Civil War-Which side are you on?

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UK's had dozens and dozens, the really bigs ones like the Wars of the Roses and the one between Stephen and Matilda were fought over succession rather than anything important.

There's been a couple of modern ones, Northern Ireland still, and the Republic in the past.

But the really interesting ones were The Great Civil War, The Peasants Revolt and Simon de Montford's rebellion. All these were fought by the rebels against despotism, so I'd be a rebel.

I was going for the most recent one...

Well Canada has for the most part of its history been a very peaceful nation. The onlyl aspect which has givin the nation a bit of stirr is the fact that roughly 25% of the population is french and mostly situated in the french province of Qu�bec which has a border to our beloved capital, Ottawa.

Following independance, the english population continued to dominate politics and business in Qu�bec following Great Britain's example when Canada had still been a colony of England. During the 1960s, when the world was in much turmoil and the entire "hipee" movement was taking place, directed general against governements and their control, so too were the qu�becois(french) against english supremacy.

In 1970, a qu�becois terrorist group formed named "FLQ: Front de Lib�ration Qu�becois" I believe. (Yes, a canadian terrorist group, something unheard of since) This group began to target rich english residences in Montreal, at the time the banquing and business center of Canada and also the second lagest french city globally which it still is. They mainly planted bombs in mail boxes and such, their goal being to intimidate the english into incoporating governement reform recognizing the linguistic rights of the french in the provicne of qu�bec.

Well they didn't get enough attention, so one day they kidnapped a brittish politition I believe and the qu�bec finance minister. This got attention, the qu�bec premier was so shocked he ran to our prime minister saying our national security was in danger and that Qu�bec was in a position of open rebellion seeing the french had sympothy for the FLQ effort.

Prime minister Trudeau called for the war act to be put in place, which hadn't been done since the world wars which is an act that gives sepcial rights to the governement when in national danger. This scared the warm sh*t out of the FLQ seeing how Canadian tanks rumbbled into Montreal and the national guard was set up at banquing locations and putting heavy security on the main traffic and adminstration buildings. Seeing how this had NEVER been done before in Canadian history, and seeing how a war has not been fought on Canadian soil since 1812, Canada was in shock.

The FLQ continued on to their mission however which was to bring up their demands to the federal governement, and now with a brittish politicion's life at risk, the governement was obliged to listen.

THe demands of the FLQ included playing on national television a video which announced how much control the english have over the lives of the qu�becois revealing much info such as how pretty much the entire administration of qu�bec is done by english ppl and how many finances and sucked out of the province. For several days the Canadian army scoured the city for these terrorists, and after demands were not met, the FLQ killed the finance minister of quebec leaving him in a car for the governement to find.

Things got serious, they came to a comprimise, the british politicion was set loose, some reforms were made I believe and all the terrorists were deported.

Since then, the financial capital of canada has slowly switched over to toronto, an english speaking city of 5 million surpassing motreal's 3 million and Qu�bec has gone through much reform and is currently as far as I know, is very representtive of the ppl where french ppl are in the governement. Some sepratist sentiments still exist but it has been mainly resolved. Incorporatting Qu�bec into the Canadian cosntitution must still take place however.

During this month of national fright, (naemd the october crisis) hundreds of english volonteers presented themselves in the rest of Canada saying they were willing to serve as occupation forces if the french rebelled...wow, thsi si so not like Canada. Never happenned again mind you.

Personally, I believe reform was necessary, but I say do it like india, peaceful revolution....I do ahve sympathy for the priem minister at the time, Trudeau, seeing how he is french, and his entire effort was to bring equalism of the lingusistic groups in Canada. This entire affaire made it seem like he wasn't doing job, when in fact, he was one of canada's greatest prime ministers.

I realize the question asks the opinion of the person who's nation had a civil war but the rebellion of the germans in Shelswig-Holstein was against Danish supremacy who conquered the land. THey were fighting to rejoin their german brethren and that part of the country was completly german in any case, so seems to me this was their liberty war, why would you want to keep them emprisonned? Just curious...

As an American with both North and South ties, I don't know who I would have fought for.  I think that legally the South had the right to secede, but the law should not be obeyed when it allows injustice. 

Again, I'm not sure, but I'm glad the North won and reunited my country.  I think North and South are far better cooperating as Americans instead of competing as Confederates and Federals.

Yes. It sounds very nice and sound like both truth and some kind of wisdom. I regret that im not the author of this sentence. It is moreless what said Jean Paul Trintigan in the french-spanish movie titled "Fiesta" which is about spanish civil war. I saw the movie many years ago but still remember this sentence. Trintigan in the movie plays the role of colonel of Franco's army. He was commander of garrison in one small city and his duty was to make sure that all enemies of Franco will be executed. So he is organising public executions which were called "Fiesta".