Reply #8: John Brown

[No2W2004]

No man is above the law in the United States of America. (unless poppy says otherwise)

John Brown butchered 5 men in Kansas and was allowed to go free for 4 years with no attempts to arrest him. He was not hiding and made a lot of appearances through out the Northeast where he claimed to be an instrument of god.

Then, at Harper's Ferry, he killed 4 more men.

Murder is murder, no matter how good the intentions.

John Brown was not a slave. A slave had every right (in my opinion) to rise up and defend themselves, but Brown killed to try and spark revolution.

Allowing John Brown to travel with impunity was one of the reasons the south was convinced the north was out to destroy slavery (which was still legal) without their consent.

If someone today goes and takes out all the neocons in govt., it might be celebrated, but the person still committed a crime and should face a trial by their peers for it. John Brown never had to answer for Kansas, until he was on trial for treason 4 years later.

(Don't take the above as any kind of endorsement of slavery. It was an evil practice and went on far to long for people claiming to be
"civilized". I'm looking at it as if I lived in the 1850s)