Posted by
KsReaganite on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:17:53 PM
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the first
shots fired in the Civil War: on this day in 1861, South Carolina’s rebellious
state forces fired on the American flag flying over the United States garrison
at Fort Sumter. The non-PC version of the historical trigger to Fort Sumter is
fairly straightforward: some people in South Carolina and other states
simply couldn’t stand the fact that a seemingly unsophisticated country lawyer
from an upstart political party had been elected President of the United States
fair and square under our Constitution. As a retort, some such upset folks
decided to take up arms against their legitimately elected national government.
There is a word for that in the United States Constitution, a word that begins
with the letter ‘t’.
Call me zealot when it comes to the flag and the Union but an
American who takes up arms against the United States and deliberately fires on
the Old Glory is a traitor, pure and simple. Whether his name is Jose Padilla, Yasser
Hamdi, Robert E. Lee, or Jeb Stuart doesn’t matter.
No wonder I hate the term “War between the States” and
dislike the morally equivalent moniker “Civil
War”. Truth be told, it was the war to put down open treason and armed rebellion
against the United States. And the United States won; some people are still upset about that.