Posted on 11/27/2018 3:32:30 PM PST by C19fan
Beto ORourke is calling for the removal of a controversial Confederate plaque hanging in the Texas State Capitol building, tweeting on Tuesday to take it down today. The plaque contains the Children of the Confederacys creed, which is a statement that pledges to study and teach the truths of history (one of the most important of which is, that the War between the States was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery).
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Beto Nacho Senator.
So you want to take it down too!!!!!!
Im sick of revisionist history and people who espouse it!!!!!
Beto has latched onto the most important issue facing the country today! /s
BTW, is is now Robert Francis "Beaten" O'Rourke.
"lighten up Francis"
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Anything for attention. Ignore him.
Will that make the Civil War go away, schmuck?
They keep trying to convince us that smacked butt Beto is one of the Kennedys. As if the whole country is still in love with the Kennedys. That rabbit died long ago with all of the subsequent actions and activities of the long living Teddy and the young Kennedys, who, I am sorry, do not seem too bright.
If it was a rebelion why didn’t Lee send an assassin.
What are the odds his next “demand” is to return the land that is Texas back to Mexico?
Nonsense. The plaque is based on the idea that the South could not be wrong. It pledges its supporters to ignore, dismiss or vilify opposing opinions because it's unbearable that slavery could have been a cause of secession and civil war. Maybe C19fan's opinion -- in contrast to the Children of the Confederacy's -- is actually based on facts and evidence.
The only Kennedys that had anything between their ears was Joe, Robert & possibly Joe jr. JFK’s supposed intellectual achievements were almost entirely ghostwritten. (I used to remember that guys name!)
Okay, Let’s do it this way for a change. Tell me WHY did the north fight the Civil War?
But why did South Carolina and the other Deep South states secede?
Beto is moving to Lousiana and is going to change his name to Beteaux
“PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEE!”
I have read that. There are actually quotes by Lincoln that support that view. Of course, Lincoln was on record as supporting secession too.
There was also a statement - made by Lincoln at Gettysburg - that implied the war was fought by the North for the purpose of equality. It was understood at the time Lincoln was referring not to equality between men and women, but equality between free men and slaves. This was controversial in the North and South.
And too, the North had imposed confiscatory taxation on imports which had a disparate impact on the South. For some reason the South didn't like confiscatory taxation.
To say Southern soldiers, some of which owned slaves, were fighting to preserve slavery is like saying U.S. soldiers in the Jim-Crow era army went ashore on D-Day “to preserve segregation.”
“...The only Kennedys that had anything between their ears was Joe, Robert & possibly Joe jr. JFKs supposed intellectual achievements were almost entirely ghostwritten. (I used to remember that guys name!)...”
Ted Sorenson was one along with touches from Arthur Schlesinger, Pierre Salinger, John Kenneth Galbraith and others. JFK could write some on his own and understood the importance of word play, double talk, and playing up to opposing sides.
Appointing RFK as the Attorney General of the United States should have brought on lots of flak. The press was so sycophantic and/or bought and paid for that JFK got away with much that Nixon could not dare to do.
Self determination. In addition, the largest contributing factor was ending the north raping them financially. This is why the north wanted to "preserve the union". They had a cash cow that they were taking advantage of and didn't want to give it up. The South had a right to chart it's own coarse and had decided to do so. They had no plans to invade the North or tell the North what to do. The North forced it's will upon the South through the provocation at Ft. Sumter and the following military invasion and 12 year occupation. Those are the facts. North good, South Bad. Yea, right.
The vast majority of the Confederate Army were everyday people who did not own slaves but they were brave and courageous enough to DEFEND their homeland against foreign invaders. That their children would wish to honor their courage on a plaque is a noble act of remembrance. The true cowards are those who would today deny them that right.
1984 squared = 3,936,256
Put it on a plaque and hang it up somewhere. Then, perhaps after reading conflicting plaques, folks who care enough would research the issue and learn the actual truth rather than an ill-informed one-sided version. Can't your view of things stand up to competition?
“...Ted Sorenson was one along with touches from Arthur Schlesinger, ”
Thanks I knew is was Ted something!
Sorenson was the one that did almost all if not all of JFK’s supposed intellectual writing. Its even suspected Sorenson wrote JFK’s senior Harvard thesis.
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