Were Confederate soldiers terrorists?

CNN ^ | 4.11.10 | Roland S. Martin

[trumandogz]

(CNN) -- Based on the hundreds of e-mails, Facebook comments and Tweets I've read in response to my denunciation of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's decision to honor Confederates for their involvement in the Civil War -- which was based on the desire to continue slavery -- the one consistent thing that supporters of the proclamation offer up as a defense is that these individuals were fighting for what they believed in and defending their homeland. In criticizing me for saying that celebrating the Confederates was akin to honoring Nazi soldiers for killing of Jews during the Holocaust, Rob Wagner said, "I am simply defending the honor and dignity of men who were given no choice other than to fight, some as young as thirteen."

[NormsRevenge]

Roland is a slave to the past. by choice.

[culpeper]

The fishing guy ?

[Perdogg]

no, since the CSA was a separate nation, they were uniformed combatants. Strangely enough, G Gordon Liddy says that it really wasn’t a Civil War since the CSA was a separate nation.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I despise the Confederacy, but you cannot equate terrorists who murder innocents who are just going about their business with men, often conscripted, who were willing to put their hide on the line in the meat grinder of 19th century combat.

[trumandogz]

And I will never, under any circumstances, cast Confederates as heroic figures who should be honored and revered. No -- they were, and forever will be, domestic terrorists.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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"....celebrating the Confederates was akin to honoring Nazi soldiers for killing of Jews...

Nobody could be that stupid.

[Loud Mime]

which was based on the desire to continue slavery...

Partly? Are they missing the part where they did not agree with the Federal government, so they wanted to withdraw from the Union?

[parsifal]

Roland Martin is a damned idiot and poltroon.

parsifal, the southerner

[Tennessee Nana]

Were Americans on both sides of the American Revolution terrorists ???

[Rebelbase]

A milder form of slavery exists today with a different master but the concept is the same. Stay on the plantation and you’ll be fed, housed and given subsistence for clothing and other incidentals.

Leave the plantation and you have to fend for yourself.

[NormsRevenge]

Haley Barbour piece on the ap wire

Miss. gov says Confederacy flap not worth `diddly'

[AuntB]

Oh, yes, let’s fight the Civil War again! Like once wasn’t enough!

[NormsRevenge]

Nobody could be that stupid.

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Roland is a
CNN “correspondent”
aka propagandist

[Fiji Hill]

"....celebrating the Confederates was akin to honoring Nazi soldiers for killing of Jews...
Nobody could be that stupid.

There are some Freepers who are that stupid, as you'll find out by surfing through some of the Robert E. Lee threads.

[Farmer Dean]

I can think of one person.....

[GonzoGOP]

Robert E. Lee = Absolutely No. Lee fought with honor, in uniform, carried his wepons openly. When he surrendered he stayed surrendered.

William Clarke Quantrill. = Hell Yes. Fought out of uniform, primarily against civilian targets. Did not honor the surrender and his men continued to kill Yankees even after the civil war was long over.

[FrankR]

The Confederate Soldiers were a part of an army just like the Union Soldiers were; they fought bravely, valiantly, and many times successfully for what they believed in, and what they were ordered to do...just like the Union Army.

I don't think it was the first time that a country was split my opposing beliefs and had a war...like VietNam, Korea, etc.

Now, we get a daily dose on the idiot tube with the woe-is-me tales about a practice that ended over a hundred years ago. It's become a cartoon of itself in the OBVIOUS attempt to achieve life-long victim status because some of today's FREE, Ameircan CITIZENS happen to be the same color, or a derivitive the color of the slaves.

There is nothing anyone living today can do to undo slavery, it happened just as other tragedies have happened in history. Those that have latched onto it as a crutch to get a free ride in life today, are the types that would found something to latch onto even if slavery had never happened.

Now we want to bring the Confederate Soldiers into the mix, like somehow they had a say-so in it. They were fighting for a cause, just like the Union Army was fighting for their cause.

I've always wondered by the Union Army weren't busy rounding up the northern slave traders that were bringing these people over from Africa and selling them to the south. Oh, but we don't want to go there, oh no.

Folks, the Civil War is over - as a Southerner I concede that we lost the war, however, I will never concede the bravery of those who fought and died, or the loved ones they left behind to suit some modern-day politically correct analpolyp in his/her quest to garner favor with the victim-class in America.

I think we could be spending a lot of this effort worrying about the future, not a past that we cannot change.

[Oceander]

No, but Sherman was a war criminal.

[GeronL]

No.

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