“And the parts where all you Lost Causers express your hatred of the U.S. and your phobia for homosexuality. She wondered why you were allowed to be so anti-American and I reminded her that this is a free country where even idiots have the right to speak their mind.”
You are reminded that this is a free country? Shoosh, too bad your mass murdering lawyer from Illinois never entertained the limits of executive power or the concept of consensual government with respect to freedom. Too bad he never gave any thought to a reasoned cooling off, but rather, in a panic of irrelevance and incompetence, chose to escalate a legal difference of opinion into an generational holocaust. Great man. A real transformative person.
You speak of the horror of slavery, the denial of another humans right to choose, but defend those who could not accept the opinions of others and so chose to murder them. Do you see any irony in this position? When your hero’s armies were revealed as incompetent, he hired a drunk who unleashed his forces on civilians to rape, loot, and burn all in their way. This, again was done for righteous, pious, assholiness reasons. Killing civilians is what the Fed became under your dear leader. You justify it based on your “anti-slavery” morality and Constitutional inventions. The reality of Lincoln’s anti-slavery position was the dawning emptiness of his rhetoric of murdering citizens to preserve a union that did not exist. Even yankees were beginning to see this as a problem. He broke the Union, not the south. When his frail “legalistic” reasons for killing, imprisoning and looting those that disagreed with him became apparent, he desparately grasped the abolitionist movement for his new cause of murder. He became what he said he detested, a slave owner. He enslaved the south at the point of the sword. I do recall you being against such an act. He destroyed an entire economy, denied citizens due process, property rights, and the right to vote. Great union. He and sucessors installed puppet governments under “reconstruction” that would make Stalin plush. And for all of this, you think we the ancestors of a vanquished and enslaved people need to be moralized by the likes of you concerning right and wrong. Get real.
As I’ve said before, the South is the cultural center of America. This is why those of a pious “transformative” nature instinctually attack it. Because we define the true touchstone or archetype of America we are always a continual threat to those who wish to inflict foreign ideas onto the body politic. We stand today stronger than your ancestors. We have be tested like no other peoples in America and we will win our freedom and defend it. Take that back to your new Illinois transformer.
I like your tome, I can’t find much info on actual civilian deaths caused by Federal troops in GA. campaign. I think most of the atrocities were against property.
Rabid Lost Cause hyperbole. Gotta love it.
Too bad he never gave any thought to a reasoned cooling off, but rather, in a panic of irrelevance and incompetence, chose to escalate a legal difference of opinion into an generational holocaust.
And what about Davis? You don't think he should have thought twice before he began an armed conflict that would devestate the South, hill hundreds of thousands of men, and lead to the end of the confederacy? Maybe thought three times before doing all that?
You speak of the horror of slavery, the denial of another humans right to choose, but defend those who could not accept the opinions of others and so chose to murder them.
Oh give me a break. When those others choose war to further their aims then you have no choice but to surrender or fight back. What you're whining about is the fact that Lincoln didn't roll over and surrender to Southern aggression. Like a spoiled rotten five-year-old, you blame all your woes on someone else and take no responsibility for your own decisions.
When your hero’s armies were revealed as incompetent, he hired a drunk who unleashed his forces on civilians to rape, loot, and burn all in their way.
And what you're blubbering about is the fact that that 'drunk' beat every general your glorious confederacy sent against him. So what does that say about them? That they got their ass kicked by a drunk?
Killing civilians is what the Fed became under your dear leader.
Absolute nonsense.
As I’ve said before, the South is the cultural center of America.
In your imaginary world I'm sure it is.
We have be tested like no other peoples in America and we will win our freedom and defend it.
So you keep telling us. Over and over and over again.
“You speak of the horror of slavery, the denial of another humans right to choose”
Equality,
I’m sure that by now you have seen there are those on this thread who cannot see their own hypocricy. Yes, they speak to the horror of the institution itself, of humans not having a right to choose. Yet, these very same individuals, would readily deny another the right to form a personal moral judgement regarding the origin of slavery.
I personally find no right to judge another’s opinions of the origins of bondage (compassion argument) vs death. One man would choose bondage, another would choose death. One man sees compassion, another sees no such thing. Who am I to sit in judgement another’s views on the origin of slavery vs death? Who is anybody to sit in judgement of another’s opinion on the issue?
Those of whom I speak are incapable of separating two completely different concepts, or perhaps they just choose not to.
“I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.” -— Abraham Lincoln, upon his replacement of General Burnside with General Hooker for command of the Army of the Potomac