Perhaps this man DID decide to take justice in his own hands, as it had been thwarted in all other venues, and accepted the consequences for doing so, but did so with a clear conscience...Wait until liberals start shooting CEOs and talk show hosts. You *really* don't want to go there.we don’t have any statements yet.
Someone like, say, Obama’s favorite “professor of English, who lives in my neighborhood”?
. . . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done.”
Although initially shocked by Brown’s exploits, many Northerners began to speak favorably of the militant abolitionist. “He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. . . .,” said Henry David Thoreau in an address to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts. “No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature. . . .”
John Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
Sometimes your concience just demands that you act.