Posted on 12/16/2015 3:22:25 PM PST by PROCON
As someone I was in a conversation said to me about the 2008 election: "I have two nieces that voted for the first time this election. I asked them. if you don't mind telling me, Who did you vote for? Both answered, Obama. I asked, Why? One responded, I wanted to say that I voted for the first Black man that ran for President. The other answered, I wanted to make a difference." That was back in 2009 and things have only gotten worse since then. And I don't know if this helps you to understand what is happening or not. But, there are a hell of a lot that think as these girls think. Probably about 51% 0f the population. By November of 16, it will be 55 or 56% as the colleges and high schools will have graduated several classes between 2009 and 2016.
Yes or No you loser.
As a brain-dead Lost Causer, you have no clue -- zero -- what any alleged "Lincoln coven" might think.
You can only assume the worst, and hurl insults.
Brain-dead.
Pick one coward, make a stand.
Deny it then and I will stand down.
Deny what? Removing Confederate statues?
I think it's idiotic, stupid, political correctness run-amuck, very much akin to Taliban destroying statues of Buddha in Afghanistan.
I have no problem with honoring Confederates, or flying Confederate flags -- there are Confederate flags flying on houses near my home in central Pennsylvania, and on pickup trucks, usually side by side with US flags.
Indeed, I'd ask you to consider two different situations:
What's wrong with this picture?
Lincoln had issued a call for three-year enlistments on May 3, 1861 [Source: Link], and many of the thousands who enlisted in response to his call might choose to leave the Army and not reenlist when their three year period was up in May or June of 1864. The Provost Court sentenced the men from the 159th in March 1864. The Army might have thought it in their best interest to retain all the soldiers they could, including in this case, convicted rapists, to offset the men who might leave at the end of their three-year enlistment.
Deny you feel it would have been better and justice served if Lee ad Davis would have been hanged for treason. Yes or No. Quit dodging the question.
I've dodged nothing, have answered your questions more than once, at great length.
To repeat: the US Constitution defines "treason", authorizes Congress to set penalties and provides for presidential pardons.
After the Civil War, RE Lee was not arrested or punished in any way, excepting denied the right to vote.
Jefferson Davis was arrested and indicted for treason, held in confinement for two years and then released on $100,000 bail (paid by wealthy Northerners like Horace Greely, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith), before receiving blanket amnesty-pardon from President Johnson on December 28, 1868.
My opinion is that is exactly the way such matters should have been handled.
I also have no problem with Southern towns raising up monuments to their Confederate heroes.
And, just as I noted before, after the war most of those Confederate leaders, including Davis, urged their fellow Southerners to remain loyal to the United States.
That seems to me far more valuable to the nation, and to justice itself, than any possible satisfaction taken from seeing those leaders hanged.
Short answer: yes, I agree with President Andrew Johnson's blanket pardons of all Confederate leaders.
You are dodging the question, again.
No, you don't like my answer, so you pretend I've "dodged" something.
I HATE LIBERALS
You are incapable of saying yes or no, why? Coward.
My answer is as clear as the nose on your face, you're just afraid to see it. Coward.
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