Did the Confederacy Ever Fight Against Terrorism?
I always try my best to understand how other people think, but sometimes I can't help but feel dumbfounded by those hard core Confederates.
Living in the South, I hear frequent discussion on the news and in the papers about whether the Confederate flag should be displayed in the Mississippi State flag and what the flag truly symbolizes to different groups of people. To tell you the truth, seeing the flag has never bothered me all that much because it's a part of America's history that should not be forgotten. Today, however, I saw the Confederate flag in a context that I truly did not understand, and I'm still trying to grasp the concept.While I was sitting in the Arby's drive thru, the truck in front of me had a Tennessee license plate with a Confederate flag on it that said, "Sons of Confederate Veterans," and a bumper sticker that said, "The Confederacy, Fighting Terrorism Since 1861." Now, I've heard a lot of interpretations of the Confederate flag before, but I never heard of it being used in the fight against terrorism. I just can not understand how anyone could ever believe that the Confederacy, an institution that promoted terror in the lives of nearly every minority and minority supporter, fought against terrorism.
Searching for an answer to this mystery, I went home and asked my all knowing, all powerful mother what the bumper sticker meant her. Sometimes it's amazing to get the opinion of the older generation, because to her the bumper made complete sense. She said without even batting an eye that the supporters of the Confederacy believed that the United States government and it's officials were terrorists that unjustly tried to change the Southern way of life and their culture.
I am still so frustrated by this idea, because it makes sense how Confederate lovers mourn the lost of true Southern culture, but can they really expect any sympathy from anyone. When your beloved way of life condones inhumane acts such as slavery and lynching, I don't believe you have the right to tell the enforcer of human rights that they are terrorists.
It's hard to believe that people still have the balls to put their own skewed spin on the civil war. Haven't we all decided that morally speaking that the Union was right and the Confederacy was wrong? Clearly, it's an issue that's still up for debate as evidenced by the tailgate propaganda of my fellow American.
Made in Kendra @ 9:56 PM
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Isn't this like the amount of countries that believe America is wrong for going into Iraq? Because they don't understand? Now please don't yell at me, I'm not trying to start a war or terrorist debate. It's just all a case of perspective isn't it? Sadly there are people who still believe slavery is fine, and even people who though they claim to not be raciest, will not hesitate to stereotype someone due to their race. Society isn't as nearly evolved as it likes to think, some are less evolved than the rest. I'm not claiming to understand why someone would want to hold onto such beliefs, I'm just thinking about it from the perspective of someone who knows what it's like to watch their culture die.
I think the point may be that many Confederates feel the civil war was fought to retain America as it was founded.
America was originally a group of 13 separate countries (or states) joined for self defense. From that view the "war of Northern Aggression" (civil war) that was lost, was the loss of America.
Moving forward, today we very loosely define terrorism as any attempt to change a government by violence.
Many would agree that while Sherman's march to the sea was effective, it was practiced violently against civilians, and fits todays definition of terrorism.
Add those views to someone that feels their "real America" is still forcefully held hostage by "foreign elements," - a strong federal system.
To someone of an extreme state's rights persuasion; everything against a strong central government, including the Whiskey Rebellion (1794 against the troops of George Washington) and on, may be considered a fight against terrorism. By todays flexible definition anyway.
And then again maybe they just like the sound of the words.
Confederates have no purpose, so they have to make up some.
You are getting yourself worked up for nothing. Just because some dumb a$$ put up a slogan in his license plate, you don't have to lose sleep over it.
I once saw somebody strolling New York's Fifth ave wearing a cap that said "Jihad for President", to match his t-shirt that said "kill whitey".
word!
A good read. I'm looking for info on the civil war and anything related to it.
Regards,
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Euharlee
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I’m from New York. Despite this fact, I still have the intellectual integrity to call things as I see them. History is written by the victors, even if it diverges from the truth. That sticker actually speaks volumes if you understand the subtext. Too many so called “intellectuals” in this region are pathetically ignorant of the facts. The civil war was an unconstitutional invasion of the confederate states after Lincoln unconstitutionally suspended Habeas Corpus. The Supreme Court later ruled as such. Emancipation of the slaves was never the primary goal at the outset, but became the galvanizing cause late in the war (after the Union suffered incredible attrition at the hands of the superior Confederate Army generals and tactics).
The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism. In fact, many abolitionists fought in for the Confederacy. General Thomas Stonewall Jackson himself was opposed to slavery, but fought against the Union because he opposed Federal intrusion on States rights. That is the terrorism.
it's amazing how many lies are taught to be truths about the CSA, let's start with the fact that when the Confederate States of America constitution was ratified it banned the foreign slave trade entirely & gave the counties within the state's of the confederacy the right to abolish slavery which the majority did & this was done before the emancipation proclamation, secondly the vast majority of black soldiers who fought for the CSA did so as FREE men & did so on their own accord unlike those in the union army who were forced into service. As for the fighting terrorism goes that's real simple soldiers of the union murdered anyone that wouldn't aid them raped southern women & burned homes & farmsteads so what else can you call people who invade others homes, burn farms homes & crops to ash, rape women and children who weren't involved in the war & murdered the men who chose not to fight in the war & aid the union the only thing you can call Yankees are TERRORISTS, & everything that I just pointed out are historically documented facts
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