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You do realize the American Revolution was a movement by a minority against their own country, don’t you? And over taxes which they considered ‘slavery’! I am not saying you supported slavery, but I will say with someone like you slavery and the suffering would have continued on for many more yrs. to come. And as for ‘evil actions’, like I say, the only way there ever is FREEDOM is because of BLOODSHED. It is a necessary evil and I believe Brown brought the issue to a much sooner conclusion with his actions.

You continue to somehow equate the founders and their methodology with John Brown and his. Sounds good in abstract, but in actuality they are not related.

The founders who declared independence were appointed representatives of the local colonial governments functioning as the only available representative bodies of the people of those colonies. John Brown was appointed by NO ONE and had not even a wisp of legal authority to act.

The founders took their actions openly, presented their justifications to the world prior to any hostilities as appointed representatives, and acted jointly to establish the best legal justification for their actions as they could. Brown acted on his own counsel as representative of nobody but himself and with no interest in justification under any human legal system.

The founders did not act with the specific desire to cause bloodshed and probably had forlorn hope that they could achieve their goal without bloodshed. John Brown specifically and deliberately planned and caused bloodshed to trigger more bloodshed in hopes that the resulting storm would result in his goal.

You cannot hide John Brown under the Continental Congress's skirts.

And it was still treason against the mother govt. The United States was British citizens and the country was extremely divided with most remaining Loyalists. But it’s funny you find the cause of rebelling against a gov’t ok for taxes but not in the cause of true slavery. Hitler and the Nazis were elected and ruled Germany. It would have been nice to have seen a John Brown rise up there.