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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Amazing - your ideology sounds like that of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists

Yeah, aren't they the ones fighting a righteous and holy war against the Great Satan? And I've seen people on this forum try to compare Confederates to terrorists when all they were trying to do was defend their families and homes.

96 posted on 06/15/2004 5:47:57 AM PDT by sheltonmac ("Duty is ours; consequences are God's." -Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)
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To: sheltonmac
I've seen people on this forum try to compare Confederates to terrorists when all they were trying to do was defend their families and homes.

Bump. The Confederates did not try to overthrow the federal government, they defeded themselves:

The experiment instituted by our revolutionary fathers, of a voluntary Union of sovereign States for the purposes specified in a solemn compact, and been perverted by those who, feeling power and forgetting right, were determined to respect no law but their own will. The Government had ceased to answer the ends for which it was ordained and established. To save ourselves from a revolution which, in its silent but rapid progress, was about to place us under the despotism of numbers, and to preserve in spirit, as well as in form, a system of government we believed to be peculiarly fitted to our condition, and full of promise for mankind, we determined to make a new association, composed of States homogenous in interest, in policy, and in feeling.

True to our traditions of peace and our love of justice, we sent commissioners to the United States to propose a fair and amicable settlement of all questions of public debt or property which might be in dispute. But the Government at Washington, denying our right to self-government, refused even to listen to any proposals for a peaceful separation. Nothing was then left to do but to prepare for war.
President Jefferson Davis, 22 Feb 1862


103 posted on 06/15/2004 6:23:58 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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To: sheltonmac
I've seen people on this forum try to compare Confederates to terrorists

Those specious claims must be checked each and every time.

107 posted on 06/15/2004 6:45:28 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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