[BroJoeK]

FLT-bird post #244 regarding the January 8 incident at Fort Barrancas: "The fort sat on sovereign Florida territory and was being illegally held by federal troops....and they are the ones who fired first."

DiogenesLamp #286, quoting: "...the would-be attackers, a small group of drunken and rowdy locals, left as soon as the warning shot sounded — if there ever was one. "

So, "drunken and rowdy locals" was it?
That's fine, I have no problem with it, but then have we established that FLT-bird's ludicrous post is simply blind hatred speaking, unconnected to anything factual?

Thank you.

[DiogenesLamp]

It's sometimes difficult to get accurate information because so many people have got their fingers into it in an effort to manipulate events to their advantage.

I try to cut through all the bullsh*t.

I see one side was going to lose a huge amount of future revenue, and the other side was going to gain a huge amount of revenue. Therefore I regard this as a more plausible cause than after "four score and seven years", people suddenly started caring so much about slaves that they decided to start a war on their behalf.

No, it's about the money. It's always about the money.