I said the people who fought on both sides of the Civil War
were honorable people. Some blacks fought for the South.
I've never been a "redneck with a Confederate flag" on my
car. I do not have any desire to own slaves, but I don't
have any false ideas about why slavery existed either.


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The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties.


"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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| Recently, Jim Macklin
posted:
|
| Importation of slaves was illegal in the USA after 1807,
but
| ownership was still legal. The South's economy was
based on
| hand labor agriculture, cotton. A lot of white people
| fought and died to free the slaves. A lot of
Southerners
| fought and died to preserve their life-style. Both were
| honorable.
|
| So, you believe it is honorable to fight and die to
preserve the ability
| to own people as property?
|
| But slavery was still wrong and it ceased to be
| the same after 1865. But there was still economic
"slavery"
| for many people working for low wages in company towns,
| buying food and clothes at the company store on credit.
|
| There is no similarity between the slavery of blacks and
the "economic
| slavery" that you describe. Those working for low wages in
company towns
| are not deemed the property of the company, with no
individual rights.
| They could not be hunted and killed for leaving town for
better
| circumstances.
|
| Laws change, society changes, hopefully for the better.
We
| should remember the past, so we don't continue to make
the
| same mistakes, but we must get over the anger and
personal
| feelings about what happened 50, 100, 150, 500, 2000
years
| ago.
|
| The problem is that many of those mistakes -- particularly
the mindset of
| priviledge -- are still being made today, and that is what
angers people
| in the present.
|
| Neil
|
|
|