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Boston Bombing Suspects Planned July 4th Attacks, Were Inspired by Al-Awlaki

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Romantic Heretic5/03/2013 8:47:14 am PDT

re: #215 kirkspencer

This, of all the things mentioned, is actually in the South Carolina Declaration that explains their decision to secede.

I’d like to say it all boils down to slavery. But in reality it’s the Tea Party excuse: “We have the right to do what we want and you (the federal government and the other states) have to let us do it even if you do outnumber us.” In this case what they wanted was slaves.

This is why I believe that even if the South had won, the Confederacy was still doomed. Any nation founded on the idea of, “If I don’t wanna, I don’t haveta!” cannot last very long.

The first time, say, Louisiana and Mississippi have a disagreement and the Confederacy decides one way or another or tries to compromise, one or both states will give the Confederacy the finger and take off on their own.

Within twenty years of the end of the war the Confederacy would have resembled Somalia. The North could then walk in and pick up the pieces. Or just let them stew. Running the South in a case like that might be more problem than it’s worth.