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John Brown Goes to Wall Street?

There are many who think Americans will never take up arms against their oppressors, and that tarring-and-feathering will remain a figure of speech.  Do people who doubt a revolution is possible study history - or even listen to the Rolling Stones?   There are many who claim that violence against Wall Street would be immoral.  How quickly Americans have forgotten that the United States was founded after a violent revolution, and was united after a violent civil war.  The Civil War was precipitated by John Brown, who took up arms against Kansas slave owners: John Brown was an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 13, 2010 (boomark / email).