Posted on 03/22/2018 9:00:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Bird seems to be a very unpleasant individual. Long on name calling and very short on facts. We seem to get a lot of them.
Exactly, and remember those folks were all Democrats.
And what is the first rule of being a Democrat?
Right: always blame Republicans for your own misdeeds.
That's why Fort Sumter is Lincoln's fault, or Bush's fault, or Trump's fault, whatever, it doesn't really matter so long as Democrats themselves don't shoulder the blame.
No, but there is so much investment in, and sovereignty over, various properties in any given State by the People of the United States (acting through Congress) that a non-consensual secession will eventually have to have recourse to the Laws of War to effectuate its purpose.
In the instant case of California, I do not believe that we, the People of the United States, would willingly surrender our naval basing facilities at San Diego without both proper compensation and a treaty excluding hostile powers in perpetuity. If California decided to take those facilities by force or to prevent their resupply, then California would be exactly where South Carolina found herself in April of 1861.
South Carolina accepted recourse to the Laws of War, indeed appeared for a time to welcome it.
That being the case, the matter of the eleven wayward sisters was rightly settled once and for all at Appomattox.
Who is "we"? That "ain't" me pal.
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