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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Indeed. I love asking Southernphobes how can you be for the liberty of slaves while enslaving your brothers? Of course, you have to explain it to them first, and then their little wheels turn for so long trying to wrap their little minds around it I just laugh and walk away.


7 posted on 01/30/2015 11:23:35 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lee'sGhost

“Of course, you have to explain it to them first, and then their little wheels turn for so long trying to wrap their little minds around it I just laugh and walk away.”

Plus too much Socialism has killed most of their brain synapses so they can’t make the connection. :-)


11 posted on 01/30/2015 11:27:49 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

I know I shouldn’t answer that snot, but I will try. During the war a captured Southerner was asked, “if you don’t own slaves, why are you fighting?” The response: “Because you are here.” Back then, when men were men, when an invading army crossed into your land, you fought back. As opposed to today...


24 posted on 01/30/2015 11:49:35 AM PST by odawg
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To: Lee'sGhost
Of course, you have to explain it to them first...

That would help.

41 posted on 01/30/2015 12:40:15 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Lee'sGhost

Since a slight majority of Southerners opposed the secession and Confederate government, your remark about there being “Southernphobes” is a strawman argument based upon a myth of Sotuhern solidarity. The Home Guard enslaved and killed Southerners in wholesale lots. Wrap your mind around that.


49 posted on 01/30/2015 1:19:10 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: Lee'sGhost; Robert A. Cook, PE; Kartographer; rockrr
Lee's Ghost: "I love asking Southernphobes how can you be for the liberty of slaves while enslaving your brothers?
Of course, you have to explain it to them first, and then their little wheels turn for so long trying to wrap their little minds around it I just laugh and walk away."

Speaking of "little minds", yours seems to be a bit, ah, "challenged".
In fact, setting metaphors aside, there's no real comparison between pre-Civil War slavery and today's much lamented "slavery" to Big Government.

As for that Civil War, which the Slave Power provoked, started (at Fort Sumter), formally declared (May6, 1861) and used to invade & ravage every Union state & territory they could reach... well, it ended with more liberty and justice for all, especially the former slave-owners.

84 posted on 02/02/2015 5:40:59 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective.)
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