I’ll get the popcorn. It ought to be entertaining this boring Monday afternoon to see the simplistic arguments fly from both sides of the Great Free Republican Civil War debate.
first, it was about culture and being told what to do with one’s private property.
second, if you want to call the confederates ‘terrorists’ then you’ll need to call the union army ‘dictators.’
Terrorists? No.
The Confederate armed forces, despite individual depredations, didn’t target innocent civilians and didn’t necessarily believe that God (or the Bible) told ‘em to participate in secession.
On the flip side, an argument could be made that segments of the Union army did participate in what could be considered terror-related activities - such as the March thru Georgia.
If I recall, it was the North that targeted the civilians and civilian infrastructure of the South...not the other way around.
Only a complete historical ignoramus could call Confederates terrorists. In other words, just about any CNN reporter, or recent graduate (say since 1968) of the American educational mill.
A far, far better case could be made that Sherman’s Army were terrorists, quite literally. As far as the rare Confederate incursions into the North, there is overwhelming testimony to the courtesy and respectfulness of the Confederate troops. Confederate troops generally only foraged for the minimum necessary rations and supplies, whatever vandalism or criminalty that may have occurred was the exception, not the rule and was certainly not sanctioned by Confederate commanders.
I don’t think it would be unfair to say that not only were Northern civilians treated far better by the Confederates than white Southern civilians were by Northern troops, but they were treated better than black civilians were by Northern troops.
There was no Civil War. There was a War Between the States.
A rather weak attempt at moral relativism by painting the modern day Muslim terrorist who goes out and blows up civilians with the same brush as the Confederate soldier who only wanted to live without the interference of the federal government.
Aside from Missouri Bushwhackers and Kansas Redlegs, No.
The Democrats are trying to paint the tea party as “violent racists”.
Just remember that they are the violent racists, and their history proves it again and again. Never make the mistake of defending Democrat history. Let them own it, and let them defend it. Don’t make their problem easier by claiming it for yourself.
Slave economics, Jim Crow race repression, lynch mobs, fire hoses, firey crosses and bombed out churches, that is their history. They do everything they can to re-write history, and who can blame them? but its theirs and the best thing we can do is to keep reminding them of it.
Ping!
Who reads any garbage CNN puts out?
Now they have Roland Martin’s blather to contend with.
Between all the total nut balls on CNN I am not surprised they don’t have very many watchers.
My sympathies are with the South. Deo Vindice!
My sympathies are with the South. Deo Vindice!
I dunno about the civil war... but the minutemen were definitely guerilla/terrorist oriented
Confederate soldiers were not terrorists. They, like the Federal troops were part of an organized national army. Terrorists, although they may be state sponsored are not recognized as an army because they do not adhere to the rules of war or the laws of warfare. There were some southern as well as northern groups which operated as terrorists outside of the rules of war but they were even then recognized at the time as being terrorists although all of the groups had some government connections. The postwar chartering and support of the KKK by the democrat party did constitute true terrorist actions.
You don’t really want a bunch of Southern squirrel hunting boys chasing your butt through the woods with rifles!
Roland Martin is making erroneous historical arguments. But he believes he can get away with doing so.
I know from whats been handed down that the Southern States politicians wanted to preserve slavery while the combat soldier wanted simply to protect their states from Yankee aggression.
Not every Wehrmacht soldier was a Nazi and many fought honorably for the Fatherland.
The Left should save their hate for the Muslim slave trade still going on and stop digging up irrelevant bones.
It's heritage not hate we honor here in the South.The Romans had more slaves than any but I still think their invention of concrete was pretty cool.