Originally posted by Magnetic Poles:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by OldRegular:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Magnetic Poles:
Why am I not surprised that OR thinks the KKK was ever a legitimate organization rather than a terrorist group.
MP you only show your ignorance of history. You might try reading a little history about the treatment of the South after the War of Northern Agression. After WW1 Germany was treated like the South was, the result was WWII. If we had treated Japan and Germany after WWII like the South was treated after the War of Northern Agression Iraq would look like a picnic in comparison. </font>[/QUOTE]Pot, meet kettle!
You show ignorance in stating the KKK was not a terrorist group. Yes, the states of the Confederacy were treated harshly. That was never a point of this discussion. However, if you can get past YOUR ignorance of history, it wasn't a war of northern aggression. It was the southern states who seceeded, it was the southern states that started the war against the legitimate federal government. If you feel this way, why in heaven's name would you ever consider being loyal to the U.S., who defeated your precious CSA? Are you a coward who cowtows to your oppressive conquerors? Stand up and fight, boy! Fight for General Lee, Fight for the blessed South and her right to exit the federal union.
</font>[/QUOTE]Speaking of ignorance, you should consider thyself.
Try some serious reading of the primary sources written by men who were part of the events and wrote from first-hand information and experience. As a young boy growning up in the South, I read countless volumes of such works in a well stocked library of works from the post-war era. It was not the revisionist history penned by twentieth century liberal historians with an agenda. I doubt that you have ever read works by Alexander Stephens and Robert Toombs. Have you ever read Jefferson Davis's speeches and works? You just can't trust your revisionist elementary school history since Charles and Mary Beard. BTW, after the war, historians from both sides knew that the war was not fought over slavery. This was simply a perpherial issue used to villify the South when the war was going badly with the Yankees. It was Yankee propaganda in its day but it passes as history today. (Mr. Lincoln was a racist by modern definition who did not believe the Negro to be equal with Whites.)
If you were really a serious history student, then you would know that the ideals embodied in the American Revolution were the same ideals resulting in secession and are perpetrated by Southern conservatives today. It was the radical and shrewd Lincoln who violated the Constitution by overriding state legislatures and the will of the people. It was this commsumate politican who did numerous unconstitional acts to prevent the border states from seceding.
Furthermore, there are tens of thousands Southern patriots who love and defend our homeland. We don't buy your materialism and smug attitudes. We still hold to our ideals of virtue, integrity, individual liberty, self-determination in governament and righteousness over any temporal considerations of self, comfort or wealth. There are 30,000 Sons of Confederate Veterans today who are dedicated to upholding the good name of the Confederate fighting men. The League of the South with its thousands is committed to Southern ideals along with hundreds of smaller cultural groups. They have been falsely malaligned as racists but they are good men who still believe in old-fashioned principles of goodness and liberty.
These groups still have political clout in the South as demonstrated in the last SC senate campaign that sent turncoat David Beasley, the leading candidate, back home to Society Hill and send regionally popular son, Jim DeMint, to Washington, DC.
Now, go and read some serious history and perhaps we can have some real dialogue. Otherwise, you may open your mouth to change feet.