Posted on 04/03/2013 3:25:29 PM PDT by BigReb555
Late in the day man!
“Of course, you realize that they ALL took up arms against the government of the United States and by ANY definition of the term they qualify as traitors. “
Substitute ‘United Kingdom’ for ‘United States’ and you have a description that fits George Washington and every other Colonial British subject who took up arms against the Royal government.
It’s funny how South-haters get all puffed up over Americans fighting against Lincoln’s government but somehow have no objection to Americans fighting against the established government of 90 years earlier.
I am unimpressed with your tagline - expecially since you don’t pay attention to it.
You were wrong to accuse me - and you’re too arrogant (with scant reason) to acknowledge it.
“read my tagline, read my tagline” PFFFFFFFFFT!
“Look mommy! Look what I said!!!”
You have no integrity, I have no interest
What proof is there that Forest was a founding member (or a memeber at all), as has been claimed? This subject is very much in dispute.
I am moved by the remarks of Nathan Bedford Forrest in
Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest's
Farewell Address To His Troops
Headquarters, Forrest's Cavalry Corps
Gainsville, Alabama
May 9, 1865My line lost an ancestor killed at Little Anna April 25, 1864.
My line also provided a soldier to fight the aforementioned King George, who pressed on.
I note Lincoln and Forrest acknowledged the dedication of the men who fought for a cause.
Leave the revision of history to the airbrush of Stalin and the genocide of the PRC in Tibet.
We here share a common enemy, the traitor in the White House.
600,000 men in that conflict, sixty thousand in Vietnam, there can be no victory without honoring their sacrifice--
--something the extant POTUS serially insults.
I have been challenging the other side to abide by a consistent use of a singular argumentative standard for years, but all I have ever gotten in return is an incoherent stream of emotional gotchas. Should I be surprised that the other side argues just EXAXCTLY like leftists, when their premises and conclusions are also those of the left?
“I understand that the utilities were split up and sold to companies outside of the state.”
No, good ole Memphis Light Gas & Water still under one roof. Our prior Mayor tried to get through the City Council to sell them out, but didn’t make it. Memphis still has the best water around (artisian wells).
“No, good ole Memphis Light Gas & Water still under one roof.”
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That is nice to know, but it may be only a matter of time.
I have not been in Memphis, or the USSA, in over ten years.
It was on some internet blurb where I heard that the MLG&W
had been busted up and sold off.
Yes, I am quite familiar with Memphis water.
As a kid, born in Memphis, I spent a number of snow days over at the water-works (Sheahan pumping station)
It was the favorite location for sledding...over fifty years ago.
the real tragedy here is that you actually believe what you wrote. Tsk, tsk, no real history to back you up just books written by people that want to perpetuate a myth.
Yea, let’s substitute that. Washington, Franklin, et. al. were under a sentence of death by hanging. As traitors to the Crown. Just as Washington would have been hung if the French hadn’t come in to the war so should all southerners who took up arms against the federal government have been hung as traitors. Perhaps if that had happened we wouldn’t be reliving it today with some people actually defending Jeff Davis. I guess you are a fan of Benedict Arnold too?
My God ! What fantasy world do you live in? The Klan “disbanded”? Did you read that in a David Duke text?
Yes, I would if I were British. The difference is Washington WON! The losers pay the price so yes, Jeff Davis should have been hung.
Fact is you are ignorant in the worst way. You know not and are not even wanting to better educate yourself.
“As a kid, born in Memphis, I spent a number of snow days over at the water-works (Sheahan pumping station)
It was the favorite location for sledding...over fifty years ago.”
Don’t know if your interested or not, but WKNO TV Channel 10 Puble TV Station has a great set of DVD’s that show the history of Memphis (Features Overton Park, Downtown Memphis, Shelby County Penal Farm (which is now a 5,000 acres county park), a number of other areas. Great entertainment!
“Don’t know if your interested or not, but WKNO TV Channel 10 Puble TV Station has a great set of DVD’s that show the history of Memphis”
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Thanks for the info, but for me, those days are
“gone with the wind”.
I was born there in 1944, but will not die there.
My father was a Main street merchant when I was born.
I am now an expat since 2000, but I do have a daughter living in Memphis.
“Yea, let’s substitute that. Washington, Franklin, et. al. were under a sentence of death by hanging. As traitors to the Crown.”
So evidently you think that Washington et al should have been hanged as traitors, seeing as you think that would have been proper for the next generation of rebels. Or is logical consistency something that you choose to ignore?
“I guess you are a fan of Benedict Arnold too?”
For his role at the Battle of Saratoga, absolutely. He led the rebel army to victory.
At the end of reconstruction, it officially disbanded.
It re-emerged later.
I’m getting sick and tired of sanctimonious Yankees blaming my people for doing what they had to do in order to survive.
Run along. You can ponder child labor in Northern factories if you need something to feel morally indignant about.
Nope - he was the leader of a seperate country by the time the war started. Enemy head of state.
This is particularly important to a country that was created by declaring itself independent from its sovereign.
Got any names for that assertion?
Except secession at pleasure was not legal. Secession without assent from the Union was not legal. Therefore, they had not seceded.
And after that, they began a war to go along with their treason,which they lost.
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