[Dixielandjazz] Re: Glory, glory

[Patrick Cooke]

Jack Tracy said:
  I'll be 79 this month, and I am still not old enough to agree that any
> person has the god-given right to judge another human being's right to 
> live
> or die.
     Jack, I'll be 78 next manth, but I don't see that that has anything to 
do with what we're talking about.
     I'm normally against capital punishment, because a I believe a lot of 
innocent people wind up being unjustly executed; but I find myself 
occasionally making exceptions to my non-excution policy....notably John 
Brown, Charles Manson, Osama bin Laden, Pohl Pot, and any number of 
slightly lesser offenders.
     I concede Jack, that you are truly holier than I.
Let's take it off list, shall we?

Jazz content: "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you."  :-)

Pat Cooke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Tracy" <JackTracy26 at msn.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; "Patrick Cooke" <amazingbass at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown


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> From: "Patrick Cooke" <amazingbass at cox.net>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:12 AM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Battle Hymn & John Brown
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>> Not all murderers were abolitionists, neither were all abolitionists
>> murderers; but the John Brown whom Julia Howe elevated to sainthood with
>> her
>> lyrics was indeed both a serial mass murderer and an abolitonist.  He and
>> his sons killed dozens of people, some entire families, in Kansas; and 
>> was
>> primary cause of the state being named "bleeding Kansas."  He was 
>> captured
>> at Harpers Ferry by a federal force led by captain Robert E. Lee, who was
>> still an officer in the U.S. Army at the time.   Brown's legal defense
>> tried
>> to claim insanity, but he was found guilty and hanged.  I believe he was
>> indeed insane, but I'm glad they hanged him anyway.  He needed hangin'.
>>          Pat Cooke
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