Posted on 12/21/2020 9:35:46 AM PST by EinNYC
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed overnight from its perch in the US Capitol where it has stood next to George Washington for 111 years and will be replaced by one honoring a civil rights icon from Virginia.
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No, but neither is being a wage slave a Christian practice. Throwing freed slaves out on their own is not a Christian practice.
Shooting German soldiers is not a Christian practice but it was a practice that we Southerners did very well in WWI and WWII. Not shooting them was not a Christian practice either.
that Taliban has more than a few supporters here at FR
Wage slave? What sort of Marxist drivel is that?
Throwing freed slaves out on their own is not a Christian practice.
Granting someone their freedom = throwing them out?
What would Jesus do?
Lee, chapter 6, verse 29: If someone seeks their freedom, capture them, imprison them, give them 50 lashes and rub some brine on it.
Right?
You sure put a lot of stock in that 50 lashes quotation. I don’t believe it. When the United States Army was sent to insure a return to order during the Nat Turner uprising, Lee said that the total number of insurgents killed did not rise to the total number of civilians killed by them. He was not a cruel vengeful man.
Would you not feel more comfortable over at DU where people think like you do?
The moment you try to explain how social security works they ban you. Conversation is not allowed. Your 'wage slave' comments would help you fit right in though...
You both are reprehensible!.......You are on the wrong forum!.....Sickening!
Lee fought on the side of those who advocated for the preservation of slavery. He fought on the wrong side.
He should not be honored and thus the southern cause to preserve “that peculiar institution” should not be respected.
And states rights was at best a secondary issue so pushing that up as being the primary reason the south rebelled is bogus.
You really have no idea what you’re talking about and are ill-educated - perfectly evidenced by your weak “he wuz on dur wrong side o history” argument.
“Lee privately opposed the Confederacy in letters in early 1861, denouncing secession as “nothing but revolution” and an unconstitutional betrayal of the efforts of the Founding Fathers. Writing to his eldest son in January, Lee stated:
The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North, as you say. I feel the aggression, and am willing to take every proper step for redress. It is the principle I contend for, not individual or private benefit. As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for “perpetual union,” so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.[84]
Despite his opposition to secession in principle, Lee’s objection on the basis of constitutionality was ultimately outweighed by a sense of personal honor, reservations about the legitimacy of a strife-ridden “Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets,” and duty to defend his native Virginia if attacked.[84] Lee held no illusions about the prospect of civil war and was one of few to correctly foresee the protracted and devastating nature of the conflict.[85]”
Lee, while unapologetic about his actions to defend his state of Virginia in the Civil War was instrumental in reconstruction and reunification afterwards with the North to bring the states back into the union.
I does not matter what he opposed in private. He supported the Confederacy, killed men that opposed him to preserve the institution of slavery. That’s the sum of it. Those are simple facts.
And the fact that you started your post with insults speaks volumes about you.
The Confederacy was an oppressive regime built on the backs of slaves. Robert E. Lee as are all that fought for the Confederacy are not worthy of public honor. They should be footnoted in history and their statues should not be on a public square but in museums.
They were traitors, racists, and rebels that were worthy of being crushed for taking up arms against the Union. I know that hurts your feelings but fact’s don’t care about your feelings.
Boy this thread brought out a ton of new assholes I hadn’t noticed before
I, gonna need a new list on my page
It’s disturbing south bashing continues here on this forum as our country as we knew it fades over the horizon with nary a burp of resistance
How many gunslinger monikers do u have ....is there a succession
You got zotted as partisan gunslinger yet here you are same old bullshit
Merry Christmas
For sure!
ill-educated was not an insult. It was a fact.
There’s plenty to actually bash the south (and the north and Lincoln) for. The fact is that we were (and are) ALL still Americans in that war.
They were no more traitors or separatists then the north were traitors or separatists for pushing them over the precipice.
Tearing down the statues and burning history - that’s ignorant, destruction of history and understanding and wanting to believe in a fairy-tale that’s only believed THIS year is nothing more than revisionist history and scarily Orwellian and not befitting of a free thinking people.
But then that way lies communism and totalitarian rule which it appears our trolls here support.
Opinions are not facts. How deep in your rear end did you dig to pull out your fact?
Right out of your I’ll-educated comments.
You keep all of your ill-educated comments deep in your rear end.
OK Got it.
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