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In reply to the discussion: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged? [View all]HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)to free said women and doctors? Even that stolid conservative Eisenhower did not hesitate to send in the 82nd Airborne to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce Brown v. Topeka Board of Education when Arfkansas Governor Orval Faubus tried to use Arkansas National Guard troops to block desegregation at Central High. Your hypothetical presumes a federal chief executive so paralyzed and weak as to have lost command and control of the armed forces. Let us hope it never reaches that point, eh?
Assuming no presidential deployment of federal troops, to answer your question (not posed to me but all-too-relevant), not only would I oppose prosecuting said vigiliantes but I would probably be with them (with my wife's blessing in this case, I think . Yes, that would mark a 'John Brown moment' for me, I do believe. Let us also hope it never reaches that point, eh?