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In reply to the discussion: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged? [View all]Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)83. I got Manny's point just fine. It was how he framed his question that was ridiculous.
He may be a genius, but that was not reflected in the OP.
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That's a given. They would have pleaded with King George to save them from those wascally webels
Zorra
Jun 2013
#72
The Revolution was basically a story of the British not being able to win
MannyGoldstein
Jun 2013
#112
Snowden never killed anyone. All he did was show Uber-Double-Secret Powerpoint slides...
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#8
Freeing millions of people from government surveillance is a worthy cause. n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#91
No, but John Brown was not the squeaky-clean hero that some have made him out to be.
NaturalHigh
Jun 2013
#6
They should be grateful they were forcibly converted to Christianity! n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#12
Thank you for one of your more simplistic posts. My ancestors were here in the 1850's and had been
madinmaryland
Jun 2013
#16
How strange that Brown was hanged for treason after his attack on a Federal arsenal but that
struggle4progress
Jun 2013
#18
IIRC Booth joined the militia guarding Brown's execution just to be present at the hanging
struggle4progress
Jun 2013
#80
Robert E. Lee's reputation has come under some much-deserved critical scrutiny in,
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#53
I think you and I are breaking on different sides of this debate, but I still
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#122
No, I wish all the slaves had rose up and slaughtered all of the massas, including the slave islands
Sunlei
Jun 2013
#27
Post 55 (my post) was most definitely not 'cheering revenge'. On the contrary, in
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#125
After the war, every politician, military leader, plantation owner, and SB minister
Dawson Leery
Jun 2013
#134
John Brown was a megalomaniac who got many people killed for no reason & did nothing to end slavey.
baldguy
Jun 2013
#30
That was becasue he had poor tactics but his heart was in the right place
YeahSureRight
Jun 2013
#33
Pointing out that he was nothing but an ineffectual terrorist ***DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT SLAVERY!***
baldguy
Jun 2013
#63
Answer the OP's question, please. Do you support ('are you glad . . . ?') Brown's execution? No
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#68
Before the raid on Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass thought Brown's plan was a mistake
Martin Eden
Jun 2013
#136
Hell no I would have been part of the armed rebellion and my activites would have continued
YeahSureRight
Jun 2013
#32
And what he did in Kansas "deserves" the death penalty more than Harper's Ferry
Recursion
Jun 2013
#42
Shall we re-open the question of 'Bleeding Kansas'? If so, we must not fail to
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#103
The nearest parallel to John Brown would be anti-abortionists who burn clinics and kill doctors.
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#38
You conveniently ignore the fact that John Brown was equally villified and demonized by the
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#121
I wish I could recommend this OP and your question to Infinity and beyond! Using today's
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#43
Brown's bravery in the face of execution sent a very strong message to the South
BeyondGeography
Jun 2013
#56
Not only that, but Brown's raid scared the shit out of the slavers. They began organizing
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#67
But, we would have missed Ronald Reagan and Erol Flynn in their most stirring roles: JEB Stuart &
leveymg
Jun 2013
#57
Was Custer part of the unit that captured Brown and re-took Harper's Ferry? - nt
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#69
Rather than answer the question, attack the one who asked it, Centrist Theory 101
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#75
I guess we disagree? I'm not sure. Regardless, I voiced my opinion, and it hasn't changed.
Buzz Clik
Jun 2013
#79
I got Manny's point just fine. It was how he framed his question that was ridiculous.
Buzz Clik
Jun 2013
#83
In our society, civilians don't try to change things through armed conflict
brooklynite
Jun 2013
#87
Actually, I believe that maybe "glad" is the question, if I read Manny correctly.
Zorra
Jun 2013
#124
I believe that the death penalty is wrong. But if someone organised an armed attack on a death row,
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#89
In your hypothetical, would the president fail to send in the 82nd or 101st Airborne
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#119
Not a normal president, absolutely. But I wouldn't put it past a Huckabee or a Palin (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jun 2013
#131
One's mind reooils at the possibility that either of them would ever get within
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#132
The Martyrdom of John Brown did more for his cause than anything else he could have done.
Martin Eden
Jun 2013
#99
Allow me to put a finer point on it then. Do you support (or would you have supported)
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#100
Well put and argued. In this debate, I see and hear strands of the debate extending
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#117
I have to admit that in many years of living I have never given it a thought
tularetom
Jun 2013
#105