Robert E. Lee was a terrorist

Yes, that was the Bush Administration's position. In a memo authored by that great defender of totalitarianism, John Yoo, and approved by George W. Bush, the Executive Branch declared the president "had the authority (a) to deploy the U.S. military inside the U.S., (b) directed at foreign nationals and U.S. citizens alike; (c) unconstrained by any Constitutional limits..."

While this sounds like something Lincoln might have written, it's actually from a just-released document entitled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the U.S." It goes on to declare this:

Suppose that an armed and violent group of United States citizens seized control of a part of the country or of one of the territories, and declared itself to be independent, as occured during the Civil War. Federal Armed Forces must be free to use force to put down this insurrection without being constrained by the Fourth Amendment...

Do notice this is not just an academic opinion about the right of the Confederacy to secede, but a statement of modern-day policy toward uppity citizens who may exercise their right to peacefully secede -- which is exactly what the Confederate States did. The bottom line is that the Declaration of Independence has been declared null and void.

How many times have we argued that the events and issues of the WBTS still have significance today? Don't look now, but that argument was just validated -- by the Federal government.

And do you really think it's just a coincidence this document is being made public now when so many State governments are re-asserting their sovereignty?