Art III; Sec 3: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. (US Constitution)
Anybody care to explain how what Lee and Jackson did wasn't treason? Or, explain why we should honor them?
I think I'll go with Our Founding Document, thanks though. Specifically the bold portions. Especially considering the fact that the Constitutiion is not the document we Founded this nation on and has had it's meanings changed so often as to make it pretty worthless as a refrence to this nations Founding Principles. It means whatever the current batch of whores on the Supreme Court says it means today, whereas this Document, the one we wrote to found this nation, means exactly what it says.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Carry on Troop.
