You're right. We're still fighting the Civil War. Never stopped. Irony is that the culprits in the Civil Wars managed to hold America hostage with state's rights, capitalism built on slavery unfair labor practices, racism for 160 years and many of us are apologists for a war we didn't start.

and we didn't do enough to punish them then and nip this in the bud like we should have.

I agree.

Back in the 90's when I was in highschool the FBI warned of the rising trend of domestic terrorism from white nationalist Nazis. I don't think anyone who's been paying attention is that surprised.

I read "Fire on the Plains" after the Waco/Ruby Ridge/Federal Building/Olympic Park events and got some real perspective. I made the "mistake" in law school of saying that the sole focus on Islamic terror post-911 was giving them time to grow. I got really badly slammed. I HATE that I was right..

Yes, they should have been crushed to dust then rebuilt not repaid for losing slaves, meanwhile the people who were treated as Chattel never got compensation.