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"Mike Griffith" < @ > wrote in message
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> On Sep 9, 7:35 pm, Geoff Blankenmeyer wrote:
> > Mike Griffith wrote:
> >
> > An amazing amount of bandwitdth to make absolutely no point at all.
>
> Also, another point of the post was to refute the revisionism that
> some Lincoln defenders have been presenting about the American
> Revolution, ., that the Patriots' understanding of the natural
> right of a people to be independent was merely the "right" of a people
> to revolt against a government they found unacceptable or oppressive,
> that the Patriots agreed they were traitors and rebels, that the
> Patriots believed the British were within their legal rights to try to
> violently suppress American independence.
>
> The "right" of a people to violently throw off an unwanted or
> oppressive government was the only "right" that Lincoln recognized--
> which is nothing more than the law of the jungle. The Patriots held a
> very different view. They thought it was outrageous that the British
> would not respect their desire for independence and that they would
> try to force the colonies to submit to British authority against their
> will.
>
> Mike Griffith
> Civil War website
> /mikegriffith1/
>

once again you are wrong on every point.