ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
ORIGINAL: Aurelian
ORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1
But to who? Depending upon your viewpoint the Stars and Stripes are a flag of treason, no?
Depends on who won the war I suppose.
Gee, I guess that means Pol Pot was right.
Since no one rose to the challenge, let’s assume that the ridiculous idea that right and wrong are determined by which side won has been abandoned. What a Medieval notion: Guilt or innocence determined by mortal combat!
So, if the Confederacy was committing treason, then the American Revolutionaries were, too.
Of course, neither was. To commit treason a minimum requirement is to be an avowed member of the country being transgressed. So, for example, should I openly and officially disavow my US citizenship (a common legal occurrence) and affirm loyalty to a new country – say Britain – then, from that point forward, nothing I do can constitute treason against the US. From then on I could only commit treason against Britain.
The Confederacy openly avowed its separation from the US before any hostile acts were taken. So, the Confederacy could not have been committing treason. (Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of the American Revolutionaries. Hostile acts had been going on long before the Declaration of Independence).
And this is confirmed by the fact that its captured soldiers were treated as prisoners-of-war and none of its leaders were even charged with treason, much less convicted and hanged. Many were denied re-admission as citizens – a literal admission that their disavowment of US allegiance had been valid.
So, can we finally put this monumentally stupid canard to rest?
