To: bushfamfan
Bleeding Kansas was in fact a war zone. Those murdered were leaders of the slave movement that murdered, brutalized, and was actively involved in stealing an election process and denying opposition. So, yes, it was warfare that Brown moved from Kansas to the slave states that were involving themselves in the equation of spreading it further to other states and the continuing issue of the humanity of slavery in a country that was supposed to stand for freedom.
John Brown had ZERO legal authority to conduct any "warfare".
You make the same arguments for John Brown that eco-terrorists make for themselves today.
You either believe in the constitutional federal republic we have created and work through that....or you believe that each man can decide for himself to impose his belief on others through violence if he chooses (anarchy).
When you justify John Brown's actions you open the door for others to justify themselves in the same way for causes that they believe are just. If all one has to do to become judge, jury, army, executioner, and commander in chief is make the case to ones own self...then it is anarchy.
You are wrong.
To: Arkinsaw
Knock off the ‘legal’ and ‘elected’ crap. In the end SLAVERY-THAT CAUSE is enough to justify steps taken against the movement for it to expand and continue. And you continue to want to deflect away from the issue OF ENSLAVEMENT that was ‘legal’ in this country. It was LEGAL to murder, rape, brutalize and kidnap their children at the master’s will. The issue is slavery, period. YOU FAIL. And you continue to show you will not face THE ISSUE that was the cause of John Brown because it is INDEFENSIBLE.
159 posted on
03/24/2009 7:44:12 AM PDT by
bushfamfan
(United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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