[Non-Sequitur]

I don't remember anything about their trying to "take away" federal property like Fort Bridger and Fort Osage, either. They walked away from the northern Territories, claimed New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. All else they gave up -- but you never complain about that, only about the part of the ledger where something might have stuck to them. I don't think fairness or equity is your concern here.

They had no claim to that, any more than New York or Pennsylvania did. Those were the property of the feds.

[lentulusgracchus]

Those were the property of the feds.

So we're starting to get a picture here......of what you keep refusing to tell us, who's our daddy?

So you conceive of the Federal Government as being above, as in over, as in the boss and owner of, the American People? Is it the Federal Government who, serene and unperturbable by the mewling of the mob, is the real Sovereign of the United States of America?

Is that your candidate for God Emperor?