[pawdoggie]

And to educate you just a little: "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Thus be it ever to TYRANTS) is the state motto of Virginia.......... To educate you a little, I know the state motto of Virginia; neither you nor Booth (Maryland) are Virginians, so you weren't merely quoting your state's motto (and we all know how keen you are on your state and its rights). At first I thought you might just be clowning around with your "Lincoln is a tyrant who got what was coming to him" rant. Now I can see that you are serious.

I've travelled extensively in Europe, and I've met families there who lost members of their immediate family to American and Allied bombing. They don't hold a grudge like that you claim to hold against Lincoln for depredations he never personally visited upon your "relatives" a century and a half ago. What you try to use as justification for your attitude is an excuse, not an explanation. It is certainly unChristian (unless you are a "Christian Identity/Aryan Nation" type), and irrational. You need immediate professional counseling. You're right when you say that I don't know your parents, and shouldn't comment on how they raised you. I will say with conviction, however, that if (notice the conditional tense) your parents raised you to believe that Lincoln should have been killed in 1860 in order to preserve the old slave-holding South, then you were sired by Satan and hatched by Vulture.

[TexConfederate1861]

OK...you seem to enjoy insulting me, so I will try to explain this one more time:

I am DEAD serious, when I state the following: If Lincoln had been shot in 1861, I believe the South & North would have worked out their differences, and slavery would have ended peacefully, though later on. I am dead serious of all I accuse Lincoln of in regards to being a tyrant.

Don't patronise me or insult my intelligence with your petty little Yankee ad hominem attacks. My parents taught me not to believe everything that is in history books, especially when those books were written by the winning side......I have an aunt who survived the bombing of Trieste by the British and let me tell you, she holds one hell of a grudge. I am very much a Christian, (mainstream), and have no desire for a "slaveholding" South, as you call it. I can love my country, and STILL deplore the acts of a tyrant. If you can't understand that, then it is indeed YOU that need help. And as for assasinations, our own Federal Government has been known to employ that remedy from time to time, so don't give me the hogwash about it being immoral. Open your eyes, and look at the truth. You won't find it in a textbook.