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To: WKB; mtbopfuyn; lentulusgracchus; stand watie; GOPcapitalist; Non-Sequitur
Will there also be "Celebrate the Black Panthers!" month in Mississippi, for equal time?

Afterall, they plotted to violently overthrow parts of the United States too, didn't they?
155 posted on 04/06/2004 3:12:30 PM PDT by unspun (The uncontextualized life is not worth living. | I'm not "Unspun w/ AnnaZ" but I appreciate.)
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To: unspun
Afterall, they plotted to violently overthrow parts of the United States too, didn't they?

That's a curious attempt at being inflamatory. The CSA was formed out of the duly elected governments of its component states acting through the legislative process. In virtually every single one of those states the voters themselves had a direct role in picking delegates to the conventions where secession was decided. In Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee it was even put to a statewide referendum. So unless you think that the people themselves should have no right to determine the course of their states through their own government institutions, the CSA didn't try to overthrow anything.

158 posted on 04/06/2004 3:30:28 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: unspun; WKB; wardaddy; wylenetheconservative
Will there also be "Celebrate the Black Panthers!" month in Mississippi, for equal time?

More suited for Illinois. Yall can celebrate Communists.

Afterall, they plotted to violently overthrow parts of the United States too, didn't they?

You are truly and thoroughly either woefully ignorant or just plain obnoxious.

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union. We merely wanted to peacefully secede.

159 posted on 04/06/2004 3:33:17 PM PDT by onyx (If FR isn't worth a dollar a day, what is? Be a $1-A-Day Club Member. I am.)
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To: unspun
Also for the record, there were indeed several governments that got overthrown in 1861 - all of them by Lincoln though.

When the government of Virginia, through statewide referendum, decided to secede in a landslide majority Lincoln threw his support behind an unsanctioned minority rump convention in the northwest extremity of the state and declared it to be the legitimate government of all of Virginia. When it became clear that he could not sustain that absurdity, he let them break away from the state and form their own government over their counties plus a couple dozen more to the south who got dragged along unwillingly. That state is now called West Virginia.

In Missouri Lincoln decided one day that the sitting state government, though it was unionist and showing no signs of seceding anytime soon, wasn't unionist enough for his tastes (meaning it was reluctant to go to war and to provide him with militias to invade other states). So he called in the federal army and sent it to attack the capitol, causing the governor, liuetenant governor and state legislature to flee for their lives to the southwest. After they were out of the way he simply appointed a military dictator to run Missouri for the next four years.

In Maryland there were some indications that the state government would either tilt toward secession or say something critical of Lincoln's war policy. Lincoln's response? Round up all the legislators, mayors, and other elected officials who weren't enthusiastic enough about his war mongering and throw them in Fort McHenry's prison.

160 posted on 04/06/2004 3:37:51 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: unspun
I find it ironic that a man from the state that elected Carol Mostly-Fraud and will probably elect Barak Obama wants to lecture Mississippians about the violent overthrow of the Government by the Black Panthers.
195 posted on 04/06/2004 8:26:52 PM PDT by wylenetheconservative (Max Cleland and Larry Flynt are the same person)
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