Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Boomer
Back in the day when the "militias" were big on the news, they interviewed this guy from the "Michigan Militia". He said, "There has never in the history of the United States been an armed insurrection against the government!". What? What about the Civil War?
These guys are, for the most part, ignorant of reality.
Not to split hairs, but if the south had been allowed to secede peacefully with their ratifications done at their conventions by seemingly due process, then there would not have been armed anything. Seems it was the US that caused the armed part.
Not advocating secession, and perhaps my memory is poor, but it doesn't strike me that the south was the aggressor.
It's actually not splitting hairs. The south never sought to over throw the United States Government, but merely to create their own nation in a region of largely likeminded people. Those that weren't like minded refused to join the Confederacy, (hence the "Free State of Winston County" in the great State of Alabama and of course, that whole new state called "West Virginia" which ironically was the birthplace of Stonewall Jackson). While there were many in the north who felt the south should be allowed to leave, (let erring sisters depart), there were enough in government who felt the union should not be divided, hence the reason some call it "The War of Northern Aggression."
