were fighting in. They were victims of the elitists of the north and south. Just like our soldiers in Iraq were used to fuel the military industrial complex, so too were your ancestors manipulated into doing the bidding of the slave owners. The slave owners didn't give a shit about your ancestors and never would have done anything for them if the South had won.
But it's okay. The North wasn't some mercy liberation force either. They had their own interests in beating the South that had nothing to do with slavery. The Civil War should have never happened and Jefferson and the other reformists should never have compromised.
Sorry fren, but your ancestors were conned into supporting an evil cause. They were motivated to fight and die to maintain a caste system where even the poorest white non-slaveowner, was still a racially superior class over any black, enslaved or free, didn't matter. A nation cannot invade itself. Lincoln, a constitutionally elected President (despite 10 slave states illegally barring Republican Electors from being on the ballot), did what the massive puss puppet Buchanan wouldn't do... Lincoln had balls and defended the Constitution against insurrection and rebellion that was started by butthurt, sore loser, slave-loving Democrats and their ex-Whig "popular sovereignty" tolerating faggots who like modern-day "pro-choice" abortion allies argued "if you don't like slavery, don't own a slave." They saw the writing on the wall. The Republicans won. The free soil party (ban the extension of slavery) took power. The only next logical step, was the rise of outright abolitionism. Race-based chattel slavery was doomed. Tic tok, tic tok. So what did they do? Engaged in actual traitorous insurrection and rebellion by deposing duly elected state officials, storming and taking control of United States military and civil installations (arsenals, forts, post offices), violating the constitutional rights of loyal US citizens and depriving them of a republican form of state government. Oh, and that was all BEFORE LINCOLN WAS INNAGURATED.
It's appalling to see so many professed Patriots on these boards, still promoting Lost Cause propaganda bullshit that Democrats pushed on the US, primarily southern, education system for the past 150 years.
Do you mean like how the British invaded the American colonies/states during the American Revolution?
Either people have a right to break free of a government they do not agree with, or they do not. American Revolution and Civil War were the same issue. But most people take opposite sides.
Slavery was and still is an evil institution. It existed for thousands of years, and continues to exist today.
But the issue of a people having the right to break free and form their own government is also an important issue, and Lincoln was wrong on that one.
You're on the right track, but Lincoln was no hero. In fact, he was a racist himself and still saw the white man as superior. He didn't start the war to "do the right thing" he did it to keep power. He only made it about slavery when he was losing and needed more support.
Jefferson failed to settle this issue in 1776. With the French's help, the free colonies could have led their own resistance then dealt with the South. At that point the American Revolution would have been about freedom. It was not. America was never free until after the civil ended and the slaves were free and then in 1913 we were put into the paper irons of the Federal Reserve.
Why did the Constitution of the CSA outlaw the slave trade?
Hint - Outlawing the slave trade was the first step in the process of all other "civilized countries" eliminating slavery.
Hadn't thought of it that way, but good point.
It all comes down to your own front door
Agreed.