Posted on 01/03/2021 10:31:33 AM PST by JayAr36
The returning GI's from WW11 rebelled against local county corruption.
Look it up. Took place in Athens, TN in 1946.
I wonder how long this country will put up with the existing national corruption.
Two key words: “local” v “national”.
Bump!
Yep. We are an RCH from another insurrection and it is long past due.
Here’s the movie:
American Story - The Battle of Athens - 1946 Athens, Tennessee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c-Dsg4X4Dk
We’re pretty much there.
Legacy
Joseph C. Goulden, in his history of immediate post-war America, The Best Years 1945-1950, discussed the Battle of Athens, how it sparked political ex-GI movements in three other Tennessee counties, as well as other boss-ruled Southern states, led to a convention with representatives from several Southern states, and how it raised fears that veterans would resort to further violence.[17] The Battle of Athens came in the mid-1940s, when there was much concern that returning GIs would be dangerously violent. Those concerns were addressed in an opinion piece by Warden Lawes, the author of Twenty Thousand Years at Sing Sing, in a New York Times opinion piece.[21] In a newspaper column, Eleanor Roosevelt had expressed a somewhat popular opinion that GIs should be checked for violent tendencies before they were demobilized. Bill White, the leader of Athens’ “fighting band”, came to see her point.[3]:38 One of the reasons the GI League collapsed was the continuing GI related violence in McMinn County.[22][3]:23–24 The Battle of Athens initially received criticism in the press. Coverage however quickly faded, and after Alan J. Gould, an executive with the Associated Press, told the Conference of State Directors of the Veterans Administration that the AP would try to suppress the use of the word “veteran” in conjunction with crime stories, the story of GI violence began to disappear.[23]
Two key words: “local” v “national”
Remember the weekly Freeper gatherings outside Walter Reed Hospital back in the day? How about reserving a sidewalk or somesuch outside the Capitol in D.C.? We could keep congress persona on edge every week for 4 years.
The ballots and machines in Georgia are held locally. Same for Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. A rifle armed committee could seize the machines and demand an OPEN public accounting...right there safe under their rifles.
THAT I could agree with, and be there.
Those machines and software are now “sanitized”, with a few exceptions. The OPEN public accounting is over.
Along with predatory policing, bribery, voter intimidation and a host of other malfeasance the locals said enough. A number of local men, most of them ex-GI's laid siege to the local station house and using their training and combat experience put a hurting on the cops. Don't recall if anyone was killed but boy did the locals bring it to the cops.
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