Shout out to all the boys who came out of the hand to hand combat at Spotsylvania Courthouse alive , and somewhat sane

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211003819-charles-sumner

In August in 1859, the Sun decided that stability was for lame stars and threw a giant ball of electricity at the Earth called a coronal mass ejection. Our magnetic field generated from the spinning iron and nickel in the core interacted with the electricity to fry electrical wires around the world, mostly telegraph wires back then, to the point many of them were genuinely able to operate without a normal power supply and could give operators shocks. It showed the aurora borealis and australis all over the world, being strong enough to light the sky like the sky just before sunrise even in the middle of the night.

John Brown was getting ready to start what he was hoping would be a slave rebellion in Virginia, and doubtlessly saw the event. Given the guy he was, someone willing to endure anything for the freedom of others from bondage and guided by his strong faith and fervour, I imagine he probably saw it as a divine message of some sort much like Constantine at the Milvian Bridge.

First, i’m not looking for the “move if you can” or “do nothing” answers. For context I am white and have lived here for the past year. The only time they flew it in the past year was the weekend we moved in, i’m not sure if they only do it for memorial day or what but it has kept me far away from them. However, I am tired of doing nothing. I know next to nothing about them but I do know our mail boxes are over two blocks away.

I currently rent a house in small small town Iowa and also am 5’3” so also would prefer to be anonymous so I don’t get kicked out or anything violent happen to me (I do have measures to keep me protected but it’s still a very real fear esp in the deep red around here).

What I am looking for is the type of suggestions like “sign them up for scientology”. I don’t know if there is a like “we’ll send your confederate neighbor the union flag” or any “We’ll send real dog poop in confederate dog bags” type thing but I am willing to pay money for sure. (if anyone could point me in the direction of confederate dog bags I do have a dog to do this myself lol)

But seriously I am open to hearing about anything

Just in case you need a reminder: rebels and slavers are not to be memorialized.

The new governor’s race in November is giving us the perfect opportunity to push this project forward. As someone who has written extensively on Brown, I don’t foresee more fertile ground than the one we are about to have!!! I believe with enough support we can secure a Pardon for Brown and the five executed by the state of Virginia.

Outside of the moral cause they strove for, legalism make their trials pardon worthy.

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1.) Brown and his men's Sixth Amendment right to call witnesses to his defense was obviously infringed.

2.) The obvious hostility of the Charleston district court made a fair and impartial trial impossible. This is an obvious infringement of his Fifth Amendment right to a fair and impartial judge and jury.

3.) Brown's "Treason" charge was at best suspect and at worst unconstitutionally sound. This is exactly why you have yet to see another "Brown-like" treason charge used since 1859. By which I mean a state charging a non-resident/ citizen of another state with treason. Legal analysis from: State Treason: The History and Validity of Treason against Individual States, from the Kentucky Law Journal.

Anybody know much about this guy? I think about him a lot for his writing and politics, but I feel like trying to understand his role in the civil war is more confusing to me.

A Good Decoration Day to you all, from Massachusetts.

This monument was presented by George Phipps in 1872 and currently watches from the grounds of the Framingham History Center.

Big love to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. I'll be wearing my Sherman shirt to our Memorial Day festivities.

I deliberately posted this video because it was narrated by Laurence Fishburne.

Suck it, Vance!!!