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To: archy

Despite all the codes, do you really think anyone would be prosecuted?


15 posted on 04/05/2018 1:12:25 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
Despite all the codes, do you really think anyone would be prosecuted?

After the Revolutionary War, the new federal government was really too occupied with the overwhelming business at hand- establishing a national constitution, dipping our toes into the waters of international trade, establishing the balance between state's rights and national federal control [the Whiskey Rebellion]- to deal with the leftover problem of Tories, turncoats and leftover traitors.

So that chore was left to the veterans, who likely had the best knowledge and best cause to remain concerned about the enemies still in our midst.

I expect it'll go that way again, if the experience of the Twentieth Century gives us a preview.

The civil war was a catastrophe for Finland. In only a few months, about 30,000 Finns perished, less than a quarter of them on the battlefield, the rest in summary executions and in detention camps. These deaths amounted to about 1 percent of the total population of Finland. By comparison, the bloodiest war in the history of the United States, the Civil War, cost the lives of about 2 percent of the population, but that loss was spread out over four years.

16 posted on 04/05/2018 1:33:26 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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