Oh, so I am a liar?
People do have a life away from the computer. Really, they do!
Tonight I have been with my family.
Maybe I can backtrack and give you a minute-by-minute schedule of my activities since 5:00 P.M. EST when I left work.
Can you honestly say that the Confederacy is the moral equivalent of totalitarian regimes such as:
"Napoleon's France for most of a decade, ...Japan in 1931, Germany in 1939, and Russia after World War II"?
As some say around here, "that dog won't hunt".
I believe that the Confederacy was merely fighting for their freedom, and for states' rights.
The states comprising the CSA were sovereign, and responding to invasion by the North.
They were sovereign states as spelled out in the Constitution, a document that has suffered injury, if not yet total death, from a thousand cuts since 1861.
If the author wants to equate anyone with despotic madmen such as Napoleon, Hitler and various members of the Japanese military, it should indeed be a leader from 1861... Abraham Lincoln.
He, along with various Supreme Courts and other Presidents who consider the Constitution a "living" document, have done so much damage to this constitutional republic.
I pray this damage is not irreparable.
That having been said, the rest of this article is actually very good.
Perhaps I wasn't clear about that before. I don't claim to be right all the time or even most.
However, that one sentence (see my #57) took the wind out of the author's argument for me.
I'm going to bed as soon as I get through paying bills, if that's acceptable to you.
Hope the rest of your evening goes well.
CD