I re-read my post and agree with your assessment about the personal attacks being inappropriate. I apologize to anyone who read that version of the response. I have just edited out what I supposed to be the personally offensive aspects of my blogpost.

I hope that this is satisfactory.

I would appreciate any rebuttal to my post based on reason and evidence.

Also, I have read several references to Prof. Lafantasie’s knowledge of William Oates and the battle of Little Round Top. I also posted on the 15th Alabama, and solicit any opinions in response to the information there.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

http://thebonnieblueblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-south-rationalizes-secession-its.html

While I think that the Tea Partiers have usurped the label patriot for their own means, you’re dead wrong about this. I agree with Glenn because he’s right. End of story.

It’s the right of any people to determine their own course…forcing states to stay within a union the states object to is, in itself, tantamount to enforced subjugation. And before one makes the link from states to the slaves, slavery was wrong. Period. Even when Brazil was doing it as late as 1883 or as is still being practiced in Sudan (or in the North (ummm…hello, Delaware) under that fraudulent Emancipation Proclamation)