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To: cowboyway
When oppressed, one has the right, even the obligation, to seek a remedy, regardless of what a man-made law states.

So black slaves had a right and obligation to rebel, and those who would have opposed them were in the wrong?

A word of caution. It isn't possible to make a case that slaveowners fought in defense of liberty. Unless you wish to assert that their slaves weren't really men, as the US Supreme Court ruled was the law of the land.

404 posted on 04/09/2008 4:58:38 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan
So black slaves had a right and obligation to rebel, and those who would have opposed them were in the wrong?

Of course they did! They had a God given right to freedom. But the law of the land at the time protected property rights that extended to slavery. Why are you having such a hard time understanding this very fundamental point? You're mixing up legality and morality again.

Let me help you out. Everybody knows that OJ Simpson killed two people. I know it, you know it, he knows it but a jury in a court of law said he was not guilty. So, even though he's not legally guilty, one day he'll face his Maker and will have to atone for his moral guilt.

Let me give you a word of caution. If you post any more of your couched statements accusing me of being a racist I'm gonna start banging the abuse button.

405 posted on 04/09/2008 9:06:01 PM PDT by cowboyway ("No damn man kills me and lives." -- Nathan Bedford Forrest)
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