DOES AN INDIVIDUAL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CARRY OUT VIOLENT ACTS BASED ON CONSCIENCE? DOES A NOBLE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS, such as fundamental human rights like freedom? What abridgments of freedom are large groups in human society currently challenged by? Thats the antithetical-to-Gandhi thesis question inherent to this 3 minute video on the convoluted story of John Brown. Below, in the 1st comments, I share a more detailed video of the historical facts. Old John Brown has just been executed for treason against a state. We cannot object, even though he agreed with us in thinking slavery wrong. That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed, and treason. It could avail him nothing that he might think himself right.” --President Abraham Lincoln The only government that I recognize,—and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army,—is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice. What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day! Treason! Where does such treason take its rise? I cannot help thinking of you as you deserve, ye governments. Can you dry up the fountains of thought? High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and is first committed by, the power that makes and forever recreates man. When you have caught and hung all these human rebels, you have accomplished nothing but your own guilt, for you have not struck at the fountain-head. You presume to contend with a foe against whom West Point cadets and rifled cannon point not. Can all the art of the cannon-founder tempt matter to turn against its maker? Is the form in which the founder thinks he casts it more essential than the constitution of it and of himself? --Henry David Thoreau youtu.be/e1OFdpUsO8w
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