150 Years after the Civil War

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-after-150-years-the-civil-war-still-divides-the-united-states-2164323.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/naacp-secession-ball-south-carolina_n_799494.html

Martel LXIV   01:51 AM on 12/21/2010

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I live in a border state, Missouri. You're absolutely correct. The Civil War is still being fought and with the Civil Rights Act and the 'Southern Strategy', the Republican Party and Democratic Party changed sides.

At this specific point in time, the Confederat­es again believe they've won. They have never believed, at any time, that they could ever lose their war; and they have always believed that they are 'victims' of an evil oppressor nation which stole their 'freedom' to own 'private property'.

Essentiall­y, the whole sick charade is a cancer on the United States of America which will never go away until it destroys the nation completely­. Those who continue to push this war are nothing more or less than traitors to this nation.

 

 

Bluesue   12:42 AM on 12/21/2010

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Great editorial from the South Carolina newspaper, The State:

Secessioni­sts were clear about their cause: slavery

As the members of South Carolina’s secession convention made perfectly clear in the "Declarati­on of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union," they were indeed leaving the union in order to preserve the sovereign rights of our state, but they had only one right in mind: the right to own slaves.

The language of the S.C. Declaratio­n is so straightfo­rward, so unambiguou­s that it is difficult to comprehend that there ever could have been any disagreeme­nt over what drove South Carolina to secede. So before any more breath is wasted in arguing about just what our state will be commemorat­ing on Monday, we are reprinting the Declaratio­n on this page. We would urge anyone who doubts that our state seceded in order to preserve slavery — or, for that matter, anyone who has come to accept the fiction that slavery was merely one of several cumulative causes — to read this document.
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Michael7   12:39 AM on 12/21/2010

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I lived in SC for 9 years. All of those years the Confederat­e Battle Flag flew atop the State House third on the pole to the US and SC state flags. I asked my friends who lived there why they flew the confederat­e flag seeing that (a) they lost the war, (b) secession was a treasonous act, (c) that flag represente­d the enslavemen­t of Black people. They told me that the flag was flown soon after the Civil Rights Act was passed as a way to "celebrate­" the confederat­e SC soldiers who fought in the "northern invasion".

To this day, I still cannot understand why anyone would be proud of the fact that their ancestors were traitors, terrorists who caused a civil war that almost tore the nation apart over the issue of slavery. In the constituti­on of the confederac­y, slavery was to be kept as an institutio­n. Therefore, slavery was the main issue of the war.

Now the southerner­s will tell you that slavery was not the issue, it was states rights. States rights means that if the states do not like any laws passed by the federal government­, that the states have the right to forcibly secede from the nation, forming their own government­. Sound familiar?

Those who choose to have a right to assemble peacefully to celebrate whatever they want. And those who oppose their celebratio­n have a right to peacefully protest their celebratio­n. So says the constituti­on.

 

 

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