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To: P-40
> Why would we be embarrassed?

This should do it:

"That they have in violation of the comity of all civilized nations, and in violation of the comity established by the Constitution of the United States, insulted and outraged our citizens when traveling among them for pleasure, health, or business, by taking their servants and liberating the same, under the forms of State laws, and subjecting their owners to degrading and ignominious punishment;"

This, from the Mississippi Resolutions on Secession.

Do you not see the irony of a slaveowner bitching about someone insulting them or taking their property or subjecting them to "degrading and ignominious punishment?"

Such staggering hypocrisy would be embarassing if I was basing my arguement on it.

Plus, I'd be *damned* embarassed if, in this time when our soldiers are fighting and dying to liberate people I'll never meet and who will never be fellow Americans, the people I was defending in an arguement were bitching about slaves being liberated.

352 posted on 06/15/2006 11:42:37 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: orionblamblam
the people I was defending in an arguement were bitching about slaves being liberated.

Different time, different way of life. I have to see things through their eyes to understand them...and I am in no way embarrassed. As a side note, my family did not "immigrate" here. We came here and purchased or took by force what we wanted and formed this great nation. Should that embarrass me? It does not.
357 posted on 06/15/2006 11:50:31 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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