Oklahoma Treason

Doot de doot. Just checkin' the ol' internet. Wonder if...

Oklahoma Rebellion
by Walter E. Williams

One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War

Awesome! Totally crazy, and not even the first sentence is over! See, my American Heritage Dictionary (4th Ed) defines civil war as A war between factions or regions of the same country. What aspect of that did the American Civil War not meet?

A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try to take over the central government

I see. It doesn't meet your definition, which, coincidentally, is defined in such a way that the Anerican Civil War doesn't meet it.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly described as wars of independence.

Right. See, wars of independence are usually declared after we know who won, not by some guy with a website. They don't say the victors write the history books for no reason, you know. And guess what? It turned out that the South couldn't operate independently of the North. So it's not really a war of independence. More of a war of emo Jefferson Davis.

Oklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep. Charles Key.

The resolution's language, in part, reads: "...that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. That this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers."

Yeah, good luck with that.

See, here's the thing: If you ask just about any foreigner what the American Civil War meant, you're likely to get one of two responses. Either they won't know, or they'll say that it was the triumph of the federal government over the state governments. We see these things a little bit differently in the states, but the Civil War was really a watershed moment for the federal government. It really attained ascendency during that war and tilted the balance of power far away from the state capitols.

As much as I'd like to see a greater balance between federal and state governments, I know that that ship sailed a long time ago.

I suppose this isn't treason, per se, but it is rebellion fetishism. I figured I ought to follow the situation.