Because this apparently needs saying periodically: Robert E. Lee was a traitor, fought for the slave empire, and should have been summarily executed at the end of the war.
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Replying to @marty_lederman
What I’m hearing is that this may not comport with traditional notions of the law of war?
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Replying to @marty_lederman
What process is “due” in this circumstance seems open to fair debate
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Replying to @isamuel @marty_lederman
I yield to no one in my awareness of the harm this cult has done but SOUTH was the region of summary justice, the mob, the noose and the bastinado. The victory of the North was a victory for Constitution and Law. Celebrating that victory with a lynching would have been dreadful.
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Replying to @Profepps @marty_lederman
Describing the hypothetical death of the white leader of the Confederacy as “lynching” seems like a really dissonant comparison
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Land confiscation would have been fantastic.
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Sherman (bless the man) did it, but then it was undone.
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