Posted on 04/20/2019 6:59:07 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
With passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). ---SNIP--- the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African-Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan.
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> In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. <
Please do not let that fact become public knowledge! It will ruin the narrative put forth by the Democrats and the mainstream media.
I don’t recall ever being taught this in school
If it happened today the FBI would arrest the Republican militia and the 9th circuit would rule that the KKK may operate unimpeded in sanctuary cities.
In January 1871, Republican Senator John Scott of Pennsylvania convened a congressional committee to hear testimony from witnesses of Klan atrocities.
In February, Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts introduced his anti-Klan bill, intended to enforce both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Butler’s bill was narrowly defeated in the House, whereupon Rep. Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio, introduced a substitute bill, only slightly less sweeping than Butler’s original.
This bill brought a few holdout Republicans into line, and the bill narrowly passed the House, sailed through the Senate, and was signed into law on April 20 by President Ulysses S. Grant.[
Why can’t this law be used to protect 2nd amendment rights?
As later amended and codified as section 1983
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42 U.S.C. § 1983 now reads:[3]
Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.
For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
Section 1983 made relief—in the form of money damages—available to those whose constitutional rights had been violated by a person acting under State authority. Normally, constitutional rights violations are remedied by specific performance including injunctions by the courts.
Thus, if a person’s right to due process was violated by a prison guard who was said to be acting under the authority of the state, under § 1983, that person could bring suit for monetary damages against the prison guard. Without § 1983, that person would have to seek an injunction by the courts for the due process violation. The problem with such an action by the court is that injunctions, which instruct a party on penalty of contempt to do or not do some action, cannot apply to past harm, only future harm. So, essentially the person would have an actionable cause—the constitutional violation—with no adequate remedy.
Most § 1983 claims are brought against prison officials by prisoners, but prisoner claims are usually dismissed as being without merit. Claims can be brought by anyone stating a proper cause of action.
On November 17, 1871 the NRA was founded largely because of this chaos.
“African-Americans and white Republicans” gotta love the weasel wording here as if there were no black republicans.
No, it wasn’t! The NRA was founded to teach Northerners returning from the Civil War better firearms training. It was *not* founded to help blacks defend themselves.
I figured it was a law requiring Democrats to be KKK members...
In other words the Republicans organized militias needed preparations for on going insurrection in the democratic held South. The movie on Netflix called "Free State of Jones" (2016) gets into this a little
the democrat conventions a long time ago was nearly full of people in Klan robs. The party has not change in the slightest for the better. The racism is far far worse today in the democrat party then when the Klan was at it's peak. Today it's based on pity and complete absolute superiority to the point they don't even think about it. It's no longer based on hate. hate would mean there is a feeling that there is a a threat
To understand this type of racism. "It's their culture" is a common statement now a days. Usually to disregard obviously bad things that culture does at the same time does not consider that to be a problem or a threat. Pick an example: such as: 9 year old girl marry a 52 yo man. Think logically what does that mean? "it's their culture"
racial superiority of the left believes which they don't even realize exists. "Drivers ID required for voting is racists" You tell me why is that racism? Is it because blacks does not have access to those types of ID required for voting?
How about another one: The "Drinking fountain" was a place to socialize which is why some cultures where not allowed near it. Today they call it "safe spaces" which has exactly the same affect.
The training was set up to help train the militia for future wars and/or insurrection. The Klan was clearly insurrection among the democrats which formed the same year the NRA was formed.
Horse boogers.
BTW, in the 4th judicial district (North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, etc.) the right to sue for redress
has been held by judge-made law to apply ONLY to descendants of slaves.
IE, no Asians, Hispanics, whites, native Americans, Pacific Islands, or others, need apply.
(This was the rubric by which a very leftist judge gutted the Duke lacrosse players lawsuits — the city of Durham even wrote in their brief that the above statute did not apply to ‘white lacrosse players’.)
That’s called ‘equal justice under law’ — NOT.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Antifa?
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Antifa?
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People started punching back, so those $600.00 monthly checks to riot and tear stuff up doesn’t look so attractive any more.
I have been wondering about this for so very long. Thank you so much for posting it.
It would be interesting to know which Supreme Court justices voted to overturn the law and who appointed them.
The Klan wasn’t insurrection at the time?
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