Posted on 06/22/2015 4:25:24 PM PDT by iowamark
The only thing I ask of Yankees is just don’t move down here. Stay in the Democratic Socialist States of The NE. :-)
Except for one thing:
The War of Northern Aggression was not about slavery. It was about states rights!
And, the second War of Northern Aggression will be about states rights!
I agree!
Appropriate?????????? Compelling????????
You are advocating censorship of ideas and Traditions-—because some groups are offended-—well, that is just too bad. Sorry——we even allow Billy Ayers to step on the American Flag in posters......so what the Hey??????????????? You think that doesn’t anger some vets??????
Freedom of Speech always NEEDS defending from a Fascist government which is what we have now. We have a Right to offend.
It’s not censorship. If you want to fly that flag you can have one sticking out of the top of your head for all I care. But there’s no reason to give cover to people who want to use it as the rallying point for a race war and have them be able to think that the government on some level is on their side because the same flag representing a lost rebellion is flying over the state capitol grounds.
"AnonymousJune 22, 2015 at 12:40 PM
I'm about to lose another FR account. I start to wonder that it might be because my posts are a little too rational.
"Does anyone have any ideas to help me at least attempt to subvert FR without being picked off almost immediately as a "liberal"? I mean, I know I could just type in something simple like FUJB or FUGOPe, but that seems a little trite to me.
I'm sure someone here has successfully done it for a longer period of time (eg. re_nortex); any help would be greatly appreciated!"
And:
"AnonymousJune 22, 2015 at 8:32 PM
Lol. Thanks Oz.
I tried to say that I don't fly the Confederate flag because I love the 'Murica one (though I didn't say 'Murica because that might be a little too much even for FR). Apparently that hasn't set well with a few Freepers.
I guess there's a flag that's even better than the American one, and that's the one that tells blacks that they're better as slaves."
GOPe strikes again.
Thank you.
People have rights.
States have powers given them by the people.
The Civil War began with the insistence of the free people of the Southern states that they had the authority to deprive the servile people of the Southern states of their rights,and that they and their states had the authority to compel the free people of the other states to assist them in depriving those servile people of their rights.
The term "states' rights" is an oxymoron for the unintelligent to indulge in unreason.
But you don't.
The fact is that the Southern states organized and drove the greatest federal intrusion on constitutional rights and states' autonomy that ever existed in US history - the Fugitive Slave Acts.
They were afraid that the new GOP president and legislature would restore constitutional order - so they started a preemptive war against justice.
Remove the flag and then remove books and Bibles. Then unabridged dictionaries and factual history books. I wonder if they will go after the Koran when all else is gone.
I learned a long time ago that facts are wasted on those that refuse to see anything except their own opinions. So I don’t bother anymore.
My time is far better spent doing other things. Your animosity towards the south is very plain.
Well said.
The War of Northern Aggression was not about slavery
It’s kind of hard to pitch the Civil War as Northern aggression when Southern forces fired the opening rounds...innocuous as the attack on a Federal garrison may have been, it provided the Union warmongers the very opportunity they needed...
It’s like the Japanese people today complaining about genocide through Hiroshima/Nagasaki...all the while forgetting that Pearl Harbor remains on the books as well...
Your animosity towards the south is very plain.
Animosity has nothing to do with truth...please refute, or at the very least, address the argument brought up of the Fugitive Slave Act, if you can...and then answer the question why were the Southern people, through their state governments, usurping the rights of the Northern people, again through government, by requiring the return of escaped slaves, under penalty of law...and thereby causing these non slaveholders to participate in the practice of slavery...?
Yes, it’s a complex issue, and to study it in depth requires more than throwaway posts on a forum...it requires an open mind, for one thing...
War of Northern Aggression because the North waged economic warfare against the South for many years prior to the South firing the first shot.
States rights vis a vis the Federal government dictating to the states.
War of Northern Aggression because the North waged economic warfare against the South for many years prior to the South firing the first shot.
I’ll grant that slavery was an issue, but the war was about economics — high tariffs, imposed by Yankee industrialist’s bought and paid for Congressmen and Senators, were strangling the South.
It must be tough for you to have to share a country with people who celebrate their evil ancestors. How do you manage?
Nice catch. I suspect that troll is on this thread.
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