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In reply to the discussion: Are you glad that John Brown was hanged? [View all]HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)133. I'd like to think Carter, Clinton and Obama would squish vermin
like Faubus under their feet like a bug. But we really have not had a states' rights issue like desegregation since the early 60s, so one is left only with one's own personal take on each figure.
No insult to bugs or to our DU entomologist brothers and sisters intended
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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