[Hoot Gibson]

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The guy who argues the Confederacy wasn't a group of traitors is calling me a traitor.

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Surreal.

You are probably the biggest liar on BGR. What I said was that the Soldiers who fought for the Confederacy were not traitors. A strong argument could be made that Jefferson Davis and those who were in the chain of command involved in taking Fort Sumter engaged in treason - but the hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers who fought and often died protecting their homes and families were simply doing what 99 percent of us would have done under the same circumstances. It is idiotic to argue that a poor farmer living in the deep South should have refused to fight along side his family and neighbors. Traveling hundreds of miles during wartime to enlist with the Union was not an option for most of those who fought and died for the Confederacy.

It is also idiotic to assume that the majority of Soldiers who fought for the Union were eager to die to set southern slaves free. In every war that the American men and women have engaged during our history, the combatants really did not have many options available to them.

You, on the other hand, have a choice. Your choice is to support the lawless, treasonous acts of ignorant thugs who could not pick U.S. Grant or Abraham Lincoln out of a line up. In my book, that makes you no better than them.