A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.
Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.
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Dude is non binary and I don’t particularly care what you prefer, I prefer not to be called a racist or Confederate sympathizer but you went ahead and did it anyway didn’t you?
It was about states rights you can read Lincoln talking about it, you can read Jefferson Davis talking about it and notably some of the union states were slave owning states when they entered the union.
No it was not, it was about property rights across state borders, there’s a reason emancipation didn’t happen until like 3/4 off the way through the war and that’s because Lincoln didn’t have support for it in the legislature and talked about it at length. Sure the outcome was emancipation but was not the cause. Seriously! Read a fucking history book dude.
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Aside from the president of the Confederacy and the union both agreeing that it was a states rights issue? I’ve already provided my sources, where are yours?
It wasn’t about slavery it was about interstate property rights, sure the property were slaves but that doesn’t change what started it or why the federal government interceded.
Lincoln was against radical emancipation he tried it as a bill in DC and got no support so he moved to support generational emancipation. And btw Illinois didn’t become a free state until after it joined the union and even then only in limited part with grandfathered in slaves still considered property until the emancipation proclamation.
Yes, the South was filled with racists and slaveholders so was a huge part of the North. What exactly do you think isn’t common knowledge in that? More specifically what evidence can you provide to say that states rights were not the cause of the civil war? I’ve provided my evidence why can’t you proffer any yourself if your position is so unassailable?
Like super seriously!