Posted on 04/12/2010 12:12:09 PM PDT by wolfcreek
Based on the hundreds of e-mails, Facebook comments and Tweets I've read in response to my denunciation of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's decision to honor Confederates for their involvement in the Civil War -- which was based on the desire to continue slavery -- the one consistent thing that supporters of the proclamation offer up as a defense is that these individuals were fighting for what they believed in and defending their homeland.
In criticizing me for saying that celebrating the Confederates was akin to honoring Nazi soldiers for killing of Jews during the Holocaust, Rob Wagner said, "I am simply defending the honor and dignity of men who were given no choice other than to fight, some as young as thirteen."
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I was not aware of those facts. I’ll have to do more reading on him.
Even though he was a conventional general it still did not stop Gates from using guerilla warefare. And because Washington was on the colonialists side he might as well have been a guerilla fighter himself.
As president he did not hesitate to use a federalized militia of 13,000 men by way of the Militia Law of 1792. He federalized the militia which he previous denigrated.
Whiskey makers and those who had a taste for it (out west) suddenly had an excessive excise tax on whiskey. This really pissed them off and motivated them to rebel against this tyrannical tax. What if the rebels had seriously organized and fought this 13,000 strong federalized militia using guerilla tactics? Who would have been the terrorists?
Since that time the District of Criminals has been just that - a den of criminals, vipers, and sharks. The citizenry of this country who rebel against these organized criminals’ agenda are viewed and propagandized as the terrorists. Seeing on video a man from FEMA call the Founding Fathers terrorists does not surpise me one bit since they had originally rebelled against the Crown only to become tyrants themselves. Is it surprising to see the linkage of the word ‘terrorist’ to ‘Confederate soldier’? One man’s rebel is another man’s terrorist.
With the British subject, Imposter-In-Chief, Barak Obama on the throne in America I expect to see a continual rise in the propaganda about the number of domestic terrorists in this country who happen to be Christians or any other group of conscience who rebels at King Obama and his merry minions in the District of Criminals and their agenda to ‘socialize’ this country into what the Crown originally had at the Jamestown colony - an agricultural commune where every one can be equally miserable.
And as long as Kansas plays Missouri once in football and twice a year in basketball the Border War will live on.
“Setback in his first command” is a masterpiece of understatement! Judged solely on his performance in the Seven Years War, the colonies would have been better off without him.
I did crack up at that one. Add the “Grant owned slaves” part and the whole thing was a side-splitter. Got to hand it to her, she’s dredging up myths I haven’t seen in a while.
Get your heads out of the past and look at the parallels to the *now*; federalism in overdrive
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-- Ulysses S. Grant
By our standards, about 95% of the white population of the US were racists.
If judged by our standards I'd say your 95% figure is a tad low.
Many experts believe that American English is closer to the pronunciation used at the time of the Revolution. Perhaps if Washington had failed, the Brits wouldn’t talk so funny today.
“...As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.” — Ulysses S. Grant, 1878
Only if Lost Causers are writing their history.
You and your Southron BS!
Begone, racist varlet!
Give Grant a break...he was probably totally snockered when he said that.
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[and ‘House’ was really good tonight]
Oh, yeah.
*13 years later* he “gets religion”.
Talk about revisionist BS.
It is doubtful that Grant said that. He made many statements to the contrary.
One of JEB Stuarts men, I think it was Major Randolph, was holding him hostage when the Wino made that remark.
Huh.
He always struck me as more of a heavy bourbon drinker.
The two most famous “drunks” of the 19th century, Poe and Grant, actually drank very little. In both cases, a small amount of alcohol was poison to them.
OK, how about this?
"I was never an abolitionist, not even what could be called anti-slavery, but I try to judge fairly and honestly and it became patent in my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never be at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without slavery. As anxious as I am to see peace established, I would not therefore be willing to see any settlement until the question is forever settled."-- Ulysses Grant 1863 letter to Elihu Washburne
Better? Oh and by the way, you wouldn't happen to have a date and source for that Grant quote you've been tossing round, have you?
-- U.S. Grant
‘Oh and by the way, you wouldn’t happen to have a date and source for that Grant quote you’ve been tossing round, have you? “
Okay..now you’re really getting creepy.
The post to which I replied contained a quote *you* offered.
Don’t *you* know where you got it?
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