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To: arrogantsob
“State militia have no business firing on federal troops.”

Actually it was Federal troops that first fired on lawfully constituted state militia at Pensacola. That was the first hostile move by the Federals.

Insurrection is rebellion against established authority.

The Confederacy had legally adopted its Constitution, with the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches.

There was no insurrection against that legal entity. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply a contrivance to refute the truth......a canard on your part.

The land for the fort was transferred under stipulations of usage and payment. The Federal government had violated its agreement, and therefore only possessed it by theft.

You can rattle on about Federal law, but jurisdiction was not established through Constitutional methods.....just the deaths of 700,000 people.

I do not think anyone is interested in your education, or dis-informational experience. You are only interested in painting the picture of history with extreme bias.

Is there anything else?

100 posted on 07/11/2012 2:11:48 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

I realize that telling you to get your facts straight is like King Lear raging against the storm.

There were no shots fired at Fort Pickens until after the Slaver forces attacked Ft. Sumter.

Confederations of states are forbidden in the constitution without Congressional approval. Secession was illegal.

Federal property is always federal property unless Congress allows it to be returned. Ft. Sumter was federal property in 1860.

Indeed it took 700,000 deaths to defend the Union and the constitution from the Slaver Revolt. Freedom does not come cheap.

Why would you mention my education as if it was I who brought it up rather than one of your deluded friends?

I do have a bias in history, I am anti-Anti-American and totally biased towards those who love and protect the United States of America.


121 posted on 07/12/2012 1:01:10 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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