Any person who turns away from his or her country is a traitor to that country. He or she maybe hailed as a liberator or founding father in another country, but to his place of birth he or she could be considered a traitor. Washington is a traitor to the British, not to Americans. Benedict Arnold is a traitor to Americans, not the British. Eric Snowden can be considered a traitor to Americans, not to Russians. It all depends on which side you happen to be on. Pretty simple stuff. Lee will always be a hero to those who believe in in the CSA, but he was a traitor to the USA. Plain and simple.

And remember, Lee led an armed insurrection. Jane Fonda talked to the North Vietnamese, and she's villified to this day. Eric Snowden released damning documents, and he's cast as a traitor. Neither of those two people fired a shot, or were responsible for killing a single person. Lee had the blood of hundreds of thousands of Americans on his hands, and should never be considered a hero in any sense of the word by Americans today.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Do this, and you become a new nation...

Any person who turns away from his or her country is a traitor to that country. He or she maybe hailed as a liberator or founding father in another country, but to his place of birth he or she could be considered a traitor. Washington is a traitor to the British, not to Americans. Benedict Arnold is a traitor to Americans, not the British. Eric Snowden can be considered a traitor to Americans, not to Russians. It all depends on which side you happen to be on. Pretty simple stuff. Lee will always be a hero to those who believe in in the CSA, but he was a traitor to the USA. Plain and simple.

And remember, Lee led an armed insurrection. Jane Fonda talked to the North Vietnamese, and she's villified to this day. Eric Snowden released damning documents, and he's cast as a traitor. Neither of those two people fired a shot, or were responsible for killing a single person. Lee had the blood of hundreds of thousands of Americans on his hands, and should never be considered a hero in any sense of the word by Americans today.