Another incident I read about in Shelby Foote's narrative history concerns General "Spoons" Butler's occupation of New Orleans.
After the occupation began there was a civilian protest where the United States flag was burned. Days later a civilian wearing a piece of the burned flag in his coat button hole was arrested by US military police.
He was tried by a military court and executed.
Terrorism or just plain tyranny?
All of the above.
One either begets or is the result of the other.
“Days later a civilian wearing a piece of the burned flag in his coat button hole was arrested by US military police.
He was tried by a military court and executed.”
Brutal.
Possibly a glimpse from the past that may become our future.
And when Texas militia tracked down 65 Unionists attempting to flee to Mexico and killed 35 of them, or when a few weeks later 50 Unionists in lynched in Gillispe Country, or when 150 Unionists were rounded up in Gooke and Grayson Counties and 39 executed, was that terrorism or just plain tyranny?