(A) First, there are a number of legitimate reasons why right-minded citizens might want to protest the movement and/or destruction of Civil War monuments, honoring Confederate icons. One should never forget that none of the Confederates - including Jefferson Davis - was ever charged with treason, and for a good reason: the question of whether states had the RIGHT to secede from the Union was never finally adjudicated in court, and it is a toss-up which viewpoint would prevail. Lincoln was petrified of a USSC decision concluding that the rebels were exercising their Constitutional rights. Which is why he quickly granted amnesty to all.
Actually your claim is not entirely true.
Texas v White absolutely adjudicated the right, or lack thereof, of the states to secede:
When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
I would say that pretty definitively determines the States' lack of legitimacy to secede, and that ruling has never been challenged, overturned, or revised. The actual reason none of the Confederates were put on trial for Treason was as a compromise for the reconstruction. President Lincoln himself in 1863 identified a list of top Confederate generals that included such iconic figures as Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston who deserved to be imprisoned for treason. However, in order to allow the nation to heal, it was agreed to forgo such charges, and trials. It wasn't because they were not viewed to be guilty, but because Lincoln wanted to put the Civil War to rest, and get on with the job of reconstruction, and healing.
(B) Demonstrations do not "turn violent." This expression promotes a Narrative and not the truth. The counter-protesters provoked the violence; they could have peacefully protested, or staged their own demonstration (after obtain permits, etc) at the time of their choosing. THEY chose to make this a "violent" incident, not the original demonstrators.
This is fundamentally inaccurate. You have the absolute constitutional right to spout any bullshit you want. However, you do
not have the "right' to do so unchallenged. I also have the right to stand right in front of you, telling you that you're full of shit. When you punch me in the face for challenging you, you don't get to insist that
I "incited violence". That's not how that works.
(C) One whack-job in a Challenger is not representative of anything but that person's motives and action. He did not speak or act for anyone but himself. To believe or suppose or say that he was representative of the original demonstrators is nonsense.
And, yet, that "one whack-job" who shot up a club in Miami was "representative" of ISIS. How is this "different"? If the whack jobs who do violence in the name of Islam are representative of the organisation in whose name they are acting, then so was this guy.
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(F) No matter what the President's response was, the Left was going to use it to attack the President for SOMETHING. In this case, they have attacked him for what he DIDN'T say. If you can't see this idiocy for what it is, they you are the idiot.
So you want the President praised for saying, after 48 hours, what he should have said immediately? Okay. Trump condemned racism,
finally. Yay, Trump. Now, tell us Mr. President, why were you unable to do that immediately? Why did you need 48 hours to figure out how to condemn racism, and bigotry? Why did you only condemn racism and bigotry after the public backlash over your failure to do so -
from your own party, and supporters? Why, when
directly asked if you condemn the White Nationalists who promoted hate, and responded violently to challenge, did you simply walk away in silence?
