I'm a day late, but yesterday Robert Farley reminded us that it was the anniversary of a particularly heinous terrorist attack against America:
143 years ago today, a guerrilla group called Quantrill's Raiders rolled into Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence was a target of Confederate ire because it had been a center of anti-slavery activity during the "Bleeding Kansas" years, in which pro and anti slavery forces strove to control Kansas. A Confederate officer, William Quantrill, led 300 or so men into Lawrence, which was not garrisoned by Union forces. Over a period of four hours, Quantrill and his men burned down most of Lawrence, and systematically murdered 200 men and boys.When you see someone sporting a terrorist flag, always remember that it stands for the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in the service of maintaining the institution of slavery.
[That's all, folks]
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