Posted on 12/07/2004 1:20:26 PM PST by mft112345
You might expect a Nazi to call the constitution evil, spout anti-democratic rhetoric, and endorse violence against the U.S. government, but how many Americans know the revered Henry David Thoreau voiced these same sentiments?
Like the men who blow up federal buildings, kill abortion providers, or blow themselves up at Israeli public gatherings, Thoreau was wrong to support violent revolutionary means to secure political ends.
We don't ignore the anti-democratic tendencies of Nietzsche, Hobbes or Machiavelli just because they were good writers.
Where does Thoreau support ‘violent revolutionary means to secure political ends’?
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