[Vision2020] Fwd: White House Petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument

[Chasuk]

It's a little early to prove Godwin's Law, don't you think?

Confederate soldiers were young men who woke up one morning as the enemy.
They did nothing that their countrymen to the north would not have done had
those countrymen been born in the south.

The government of the antebellum south no longer exists, so there is
nothing that you can do, nor have ever been able to do, to support it. But
supporting erstwhile antebellum governments is not the point. The point is
showing compassion. I feel compassion for our soldiers today who serve
in Afghanistan, while not necessarily supporting
our government's decision to put them there. In my estimation, victors and
vanquished alike deserve compassion. In this case, the vanquished were our
fellows, born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line.


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> In that case, Chasuk, perhaps you should petition the White House to erect
> monuments to those Japanese airmen that bombed Pearl Harbor and the Nazis
> that interred and killed six million Jews.
>
> I do not, and I NEVER will, support the government of the antebellum south.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I disagree with the intent of this petition. Confederate soldiers died
> with as much honor -- and as much heroism, if such a thing exists -- as
> their Yankee counterparts.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> Visionaires (et al) -
>>
>> I encourage you to visit and sign the petition linked below.
>>
>> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares"
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *Date:* January 11, 2013, 8:47:30 AM PST
>> *To:* <thansen at moscow.com>
>> *Subject:* *White House Petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to
>> the Arlington Confederate Monument*
>>
>> Tom,
>>    At this URL is a petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to the
>> Arlington Confederate Monument.
>>
>> http://wh.gov/PLBU
>>
>> If you could sign it and let people know about it I would greatly
>> appreciate
>> it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ed Sebesta
>>
>> http://arlingtonconfederatemonument.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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