God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (12 page)

Jefferson, who had actually encapsulated God in only six words: "All men are created Brown was twenty when Jefferson died. "This perfect gentleman, sophisticated, scientific, wise," John Brown went on, "was able to write those incomparable sacred words while owning slaves. Tell me: Am I really the only person to realize that he, by his example, made our beautiful country an evil society from the very first, where subservience of persons of color to white people was deemed in perfect harmony with natural law?"

"I want to get this straight," I

"Are you saying

that Thomas Jefferson, possibly our country's most beloved founding father, after George Washington, was an evil man?"

"Let that, while my body lies

in the

grave," said John Brown, "be my truth which goes marchin' on."

(Choral

of one stanza

"Battle Hymn

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This is Kurt

signing off in the lethal

injection facility at Huntsville, Texas. Until the next ta

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