Posted on 03/02/2020 3:07:25 AM PST by Bull Snipe
The Commandant of the Marine Corp, General David Berger, has ordered "the removal of fall Confederate-related paraphernalia from Marine Corp installations.
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You call it illegal. I call it something the framers addressed in the Constitution.
Which article and section of the Constitution lays out the process for seceding from the United states.
tobacco and cotton are not goods, they are raw materials.
As far as food is concerned, the North far outstripped the South in food production. Since most agricultural land was dedicated to growing cotton and tobacco
And many historians maintain that confederates were attempting to save America, the one that was envisioned in our Constitution in which we were to have a representative republic. You know, back in the days when the term “United States of America” was a plural collective noun, not a singular noun that referred to a bloated federal government that routinely ignores the Constitution until a politician wants to roll it out like the tired old family member nobody thinks about except at family reunions.
Kind of sound like America today, doesn’t it?
Now the Army’s going to have to rename a lot of posts...
Some of the left wing fools have already raised that issue with the Army. The Army said no.
That’s very much true!
Okay.
Sad to see the USMC go PC but once they let in open homosexuals and let (unqualified) women into combat MOSes the die was cast.
This is not your grand dads Marine Corp.
many historians maintain that confederates were attempting to save America
Please name some of those historians.
Now the Army’s going to have to rename a lot of posts...
The MARINE CORPS is out PC’ing the Army. Unbelievable.
This is not your grand dads Marine Corp.
This PC kowtowing really bring into question the long term viability of the service. They’ll probably keep the snappy USMC uniforms but those will strictly be for recruiting. For all intents and purposes the historical United State Marine Corps is dead.
Cotton
The process started immediately, but it takes about a week. During that time, I was driving a desk, and all the mail went through me.
This guy was writing letters to his WIFE (an actual, female wife) every day.
So I just said, hey Gunny, you might want to look at this. I think the guy ended up spending some time in the Brig.
This left-wing “politi-fact” number is simply unbelievable.
From the 1860 Census, conducted per the Constitution of the United States, in South Carolina 45% of families owed at least one slave. In Mississippi the number of slave owning families rose to 49%. In the States of the Confederacy 5,580,000 people owed 3,500,000 slaves. Three out of four Southerners did not own any slaves.
I agree, I hear boot camp is not the same either.
Even though the losing side in the war was right. States are sovereign. The union is voluntary and based upon consent. States have the right of unilateral secession. Lincoln was a tyrant who waged an unconstitutional war of aggression for money to impose a government on people who did not consent to it.
cotton is a raw material, it is not manufactured goods.
Now the cloth made from cotton is a manufactured good.
The North produced $181,000,000 worth of cloth in 1860.
The South produced $10,000,000,worth of cloth in 1860.
In my company we had a guy tell the DI that he was queer. The DI pulled out his dick and said prove it. The recruit wouldn’t, he was gone that day and rumored to be in the brig. We had a few others go AWOL, after they got out of the hospital (badly beaten up) they went to the brig too. PI was not a fun place in the summer of 69.
Some just cannot get past the government/PC Revisionist propaganda. They are willfully blind to the fact that the centralization of power in the hands of the federal government and the denial of the sovereignty of the states has led directly to almost all of the problems we have today from an oppressive federal government, to constant meddling abroad to unsustainable debts that will eventually bankrupt the country.
This was all foreseeable and was actually foreseen.
“I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination.” - President Jefferson Davis The Atlantic Monthly Volume 14, Number 83
“If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.” -Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America
“I love the Union and the Constitution,’’ he said, ``but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it.” Jefferson Davis
“I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.” Robert E. Lee in a letter to Lord Acton
This is why all the “slavery, slavery, slavery” from the PC Revisionists and no mention of the economic grievances of the Southern states and no mention of their objections to the centralization of power.
“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war against states fighting for the independence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery.” Woodrow Wilson
Sorry I am not buying your numbers.
If you don’t understand the role cotton played in the events leading up to the war then I don’t have the time or the inclination to explain it to you.
I will give you a clue, England and France were very interested in the cotton grown in the south.
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