John Brown: America’s First Home Grown Terrorist
John Brown, recalled by some as a martyr for his anti-slavery stance, is also recalled by others as a madman. His legendary raid on Harper’s Ferry will live forever in history books, but what fueled the madness? In 1812, was his mind so deeply traumatized when he witnessed the brutal crime of a young black boy beaten with a shovel that he could never move past it? Did that single event shape his life and play, over and over, in his mind like a never-ending film? No matter what you believe, the undisputed fact is that he was one of America’s first domestic terrorists.
Domestic Terrorism: The Definition
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia online, defines domestic terrorism as “commonly
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This new Constitution also had three branches of government, including a position created just for Brown, Commander in Chief for the Armed Forces.
In Brown’s Provisional Constitution, Article XXVIII: Property states, “All captured or confiscated property, and all property the product of the labor of those belonging to this organization and of their families, shall be held as the property of the whole, equally, without distinction; and may be used for the common benefit, or disposed of for the same object;” (Earle, 2008) Article XXXVI: Property Confiscated states, “The entire and real property of all persons known to be acting either directly or indirectly with or for the enemy, or found in arms with them, or found willingly holding slaves, shall be confiscated and taken, whenever and wherever it may be found, in either free or slave States…” (Earle, 2008)
Socialism is defined as a social and economic system characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production. Socialism can also be a political theory which establishes this system and brings it to life. (Socialism) When examining Article XXVIII, it clearly defines socialism when it is written that property shall be for the whole. It also removes the safety that the Fourth Amendment in the Constitution provides, which is the Search and Seizure amendment. The Fourth Amendment ensures that the people have a
The founding fathers that created the Constitution created a system of government that composed of three different branches. Each branch has a
John Brown is fighting for slave’s freedom and equal rights. John Brown fought for slave’s freedom because he was brought up in a household where his father was strongly against slavery. If John Brown was a terrorist, he would only be fighting for himself. Terrorists only fight for what they want. They obviously do not care about other people or what their opinions because terrorists will kill for what they want.
The practice of owning other people as “property” has affected the world profoundly. Specifically in America, While the idea was not new, it lead to ways for people to justify the process of slavery. The initial excuse was that the peoples in Africa where not Christian, so it was supposedly “ok” for them to be enslaved. Then many of these newly captured peoples became Christian. Faced with no other excuse, the lawmakers had to think of a way to mask their own greed. So they made it a racial thing. They thought up a lie, so simple, that everyone actually believed it. They took up the so-called “white mans burden” to make the “inferior” people submit. Unfortunately this asinine excuse was actually thought of as fact, and people lost track of
Slaves were considered property and not people, by calling them contrabands they would keep the same status
without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just
Yesterday April 19th,1995 Ex-Army soldier and security guard Timothy McVeigh parked his truck lined with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building downtown Oklahoma City.
The United States Constitution provides the National Government three distinctive branches of government: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branch, each with its own form of powers, duties and roles. Separation of powers and duties within the branches enable them to check and balance one another as well as balance the authority of the other two.
When Cobb said that “property of various kinds had been stolen”, I assume he meant it to incorporate the definition of personal property in a deeply comprehensive sense to include land and associated distinct property, prestige, cash, and acceptance as American citizens.
Second, John Brown was believed to be a terrorist for what he did. Both Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs. Doyle said that they were disturbed by Brown. Doc(G).John Brown was believed to be a martyr in the North and a murder in the South. I believe John Brown was a martyr, not a murderer.
(1) Constitutional Question: Does the Fifth Amendment, The Takings Clause, deny the states as well as the national government the right to take private property for public use without justly compensating the property’s owner?
The weakness of the pretense under which civil asset forfeiture is applied is emphasized by the fact that in 41 percent of cases where the civil asset forfeiture actions were challenged the government relinquished the confiscated assets. However, due to the legal barricades involved in challenging civil asset forfeitures (property is not given the protection of the constitution and is thus guilty until proven innocent) and legal costs, five sixths of the seizures go uncontested (Stop and Seize). Based on the high rate of success in challenged cases the percentage of unjust seizures in unchallenged cases may be quite high.
[A]ny property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials.
As mentions before socialism is the doctrine that espouses public ownership or control of a major means of production. It aims to achieve an equitable and efficient distribution of social goods and greater economic planning then exist under capitalism. Although the central concerns of socialism appears to be economic its ramifications extend to the moral, social and political realms, in fact together with nationalism, it is the leading ideological and political movement of the 20th century.
With homegrown terrorism becoming an issue at the current moment, our prime minister and our government should focus more of our military division on homegrown terrorism while still keeping a bit of balance balance to fighting terrorism in other countries at the same time. The reasons why include large-scale terrorist groups such as ISIS who are constantly grasping into countries like Canada and grow terrorists in other countries for recruitment, making it a huge issue. Reason two is that terrorism has already had a large toll on other countries but homegrown terrorism can be even worse, taking the Parliament Hill shooting as an example. Finally, with large military forces fighting terrorism such as the USA, we are able to focus more on the
The word "possess" has different meanings throughout this section. In the beginning of the line "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by," the word "possessed" refers to the way the colonists lived on, worked on, and owned the New World land. But in the second half of the line, one learns that the colonists were "unpossessed" by the land. In this context "unpossessed" means that the colonists were not consumed or overcome by a sense of responsibility to the land. In other words, it means that the colonists owned the land, but they did not have an overcoming feeling of responsibility towards it as an independent nation; they "were England's, still." In the line "Possessed by what we now no more possess," the first term possessed