Posted on 03/22/2017 1:34:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
John B. Floyd, the Secretary of War, was sending guns and ammunition to southern militias when secession talk was loud and getting louder, with the likelihood that secessionist forces would make use of them against the US.
It's a murky situation. So long as the states hadn't voted to leave the union, they were legally entitled to a share of federal equipment. Floyd had an alibi for much of what he did, but there was so much corruption and chaos that just how guilty he may have been is still being discussed.
Floyd was charged with fraud in his (and his department's) financial dealings and fled South were he became a Confederate general. I think it's safe to say that whatever the legal aspects of the case, he was very definitely arming those he knew would become insurgents before too long and working against the new administration and the country.
Rush stated today that 97% of the DOJ voted Hillary... How do you go after the traitors when the DOJ supports them?
“...some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
I have no answers for you, Phil.
But no one - and I mean no one - right is doing ANYTHING with the tools we handed them to stop the Left.
Maybe King George was close.
DRAINING THE SWAMP
Watch this and imagine all that cr*p is Fogy Bottom and all the evil minions Trump stands against..
We MUST fight and stand with him The days of sideline politics is over - He’s putting his life, literally, on line for us - we need to roll up our sleeves and get into the fight - from our backyards to DC
Watching the news and FR and opining ain’t gonna get it done...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqROBTVgL6A
Good post!
“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.
LS, the historian was referring to Jefferson’s dealings with Layfayette and the French, I believe. I will contact him for clarification.
I think it’s a general principle of his that rebellion kept the leaders in line-—but I note that when Adams “rebelled” against his administration by appointing the “Midnight Judges,” he didn’t like that “rebellion” one bit.
Sessions is finally revving up
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/27/jeff-sessions-says-hell-punish-sanctuaries-cities/
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