THE BIG MESSY THREAD--Discussion of the Civil War and its relations to FIREFLY
POSTED BY: SouthernMerc
UPDATED: Sunday, October 26, 2003 20:41
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Anyone see the Civil War stuff History Channel lately. That episode about the battle of the Crater made me think about Firefly. The way the Brass (in this case Gen. Meade) screwed up a battle plan (potentially personal reasons) made me think of the Browncoats. Did they every win a battle? I guess it's too late now but I'd like to see Mal and Zoe remenisce over a victory or two.
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I brought the Big Messy Thread back for folks to talk about the Civil War away from other people who might not appreciate it in their normal threads.
Post it here folks! Who knows, the bandwidth you save could be your own! 
Jayne: "How big a room?"
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A little late don't you think? That "Southern Identity on Decline" Thread was hijacked good and proper.
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I appreciate that morality is dependent upon among other things technology, but I find the whole idea of a country claiming to base itself on "freedom" and the equality of "all men" to engage in slavery for nearly ninety years thereafter to be horrific.
Folks, these people were ENSLAVED: they were OWNED and were BOUGHT, SOLD, RAPED and KILLED at whim.
With respect, if there was a way to end slavery sooner than the Civil War, I would have preferred it, regardless of the many other threads that lead to the war.
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True enough...but I thought we should have a thread more directly about the subject handy so's folks wouldn't hijack others as much. Who knows? Maybe it will actually work out.
Jayne: "How big a room?"
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