Alan, It's easy to figure. You had a lot of hypocrites rampant in the land at that time. For some reason, not easily discernible to people like you and me, these people, moreover, thought they had a special line to the Creator allowing them to do just about anything on earth they wanted to do, that is, whatever occurred to them, and then because of this special dispensation, they thought it was sure to be morally correct. This to me, certainly, is a great, great leap in faith. So this listening to a "higher Law" by many of these people allowed ol' John Brown to murder the Doyles on Pottawatomie Creek and two other men. And his grander plan called for killing everyone along Pottawatomie Creek, but he backed down on that when Townsely, one of his accomplices, refused to join in on this killing project, thinking it, impliedly, cowardly. For some reason, Northern-biased histories fail to note the fact that the Doyles, James P. Doyle and his two sons Drury and William, held indictments on their persons for the arrest of one John Brown for intimidating a Territorial Supreme Court Judge Sterling G. Cato. I supppose a prosecutor today would be quite interested in that sort of connection in relation to multiple capital crimes. I call this kind of history, for lack of a better term, "Lying by Omission." Someone from KCPT TV said to me recently, when I started talking like that: "You can't say that!" I begged to differ with her. I told her I could say anything I wanted to as long as I could back it up with facts, that is, as long as we live in a free country. My views didn't settle that well with her, I think, but I'm not changing my way of thinking and being for anyone, media especially, and I don't care whether I particpate in their projects or not. I'm devoted to the truth not to what is politically correct. Thanks, Alan, for your views, which I concur with.

Don G.