April 12, 1861, the official date given as the start of the US Civil War. Certain states felt they had rights, States Rights as stated in the Constitution, to keep a population of people living in the United States brought to this country not on their own volition, then raised in this country from generations before them from being free citizens. It was felt by the southern states that they had the moral and ethical right to discriminate against Negro’s and keep them as slaves as per the Constitution. Not only were there State’s Rights involved in maintaining slavery the same folks who insisted the Constitution permitted them to hold slaves also quoted their preachers who shouted from the pulpit Negro’s were not equal and from the owners of plantations and businesses, freeing the slaves would be bad for business.
South Dakota politicians now feel that that even though Roe V. Wade is legal it is not so legal in their state. Women should not seek abortions, and to make sure they don’t abort, no matter what the case, the South Dakotans want to pass a law making it acceptable to kill doctors who provide reproductive terminations to women seeking abortions. South Dakota Republicans/Baggers want to chip away at women’s reproductive rights one woman at a time.
Wisconsin now wants to eliminate collective bargaining within its public employee unions. The same unions that want their workers to strive for and receive middle class living standards are being told that in the state of Wisconsin, it is not the accepted American way. If this law passes then what is next for unions? If this law passes then working conditions, safety regulations, salaries and benefits will be at the discretion of Republican/Baggers who love to keep the rich wealthy and the rest of the world poor.
Minnesota now proclaims via the Republican/Bagger elected officials that equal pay for women in their state is unnecessary and costly. They want to repeal their landmark 1948 ‘fair pay law”, that ensures systematic pay discrimination against women does not happen. Women apparently should not make as much as men in the state of Minnesota because if anything they are just women, a rib off the body from Adam.
Arizona Republican/Baggers want to pass a bill that would require hospitals to report illegal immigrants who show up for care and have the hospital staff act as immigration agents. To make sure those pesky illegal’s learn a lesson for being illegal in the state of Arizona they had better make a decision of either dying from an illness or going to the hospital to be deported. And if their kids are ill, well bring them to the hospital for care or just take the sick child with you as you cross the boarder to Mexico.
South Carolina is seeking a ban on Sharia Law in that state. For the Republican/Baggers there is a risk that the Islamic based law, Sharia will become the law of that state if the elected officials don’t place a line in the sand now. There is no trust in the state of South Carolina for most non Christian Evangelical religions, but the distaste for the Muslims is of great worry. Seems if in the country that prides itself of freedom of religion the state of South Carolina feels paranoid that too much freedom will lead to their God taking control and shoving his human type law on everyone. And Sharia law doe not exist in this country at all.
Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah, 10 states have amended their state Constitutions to permit marriage by one man and one woman only. They feel that by doing so they have protected the Institution of Marriage, the sanctity of religion, and have made inequality a States Rights provision. No mention ever of the divorce rate, the spousal abuse, the broken homes generated by heterosexuals who can marry but don’t marry for love, but lots of mention about God’s wrath when homosexuals who do love can not marry.
In 1861 states demanded that they be heard and that they knew what was good for them. They were the masters of their destiny and would rip this country apart if they did not get what they wanted and felt what they deserved. They used their interpretation of the Constitution, the Bible and the Bottom Lines of Businesses to make their point. They shouted Un-American epitaphs towards those who felt equality was just, they shouted Anti Christian eulogies at those who felt that God created man and woman of every race as equals. They shouted tyranny to those who denied businesses to continue to make a better profit using cheaper or free labor. They had their preachers and pastors, their white wealthy men, their fabricated facts to prove that States Rights were right even if they denied human and equal rights to the people of America.
Watch out America… those of you who stayed home last election cause the bums needed booted out… those of you who said it didn’t matter because they all are losers…those of you who thought about voting but didn’t bother…those of you who said you were Independent minded people and it was now the turn of the Republicans to take control again…those who swear by States Rights. Watch out cause taking away the rights from working women, women’s reproductive rights, health care for all, unions, Gays and Lesbians is just the beginning of a whole new America. An America where it won’t be so easy to travel from one state to another if you don’t look, sound or pray like those who don’t think for themselves but let biased and bigoted bullies think for them.
Ready for another Civil War?
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