John R. Houk
© September 8, 2017
Do you know the history behind the term “Abolitionism”? I am
guessing if you are a product of America’s current Leftist education system and
the Left’s penchant to revise history, you might be a little clueless.
In American history Abolition was a movement to free
African-Americans from the bonds of slavery. By the time Republican Abraham
Lincoln was elected in 1860, the Southern Slave States were concerned Lincoln’s
election would mean interference in the slave economy and thus rebelled against
the Northern Free States. The irony about Southern slave concerns is that
President Lincoln never acted on slavery until 1863 (Lincoln and Emancipation Proclamation), two
years into the roughly four year Civil War that ended in 1865.
So, what has me reminiscing about American history and the
Abolitionist Movement? I ran into a Tim Brown post at the Freedom Outpost
with this title: “Why Abolitionism is Replacing the Pro-Life
Movement”.
After seeing the title, I had to ask myself, “What in the
world does the Abolitionist Movement that led to freeing the slaves have to do
with the Pro-Life Movement?”
Well, it turns out that a movement is being initiated in
Oklahoma that believes the tactics of the Pro-Life Movement have been
ineffectual in reversing the curse of killing babies as a method of birth
control. The movement being initiated in Oklahoma is called Abolitionism.
Here’s an excerpt from the Freedom Outpost article (which I will be cross
posting below my thoughts):
While the pro-life movement may
mean well, it has the wrong concept of dealing with the murder of the unborn.
The pro-life movement, like its progressive counterparts, want to
incrementally push their agenda.
The problem is that they are
always allowing space and reason for the murder of the unborn.
Abolitionism in the modern context reasons that Pro-Life has
been too tepid on why there is a Pro-Life Movement; viz., to radically inject
the Christian Faith and vocally proclaim the Word of God and the moral
ramification in Christ on killing babies. Especially looking at sexual
promiscuity of unwed people causing a pregnancy.
The centrality is to know wrong is wrong and right is right.
Thus, any concept of incrementalism to end abortion is nearly as bad or wrong
or sinful as the abortion itself.
WHOA! That’s some good preaching!
But there is a concern that needs to be measured in this new
Abolitionism to end pre-born baby-killing. My concern is that some idiot
Christian will believe God has called him to act seditiously against the rule
of law to the point of even killing pro-abortion advocates or doctors
performing the baby-killing procedure.
Pre-Civil War abolitionists were also a God-fearing
Christian lot that correctly believed slavery was morally reprehensible. As
long as the Abolitionist activist civil disobedience was limited to helping
escaped slaves to freedom by some kind of underground railroad so-to-speak,
then I believe that was awesome. The modern era’s Martin Luther King is a
classic American example of proper civil disobedience to cause social-cultural
change.
The Abolitionists of Abraham Lincoln’s day practiced proper
civil disobedience to free slaves. The Southern Plantation elitists hated Abolitionist
civil disobedience because it messed with the culture they grew up in and
believed should be maintained – at the very least to protect the family
business.
Abolitionists were a bit more radical than President
Lincoln. They wanted to end slavery yesterday, while Lincoln was willing to
work compromises for the sake of the Southern economy. Southerners who had
become rich from slave operated plantations wanted nothing to do with Abolition
immediacy or Lincoln gradual slave elimination.
Some abolitionists were so extreme that they were willing to
use violent terrorist tactics against Slave States to make a point. Such
Abolitionist thinking did more to harden the Southern populace to support the
wealthy plantation elites than to abolish slavery. Right or wrong, Americans
don’t like to be told what to do. Fear tactics merely drove hostile public
opinion against the Free State in the Southern States.
Abolitionists were peaceful protestors for the most part
often active in aiding runaway slaves to escape to Canada. The most famous or
infamous violent Abolitionist was John Brown who believe it was his duty to God
to incite violence which he thought would embolden slaves to rise up against
their masters and end slavery. Even many Northerners condemned Brown’s violent
tactics, but in the end after he was hung for murder, John Brown became a rally
cry legend of the Northern States and Union Army to take the fight to the
Confederate Army.
The reality was though, John Brown was a seditious rabble rouser
who killed innocent people. He began his violent campaign in the
then Kansas Territory and it ended with his capture in Harper’s Ferry Virginia
in 1859. After which he was tried, convicted and hung for murder.
Posted by The Road to Now
Published on Aug 12, 2017
Our guest on the Road to Now for
Monday, Aug. 14, Randall Fuller author of, "The Book that Changed
America," discusses John Brown's infamous raid on Harper's Ferry.
The irony of John Brown terrorism even in my grade school
days in the 60s, the portrait of heroism of old Hollywood still made him the
patriotic hero. Check this brief clip which I spotted Errol Flynn and Olivia de
Havilland showing sympathy for John Brown as he was led to the gallows:
Posted by Rick Davi
Published
on Nov 8, 2016
Clip
from "Santa Fe Trail" (1940; 110 min)
Santa
Fe Trail is a 1940 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and
starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey and Ronald Reagan.
Written by Robert Buckner, the film is about the abolitionist John Brown and
his fanatical attacks on slavery as a prelude to the American Civil War. Subthemes
include J.E.B. Stuart and George Armstrong Custer as they duel for the hand of
Kit Carson Holliday.
The
film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, and the seventh Flynn–de
Havilland collaboration.
Some of the speech the actor
portraying John Brown was actually spoken by the real Brown at his hanging
which would later add to his legend as an Abolitionist hero.
And here is a song that Union
troops actually sang about John Brown adapted from the Battle Hymn of the
Republic:
Posted
by Kálmán Tóth
Published
on Oct 11, 2010
Very inspirational to a grade
school kid.
But face it, John Brown went
beyond civil disobedience escalating toward terrorism that cost the lives of
people who disagreed with him. My concern there is a person listening to the
new message of 21st century abolitionism that my sense God has
called him to seditious murder to bring attention that abortion is murder.
That person will not only
face the same result as John Brown, but in this day of lying Leftists, laws
aimed at all Christian morality will bring persecution to the Bible Believing
Christians that may not have been seen since before Rome became a government
ordained Christian empire.
Tim Brown’s (fairly
certain no relation to John Brown) article promoting the new Abolitionism
to save pre-born babies from murder centers around a couple of Okies joining
the Freedom Outpost team: Dan Fisher and T. Russell Hunter. Brown
focuses on Hunter’s five tenets of the new Abolitionism that should be more
activist oriented than the current Pro-Life Movement. The radical key of the
new Abolitionism is ending the concept of “incrementalism”.
Here is the Brown article
that culminates with a Hunter video preaching the new Abolitionism five tenets.
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Why
Abolitionism is Replacing the Pro-Life Movement
By TIM BROWN
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
I am excited to announce that
very soon we will be having a few contributors from the state of Oklahoma.
Among those contributors, we are hoping to welcome gubernatorial candidate Dan Fisher. However, to give
you a taste of a man who has works that demonstrate his faith, I'd like to
introduce you to T. Russell Hunter.
Mr. Hunter took time to speak
with me over the weekend and we are excited about a new video that is set to
rock Oklahoma politics on Wednesday and quite possibly the entire nation.
In preparation of that
release, I thought it appropriate to point you to a short talk that Hunter did
on why abolitionism is replacing the pro-life movement.
While the pro-life movement
may mean well, it has the wrong concept of dealing with the murder of the
unborn. The pro-life movement, like its progressive counterparts, want to
incrementally push their agenda.
The problem is that they are
always allowing space and reason for the murder of the unborn.
Abolitionists do not allow
for that at all.
Plus, abolitionists think
like then presidential candidate Donald Trump
when he stated that a mother who engages in the murder of her unborn baby is
not a victim, but a criminal and should be treated as such, along
with the abortionist and anyone having a hand in the murder.
With that stated, Hunter lays
out the five tenets of abolition and why the pro-life movement must be
abandoned if people are serious about ending the murder of the unborn.
Watch the video, listen to
his presentation and see if you do not agree that those who believe in the
sanctity of human life must become abolitionists and not simply be content with
the scraps that pro-life representatives are throwing to us in order to
maintain the status quo and bow the knee to the state and Molech.
Posted
by AbolishHumanAbortion
Published
on Mar 28, 2017
Abolitionist
Russell Hunter on the five tenets of abolitionism and why the pro-life movement
must be abandoned and those who seek an end to child sacrifice should become
abolitionists.
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New Abolitionism and Baby-Killing
John R. Houk
© September 8, 2017
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Why Abolitionism is Replacing the Pro-Life Movement
Tim Brown is an author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com. He is husband to
his "more precious than rubies" wife, father of 10 "mighty
arrows", jack of all trades, Christian and lover of liberty. He resides in
the U.S. occupied Great State of South Carolina. Tim is also an affiliate for
the Joshua Mark 5 AR/AK hybrid semi-automatic
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