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[DeistPaladin]

Knoxville....still getting over a civil war.

These people should just be glad I wasn't President during the aftermath of the War of Southern Treason. I frankly think they got off easy and bullies are only encouraged by that. Let's not mince words here, the Civil War amounted to southern "aristocrats" taking up arms against the duly elected government because they didn't like the election result. It should have been treated as insurrection against a democratic government because that's what it was.

Here's what I would have done:

1. Jefferson Davis: hung for treason
2. All traitor governors: hung for treason
3. All traitor legislators: hung for treason
4. All traitor generals and other senior officers: hung for treason
5. All traitor soldiers of lesser rank: pardoned if they recite the Pledge of Allegiance in front of the Union flag. Otherwise, hung for treason.
6. All plantations owned by Southern "aristocrats" that promoted the acts of treason: seized by the Union as war reparations.
7. Anyone caught wearing a Klu Klux Klan sheet and dunce cap: shot on sight as an insurrectionist.
8. "Confederate" Flag: treated as a symbol of treason
9. No "Confederate" War Memorials will be constructed nor will there be any other glorification of southern treason.
10. All state militias that declared treason against the Union will be disbanded for no less than 50 years.

With half the states that declared treason, the plantations would be given to former slaves as reparations for slavery. The purpose would be to try to create majority black southern states with the idea there's safety in numbers, that they may be able to protect themselves from bullying and segregation that they suffered in actual history. In the remaining states that declared treason, the plantations would be auctioned off to pay reparations to the Union for the war debt.

Here's what we should do today:
1. Tear down all "Confederate" war memorials.
2. Require all states that feature a "Confederate" flag must create a new flag.
3. Regard the "Confederate" flag as a symbol of treason.
4. Brand the Klu Klux Klan as both a terrorist organization and an insurrectionist group (if they aren't already).