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To: Sherman Logan
On second reading, I think you meant in America.

I don't believe that was ever an issue. And there does seem to be a major difference between being on the side of a foreign country in a war and taking a side in a domestic dispute that represented over nine million Americans (the CSA states' population at the time.)

Regardless, I probably would ignore it. Rights are for everyone; it's too slippery a slope to let the government ever get its foot in the door deciding what is and is not acceptable.

57 posted on 09/26/2009 8:13:32 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: GoldStandard

The whole point is that the CSA claimed to be a foreign government and their supporters in the USA agreed. So they were by definition supporting a country at war with their own. IOW, it wasn’t a “domestic dispute” at all.


58 posted on 09/26/2009 8:17:07 PM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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