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"I once suggested leading Wlat by way of John Locke into David Hume for the purpose of exacerbating his tendency to behave irrationally. The idea was to drop him off in the middle of a skeptic's wasteland, thus prompting him to question his own perception of reality."

Brilliant! Truly the quote of the month! I saved that one on my computer. A most wonderful use of words and mental imagery.

Have you ever wondered how they can go on and on playing the slavery card when the Northern Unionist military and government immediately set about on a campaign of GENOCIDE against the Plains Indians in the years after the WBTS? The very generals, leaders, and soldiers they laud as "champions of equality and freedom" were planning, organising, and carrying out a campaign of delberate GENOCIDE. The whole thing makes these neo-unionist extremists seem somewhat "less than genuine" in their professed beliefs. The hypocrisy of their position is unfathomable.

These massacres were the blackest mark on our history. I can admit that unlike you who can't admit that slavery was the reason for secession.

The very generals, leaders, and soldiers they laud as "champions of equality and freedom" were planning, organising, and carrying out a campaign of delberate GENOCIDE.

I've never lauded them as champions of equality and freedom. I've always said most Northerners supported the war to preserve the union. The Radical Republicans did fight for equality and freedom though.

The whole thing makes these neo-unionist extremists seem somewhat "less than genuine" in their professed beliefs. The hypocrisy of their position is unfathomable.

You're making things up again, par for the course for you neo-Confederates. I've never claimed that the North's main purpose in the Civil War was to end slavery.

? The very generals, leaders, and soldiers they laud as "champions of equality and freedom" were planning, organising, and carrying out a campaign of delberate GENOCIDE. The whole thing makes these neo-unionist extremists seem somewhat "less than genuine" in their professed beliefs.

Absolutely. It is for reasons such as these that Lysander Spooner, the great legal philosopher of the abolitionists, denounced their claims to have abolished slavery and saved the union as a "sham" and a "fraud." The abolition of slavery that Spooner spent his life seeking was attained after the war. Yet he denounced it because it was so sinfully achieved and by such tyrannical means. That speaks volumes about those who claim The Lincoln was a morally guided emancipator and friend of liberty.

My amazement with this #3fan fellow continues all the more. He makes Wlat look...well...normal! All I can say is that the guy is an incoherent and raving kook.

Check out his latest little charade on Karl Marx. The guy seems to seriously believe that when Marx spoke of the "an era of ascendency..for the working class" and the "reconstruction of the social world" he was making a compassionate plea for better working conditions.

On a similar note, I suppose he believes that "workers of the world, unite!" was a call by Marx for all the factory workers to take a day off for a casual day of picnicking and games at the park. Surely Marx couldn't have been saying "go launch a communist revolution," could he? And surely that "era of ascendency...for the working class" he was talking about couldn't have been an era of communism, could it? At least not in the foreign mental universe of #3fan's disconnected mind...