Should John Brown Be 'Celebrated'

Should John Brown Be Celebrated?

  • Yes

    Votes: 18 17.1%
  • No

    Votes: 87 82.9%

  • Total voters
    105
Ever feel a sweeping sense of relief when you discover you're wrong? I had just read an article about a young man who runs a local youth program and saw that he and his wife were both taking classes online (for their master's degree in Christian Studies).....at John Brown University.

Immediately I had visions of "Pike-Making 101," "Severing Heads: How to Sharpen Your Sword," and "Taking hostages in the local community,".....but to my great relief, it's not the same John Brown. Whew. (http://www.jbu.edu/archives/timeline/)

Okay. You may continue.
 
So if my family and I put a fence around my house, issue our own money, pass some laws regarding what goes on inside my house, and call my house its own country, then it's a country? It's legitimate in the eyes of 100% of the people who live within that house, which is more than we can say for the confederacy.

You are not very far off. Might want to ask this guy:
http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html

I'm sorry to say he occupies a few measly acres of Nevada high desert, just down the road from me. Some think he's just playing games and isn't serious. But anyone who would go to the lengths and expense he has to set up his own "micronation" probably isn't doing it for attention. There has got to be more than a little screw loose in there.
 
You are not very far off. Might want to ask this guy:
http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html

I'm sorry to say he occupies a few measly acres of Nevada high desert, just down the road from me. Some think he's just playing games and isn't serious. But anyone who would go to the lengths and expense he has to set up his own "micronation" probably isn't doing it for attention. There has got to be more than a little screw loose in there.

So is he a country? Do we know for a fact whether or not he pays taxes? If not, when the IRS catches up with him, is he going to be able to claim he's a foreign country and the tax laws don't apply?
 
So is he a country? Do we know for a fact whether or not he pays taxes? If not, when the IRS catches up with him, is he going to be able to claim he's a foreign country and the tax laws don't apply?

I suppose he considers his property to be. I don't know anything about the guy other than what he posts on his web site and a couple of obscure local newspaper features over the years. He evidently makes his own currency out of discarded casino poker chips and pastes his own pixellated photo printout on them. I've wondered what the exchange rate is against the dollar.

If I had to venture a guess, I'd say there's just enough sanity left in the guy to know what he can get away with and what he can't in order to continue his little fantasy. But I ain't planning no vacation in Molossia any time soon. I hear the beaches are a real drag! LOL
 
John Brown's conduct at Harper's Ferry in 1859 was barbaric in my mind. He was insane, and he was what we consider now a terroist. He killed some civilians and held some as hostage, along taking US Army property. Whether he did it for slavery or not, he was nothing but a terroist in my mind.
 
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