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To: Jim Scott
One's life does not have to be boring or unrewarding to resent an injustice that took place to one's people. If you are not aware of this, simply speak to a descendant of a Holocaust victim. That hurt will probably be remembered at least as long as the Holocaust that Sherman visited upon the defenseless citizenry of the South. It is easy to sit back and mock those whose hurts have not healed, but I wonder where you have trashed your humanity.

Although the article faults Lincoln for his actions in destroying the US Constitution by invalidating the sovereignty of the states, it is not "Anti-Lincoln." We do not want to fight the War Between the States again; we have learned that going up against the American Empire is a losing proposition. However, in the same way that Holocaust victims and their descendants will continue to broadcast the sins of Adolf Hitler and his henchmen, Southerners will continue to point out the ACTIONS of Lincoln which were contrary to the US Constitution and the Bible upon which this country was founded.

Neo-Nazis are rising again and preaching their anti-Semitism. Anti-Southernism is state policy promulgated by deceptive history books. It is sad to see conservatives so rigid in their defense of the destroyers of the US Constitution.

96 posted on 06/17/2002 9:56:43 PM PDT by Piper George
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To: Piper George
It is easy to sit back and mock those whose hurts have not healed, but I wonder where you have trashed your humanity.

Oh please, drop the drama.
My humanity is in fine shape thanks and sympathizes with all of the Civil war dead, not just southerners, unlike your 'humanity' which appears to see only one side as worthy of sympathy or respect.

If modern day Jews are still lamenting the holocaust and complaining about Hitler in another eighty years (2082) your defense of the endless diatribes against Abe Lincoln and the finger-pointing at governments gone for almost 140 years from the folks who comprise the anti-Lincoln, pro-south Civil War fanatics may carry some weight. Right now it just looks like a bunch of pointless and unproductive complaining about a war finished and a president dead over 137 years with little real purpose except to pick at a grievience you chose to adopt from your ancestors and make part of your identity.

As I doubt Jewish decendents of Holocaust survivors will get a lot of real sympathy for ranting about Hitler in 2083, the anti-north, anti-Lincoln rants are just about as welcome. Enough already. People suffered and a nation was torn asunder but that was then, this is now and as we cannot change the past, we cannot fel any better about it by rehashing it every day and getting angry and hostile about matters settled and done and people dead and moulding in their graves for well over a hundred years. Nothing changes and no one is served except to harbor and nurture a pointless anger and contempt.

Like blacks that still complain about slavery, the anti-Lincoln, pro-confederate south rants are tiresome and have little relevance to todays American citizens, so don't expect a lot of sympathy for you definition of 'humanity'. From the serfs and peasants of europe that immigrated to America to the black slaves of brought here against their will, we all have a distant past that could be hurtful if we chose to dwell on it and make it our hobby. We do not. Life goes on, improves, changes and the past dies.

Looking back at your history is one thing, making past arguments and even a civil war the focus of the rest of your life is pointless, tedious and probably unhealthy.

145 posted on 06/18/2002 9:45:58 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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