Reply #14: treason is weak? [View All]

[northzax]

the comparison is not whether Americans fly British flags, but more similar to Britons flying American flags. However, even that is less relevant, since the United States and Great Britain have made peace, as equal sovereign states, and the UK has therefore recognised the US as an independant, sovereign state. The US never recognized the Confederacy as anything but a rebel set of states, the US never recognised the CSA as a state, or Richmond as a capital. The CSA was not, in fact, recognised by a plurality of other states, the generally accepted way to become a state. the CSA was never an independant state, it never had soveriegnty. It was no more of an independant state than Euskara or Catalonia is in Spain, or Wales is in the UK. It existed only as a rebellious group of states that were defeated. You see, the difference between succession and treason is winning the war. The winners get a state, the losers get branded as traitors. c'est la vie.