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To: groanup
You infer that my ancestor was a traitor.

Awwwwwwww. Poor little you gets offended because someone HYPOTHISISES a situation where a student comes to the same school mentioned in this article with a shirt accusing Confederates of being traitors.

If you had an ounce intellectual honesty, you'd be able to comprehend that this is EXACTLY analagous to a black parent/student seeing the Confederate flag and viewing it entirely as a symbol of slavery and oppression.

Given your reaction, I'm betting you're incapable of making this comparison.

However, you should be able to conclude that other people are just as incapable of viewing the Confederate flag as a 140 year old symbol of the struggle for States rights.

267 posted on 01/06/2006 4:29:36 PM PST by Diplomat
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To: Diplomat

You can kiss this descendent of traitor's ass, buttwipe.


270 posted on 01/06/2006 4:44:08 PM PST by wardaddy (feel the love)
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To: Diplomat
There are honorable people who have ancestors on both sides of the WBTS. It was a grievous time in the history of our nation. The idea of brother taking arms against brother is at once the most noble of causes and the most tragic. When men feel so strongly about an idea, a country, a consitution that they are willing to sacrafice their fortunes and families and their lives we should pay attention.

The men on both sides of this conflict were the same. The most noble and genuine people who ever inhabited the earth. The Judeo_Christian culture that proved its bona-fides for the next hundred and fifty years.

Slavery was the abomination of the time. But neither North nor South saw it as a humane issue, they saw it as an economic issue. They considered themselves humane operators of the insitution, right or wrong that they were.

Your sniveling about hypothesizing is disingenuous. You have inferred often about the T-shirt propoganda and your inference is that MY ancestors were traitors. Well, my friend. You could also be called a traitor. If you'll read (you can read can't you, well of course you can you obviously can type but that doesn't mean you can think) the Declaration of Independence it states that a government that becomes oppressive should be overthrown.

What did the South do? They didn't even overthrow. They opted out. And you and your ignorant brethren have taken one issue, slavery, and made it the reason for a four year war of vast and universal consequences. No conflict so long and vast and tragic as that could be about one issue of political decision. It is like saying that WWII was about Japanese planes.

297 posted on 01/06/2006 7:27:13 PM PST by groanup (Shred for Ian)
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