The Constitution does not authorize the Federal government, or any combination of states (including Northern states) to raise armies to invade, occupy or otherwise subdue or compel other states (including Southern ones). It does say that any power not specifically given to the Federal government remains with the states, or the people. Since the framers of the Constitution fought a war to establish the rights of Independence and Self-Government, it stands to reason that those rights (the right Independence, and the right of Self-Government) were included among the rights of the states, or the people.
If therefore, the War of Northern Aggression was unconstitutional, and illegal, it follows that it is the Northern flag that is treasonous, not the Southern one.What is the name of your state?
Another Tim McVeigh-type trying to re-write history. Everyone who ever attended the 8th grade knows that the Civil War started when a group of terrorists fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a seven-ton truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people, including 19 children, in the second deadliest act of terrorism ever committed on American soil.
It is well-iknown that McVeigh displayed the Confederate battle flag, and even had ties to groups that used the Confederate flag as their symbol.
While McVeigh's racist views are troubling, it is other views which he held, like those expressed above, that should concern us the most. McVeigh despised the United States and bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was his way of expressing his festered hatred for this great Country.
Allowing Americans to openly display the Confederate flag is dangerous. Tim McVeigh is proof of that. September 11, 2001 is further proof of how Anti-American sentiments can harm Americans.
