[bushfamfan]

Talk about apples and oranges and you bring up Timothy McVeigh! John Brown is getting his final judgment just as anyone who is involved in killing and warfare. I believe he was just in his war and you and I obviously disagree. Too much indifference to the injustice for far too long.

[freema]

Can you come out and play? : )

[Arkinsaw]

Talk about apples and oranges and you bring up Timothy McVeigh! John Brown is getting his final judgment just as anyone who is involved in killing and warfare. I believe he was just in his war and you and I obviously disagree. Too much indifference to the injustice for far too long.

John Brown and Timothy McVeigh are much, much, more comparable than John Brown and the Continental Congress or John Brown and US service members are. I leave it for the reader to judge which comparisons are more likely.

[Arkinsaw]

John Brown is getting his final judgment just as anyone who is involved in killing and warfare.

John Brown did not kill anyone in warfare. John Brown murdered some people and hoped and planned for the murder of others in hopes of causing warfare that would end in his goal.

Murder as a precursor that results in warfare is the proper characterization. Archduke Ferdinand was murdered, not killed in a war.

To suggest that John Brown would be judged the same as "anyone who is involved in killing and warfare" does a disservice to real soldiers and people of honor.