Having failed in an earlier effort to bar federal agents from enforcing gun regulations in Missouri, conservative lawmakers are trying a new tack this year: banding together with other like-minded states to defy certain federal laws at the same time.
.. "In Tennessee, a state legislator is calling for the arrest of federal agents who seek to enforce gun laws, while Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas has called for Obama’s impeachment."
Lost Cause of the Confederacy .....
The term Lost Cause first appeared in the title of an 1866 book by the historian Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the ConfederatesSome of the main tenets of the Lost Cause [of the confederacy] movement were that:
Confederate generals such as Lee .. represented the virtues of Southern nobility and fought bravely and fairly. On the other hand, most Northern generals were characterized as possessing low moral standards, because they subjected the Southern civilian population to indignities like Sherman's March to the Sea and Philip Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley..
Losses on the battlefield were inevitable due to Northern superiority in resources and manpower.
Battlefield losses were also the result of betrayal and incompetence on the part of certain subordinates of General Lee, such as General James Longstreet*, who was reviled for doubting Lee at Gettysburg, and George Pickett, who led the disastrous Pickett's Charge that broke the South's back.
Defense of states' rights, rather than preservation of chattel slavery, was the primary cause that led eleven Southern states to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war.
Secession was a justifiable constitutional response to Northern cultural and economic aggressions against the Southern way of life.
Slavery was a benign institution, and the slaves were loyal and faithful to their benevolent masters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
So this new 21st century policy is just a continuation of the lost cause of the confederacy, that they're such righteous & benevolent masters who only lose because of underhanded dealings by (currently) democrats & liberals, not recognizing their black pot calling the kettle that.
*Longstreet also aligned postwar with northern republicans, who were generally despised in the south which was predominantly democrat (parties flipped near 180 degrees since then), so longstreet viewed as traitorous, tho he seconded lee's ambition to cooperate with the reconstruction process.
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