[soakncider]

Why descend into that kind of invective?

The Confederacy is the only example of attempted secession.

I am not pro-slavery. I am pro-liberty, for everyone, of all races. That is the only argument being made.

You are the ones making it about African slavery. I am trying to point out the CURRENT absolute power of the federal government, which marches onward unimpeded. If you are happy with the unbridled power of the central government, that’s fine, but i’m not.

[HandyDandy]

This, my FRiend, is invective, "And pass that bottle, before i sober up" - W. T. Sherman; insane manic, depressed, butcher of innocent civilians."

you: "The Confederacy is the only example of attempted secession." You are not getting my point. The "Confederacy" had nothing to do with legal secession. As I stated earlier, the founding principle of the Confederacy was the unalienable right of the white man to subjugate the black man. Therein lay the fundamental difference between the North and the South.

you: I am not pro-slavery. I am pro-liberty, for everyone, of all races. That is the only argument being made.

If you are pro Confederacy, you are pro slavery. That is inescapable. Sorry.

you: I am trying to point out the CURRENT absolute power of the federal government, which marches onward unimpeded. If you are happy with the unbridled power of the central government, that’s fine, but i’m not.

Then start another thread about that. Don't hijack your own thread.