John Brown's body lies a molderin' in his grave

Dateline Harper's Ferry. Today a wacky fundamentalist preacher and his followers stormed a US government armory seeking to spur a violent insurrection against the US Government by workers. he failed.

Just a thought. In 1859, I hope I would have sympathized with the religious nutcases (and yes, John Brown was a religious nutcase in any sense of the word) if not with his methods, then with his ideology. Brown was a violent man, in a violent time, and used the tools of slavery against the slavers. He certainly didn't start the violence that led to the civil war, but he (sorry) kicked it up a notch. A reminder that people can do wrong things in the pursuit of good, and that people we all consider nuts may have some good points. No, not you, James Dobson, you're just an asshole.