Posted on 02/25/2019 6:58:42 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Monkey see, monkey do. They’re all hoping for a big money contract with the designer sneaker company, Nike. The Gucci of basketball shoes. Excellent for basketball players, pimps and drug pushers.
So they protest the Confederacy by disrespecting the anthem of the nation that defeated the Confederacy?
Makes sense...
Darn now I’m going to have to stop watching College BBall at least those who knell.
Correction, Kneel.
They did not die to free the slaves. That is a lie we have all been led to believe. They died to make sure that powerful people in New York and Washington DC would continue to control the Southern export trade with Europe.
We have proof of this, because 1 month before Lincoln launched the war, he urged support for a Constitutional amendment (The Corwin Amendment) that would have made slavery "express and irrevocable", in Lincoln's own words.
How does a man go from promoting an amendment protecting slavery to pretending he started a war to stop slavery?
By lying, and by arresting anyone that disagrees with his political claims.
Fascinating. Thanks.
Doesn’t surprise me that a Confederate defends those who kneel to disrespect the U.S. flag.
Sorry about that, I did a FR search and the topic didn’t come up.
Similar things happened to me when I search on FR before.
Who is this "Confederate" of whom you speak? If you are referring to me, I will inform you that my family didn't arrive in this country until the 1900s, and they didn't settle in any of the Confederate states. I do not, and never have lived in any of the states of the Confederacy, and I do not have a dog in this fight.
I grew up believing the usual stuff about the Civil War, because that is what I had been taught. I have only recently discovered that much of what has been taught to me is in fact a lie.
I am trying to inform people about the reality of what happened, because I think it's important to know how the monster government system under which we currently suffer began.
Washington DC control of so much of the nation began as a result of the power seized by Lincoln during the Civil War.
Still saying that, even though you are more biased than just about anybody else here?
About half didn't. The other half, the ones associated with the cause the players were protesting, were fighting to keep slavery in place.
I search by one or two key words in the title. In this case OLE
Try to keep it as simply as possible. Take care.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=ole
If by the term "biased" you mean i'm not going to regurgitate the things that I had always believed prior to learning better in the past few years, then sure, I'm "biased" in favor of correcting the record.
That "Corwin Amendment" was a real eye opener for me. My first reaction was "Wait, what?"
Same thing when I discovered all the Southern produced export money was funneling back into the nation through New York. I immediately realized "here is the profit motive for launching a war against the South."
Well that is just factually incorrect. The Northern side began the war with their leader proclaiming that he had no authority to change the Constitutionally protected practice of slavery. Presumably if he was "preserving the Union", he was requiring obedience to Constitutional law, which is the very essence of the Union.
He was therefore requiring obedience to the pro-slavery clause in the Constitution as much as the rest of the document.
Indeed, his own Emancipation Proclamation excepted every area under Union control, just as constitutional law would have required for every Constitutional jurisdiction.
Punks, ship ‘em to schools in Zimbabwe and Sudan. see how much they end up kneeling there.
LOL! Pull the other leg. It has bells on it.
Well it is absolutely factually correct. Far more correct than your claim is.
The Northern side began the war with their leader proclaiming that he had no authority to change the Constitutionally protected practice of slavery. Presumably if he was "preserving the Union", he was requiring obedience to Constitutional law, which is the very essence of the Union.
And the Southern side linked their cause inextricably to the preservation and advancement of slavery. They launched their war to further that aim.
He was therefore requiring obedience to the pro-slavery clause in the Constitution as much as the rest of the document.
True. And he never violated that oath to defend even that part of the Constitution.
Indeed, his own Emancipation Proclamation excepted every area under Union control, just as constitutional law would have required for every Constitutional jurisdiction.
Complete nonsense. Freeing the slaves in areas in rebellion was well within Lincoln's powers as granted by the Confiscation Acts. The constitutionality of which was upheld by the Supreme Court in their 1862 Prize Cases decision.
The leftists have made it ‘cool’ to diss the USA and the constitution. These kneelers are like robots...with no brains.
As I have repeatedly pointed out to you, the Southern reasons for seeking independence are irrelevant to Northern reasons for invading the South.
Since only the reasons for invading matter, the cause of the war clearly hinges on those. Had the North chosen to stay in it's own states, there would have been no war.
The reasons they decided to go South, are the cause of the war.
Complete nonsense. Freeing the slaves in areas in rebellion was well within Lincoln's powers as granted by the Confiscation Acts.
Confiscation Acts cannot repeal Article IV, Section 2. People keep lying to themselves when they claim that something specifically forbidden by the Constitution can be overridden by a vote of Congress.
It cannot. Honest people will recognize this was a case of refusing to follow constitutional law because they didn't like that particular law.
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