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To: thorvaldr

Taking money to take away other people freedom doesn’t make you a good person, even if you are brave, even if you are good at it.

Exactly right. The Union should not have invaded and conquered the South. They should have left those people to their independence.

21 posted on 04/28/2016 8:43:06 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")

To: DiogenesLamp

I had exactly the same thought.

28 posted on 04/28/2016 9:34:36 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)

To: DiogenesLamp

I don’t remember the Southern States not having any representation in Congress.

43 posted on 04/28/2016 12:51:49 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)

To: DiogenesLamp

"They should have left those people to their independence. "

"Those people" is how Gen. R.E. Lee referred to the Yankees.

45 posted on 04/28/2016 1:10:48 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)

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