Posted on 03/21/2009 6:26:13 AM PDT by cowboyway
ATLANTA — In a cultural war that has pitted Old South against new, defenders of the Confederate legacy have opened a fresh front in their campaign to polish an image tarnished, they said, by people who do not respect Southern values.
With the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States in 2011, efforts are under way in statehouses, small towns and counties across the South to push for proclamations or legislation promoting Confederate history.
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As accurate as most of your other statements. I work in the private sector, and have since I left active duty ove 20 years ago.
“Southern actions of any kind were not opposed until the South chose war.”
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Your are beating yourself to death here, NS.
“Oh please. I have nothing against the South per se. I was stationed down there for many years. It’s unreconstructed rebels that I have the contempt for, and who’s loyalty to my country that I doubt.”
And Sir,
Since YOUR American President Obamy is hell bent on outlawing firearms and my State will wish to leave your “Union”~ Are you going to take them by force? and force us to stay? What a little Hitler you are!
You seem to be the one who can't keep their bullshit straight. Go back you your reply 194 and tell me again you were talking about tariffs.
You incoherent. Calm down and wipe that foam off your mouth before you throw an aneurysm or something.
Really? And other than refusing to allow the South to steal any more federal property just how were the Southern actions opposed prior to the South firing on Sumter?
Yardstick already tried the cheap shot personal approach.
So rather than go back out on the playground, Tell me, what was noble?
Fair enough.
No. On one side in Ireland, the other New Hampshire dairy farmer. Neither of the age to get involved.
So this is not personal unlike most posting here. Which is why it is kind of funny to see modern day people defending the failed effort to preserve slavery.
Nothing. It was OK. The people were nice enough. I confess that I have no desire go back there and no reason to do so, and I also don't subscribe to your Southron myths. For some reason y'all seem to equate that with hatred and loathing.
Some nice Southern girl slap your face when you tried to cop a feel?
What's your excuse? Some Yankee bite you when you were a child or something?
And as for loyalty, I think it’s pretty obvious that your loyalty is first and foremost, once and forever, to the government, and not to the country and its people and thei Constitution.
And what would you know about country and Constitution?
“And other than refusing to allow the South to steal any more federal property...”
Start corrections from there and then continue.
Nothing to correct.
“Nothing. It was OK. The people were nice enough. I confess that I have no desire go back there and no reason to do so, and I also don’t subscribe to your Southron myths. For some reason y’all seem to equate that with hatred and loathing.”
What part of the precious South did you temporarily occupy, btw?
And, what Southron myths?
C’mon. Curious, ignorant, un-edumacated minds want to know.
Charleston, South Carolina.
And, what Southron myths?
Where to begin? How about starting with your claim that the rebel cause wasn't motivated primarily by slavery and the threat to it they saw in Lincoln's election?
Now, now, NS, is that a claim or myth?
We does got us some private skools down here and I do dost knows that there be a diffrence in the 2!
Cainst you tell me the diffrence tween the 2?
You really are the offspring of a female canine.
“And what would you know about country and Constitution?”
At this time it is appropriate to define the word “country”:
COUNTRY. By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Every man’s country is in general the state in which he happens to have been born, though there are some exceptions. See Domicil; Inhabitant. But a man has the natural right to expatriate himself, i.e. to abandon his country, or his right of citizenship acquired by means of naturalization in any country in which he may have taken up his residence...”
~Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856.
Each state in the Union is, therefore, more accurately characterized as a country.
Moreover, it should be noted that the Confederate forces in the so-called Civil War were not actually “rebels” as ignorant historians and federal officials commonly refer to them. This fact exists because, then and now, the United States has no lawful authority to force any state to remain in the Union, nor the authority to conquer any state.
Remember, rebels have the primary purpose of turning the sovereignty of their country over to another power. The Confederate States in the War Between the States were not doing this at all: They—the states—were the power, not the United States.
I'm not overly concerned with which you think it might be.
We does got us some private skools down here and I do dost knows that there be a diffrence in the 2! Cainst you tell me the diffrence tween the 2?
Probably not. At least, not from your spelling and grammar skills.
Bee-yaaaatch!
Hold yo tongue there, lowest Hillbilly, lest we be slapped upside the head with some of that thar teenage edumacated intelligence.
(*sniff*) Does that mean you don't like me?
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