(06-09-2020, 05:33 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(06-09-2020, 05:13 PM)mikesez Wrote: The federal government seized the Arlington plantation from Robert E Lee against his wishes. 
Suffice it to say, his peers in government knew what kind of man Lee was and treated him accordingly. It was a later generation that created the fable of him being honorable.

Keep trying to rewrite history.

Are you O.K. with the Federal Government seizing private property because they might have the opinion of "what kind of man he was/is"?

Again you don't know Robert E. Lee's history.  All you know is your "perceived" history of him.

Was General Custer a "good and honorable" man?

There are a lot of moving parts leading up to the government's seizure of that property.
In general, yes, I support the government's power to seize private land, for public use, with just compensation.

That's not what happened to Lee's land.
I don't think you'll find a person alive who fully understands and agrees with the blow by blow of how the land was taken. The supreme Court decision ended five to four, after all.

I'm not a judge, but I do find poetic fairness in simply taking the property of slave drivers who rise up in arms against their duly elected government. And obviously many people on the union side had the same thought at the time.

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