America's First Terrorist

I should point out that John Brown is an ancestor of mine having the common Mayflower ancestry of Peter Browne. Fortunately, I have more significant others to more than compensate for this Brown's atrocities and crimes. Although not mentioned in the article below, John Brown was captured by Robert E. Lee, tried for treason and hung by the Commonwealth of Virginia. You see, back then states were sovereign unto themselves. Our opinion-molders have always given us a choice between 'good' evil and 'bad' evil. In 1859, John Brown was a 'good' terrorist just as the Red Chinese are 'good' communists while Chavez, along with growing resentment of Putin are bad' communists. Cuba's Battista was a 'bad' dictator, but Castro is a 'good' one. Nicaragua's Somoza was a "bad" dictator, but the Communist Ortega is a 'good' one. Nelson Mandela is another example of a terrorist becoming a 'good' communist. Not too far removed from Brown's terrorism is the state terrorism we inflict upon other nations today. It's 'good' evil because we know what's better for them and offer them our form of democracy in our caring for their common good. The American people are only offered policies of "relativity", 'the lesser of two evils' theory, and we lose every time. We should be grateful we only have 40 million illegals, and not 100 million?

Another not forgotten historical example of state 'good' terrorism was the abolitionists-inspired invasion of the American South and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans for the common 'good' as determined by these same New Englanders. The South has had nearly 145 years of "reconstruction", and still Yankees are resented. How long do you think it'll take the Middle East and the world to Love us again?

For more on the Unitarian subversion, see my: http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/unitwhig.htm

I further recommend Otto Scott's The Secret Six for more on the supporters and financiers of Brown's activities

by Philocrites

Okay Unitarian-Universalist and American literary history buffs, be sure to read Adam Gopnik's essay about the brilliant, violent abolitionist John Brown. I'd like to call your attention especially to the way the Transcendentalists — our most famous Unitarians — embraced Brown after he and four of his sons slaughtered five pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. That's right, after. Reviewing David S. Reynolds's new biography, Gopnik writes:

"Brown was never arrested or tried for the Kansas killings, and when he came back East he found himself a hero—though not with the members of Garrison’s abolitionist “establishment,” who were firmly pacifist and consumed by their own sectarian squabbling. Instead, it was the high Transcendentalists, Thoreau and Emerson and Alcott first among them, who became Brown’s fervent admirers and propagandists. Some of Reynolds’s most illuminating pages are devoted to Brown’s relationship to the Transcendentalists. The historical cliché has been that the Transcendentalists had their heads too far up in the clouds to see what was happening on the bloody earth below. Reynolds, however, following Stauffer, establishes that they were Brown’s most important intellectual allies..."