Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Correct; however, in the case of Fort Sumter, there was no foreign power occupying Charleston Harbor; merely a US Army garrison....Kicking trespassers out of your territory is not an act of war...
This garrison was engaged in its rightful duties and pursuits, on Federal property, amidst one of several States of the Union at that time.
The State of South Carolina was not "sovereign" with respect to the United States and the US Constitution....Refusing to leave when asked and even intruding on sovereign territorial waters are acts of war...
Apples and Oranges....If Japan kicks us out of base they're leasing to us, that's not an act of war...
Japan is a sovereign country.
South Carolina was (and is) merely one of several States, subordinate to the Federal government.
It is not a lie to rightfully posit: the millisecond that the S.C. legislature voted for secession, that State was engaged in unlawful rebellion....I know you sleazy lying douchebags will continue to insist that all that matters is who fired first, but only dumbasses fall for that "logic."
The very millisecond.
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These matters were settled on the battlefield and at Appomattox Court House 150+ years ago.
In our own present age, you will abide by the Constitution and the majority Will of the People.
Guaranteed.
Any assertions to the contrary are merely Little Boy Minds in Big Bodies, waving their
To absolutely no avail whatsoever.
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Next batter, please.
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