[eDebate] PJ & Duaney: tirelessly jerking phalluses

[Kevin Sanchez]

under the Constitution, every state has a right of secession from the union, 
or else that union is nothing more than a federated tyranny. though opposed 
to the conquest of Mexican territory (aforementioned 'Polk's war'), Abraham 
Lincoln was nevertheless a dictator: he suspended trial-by-jury, he hung 
dissidents, he shut down abolitionist newspapers, he used emergency clauses 
to consolidate federal power, and yes, he invaded another sovereign nation.

all that said, had i been alive at the time, i would've supported John Brown 
and Harriet Tubman strategies to free the slaves, because that's what was 
most important. Lincoln and many Northerners were willing to do whatever was 
necessary, including supporting the nefarious Fugutive Slave Act, to save 
the union - even if it meant not freeing the slaves in the four crucial 
border-states (which the Emancipation Proclamation refrained from doing).

so as should be obvious to any real student of history, the American civil 
war was not fought over slavery, but over state's rights, a war of Northern 
aggression in which hundreds of thousands of Americans died in vain. the USA 
today is a worse place because the South lost, and i'm tired of elitist 
Yanks suggesting otherwise. if you think for a second that immigrant 
factory-workers in the North were treated any better than slaves, you're 
sorely mistaken.

as a neither-here-nor-there comment, everyone should watch the HBO special 
in which black actors recite the Slave Narratives - a chilling potrait of a 
barbaric institution carried out by people just like you and i. (what other 
enslavements are we complicit in today? i wonder, i wonder. aren't millions 
of blacks still in chains and executed by the state?)
       .k


----Original Message Follows----
From: Christopher Cooper <ccooper at planning.org>
To: 'Kevin Sanchez' <let_the_american_empire_burn at hotmail.com>, 
edebate at ndtceda.com, cx-l at debate.net
Subject: RE: [eDebate] PJ & Duaney: tirelessly jerking phalluses
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:45:54 -0600

"the war of Northern aggression..."  ???

Whodda thunk Kevin Sanchez would ever sound like the octagenerian
politicians of the deep south.

I do declayuh...

COOP

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