THIS DAY IN HISTORY - Militant prohibitionist Carry Nation smashes the Hotel Carey bar

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | December 27, 2006 | SignOnSanDiego.com

[DogByte6RER]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - December 27

1900: Militant prohibitionist Carry Nation marches into the Hotel Carey in Wichita, Kansas, and wrecks the bar.

[DogByte6RER]

Thanks for nothing Carry Nation.

You ushered in the 18th Amendment and Prohibition which in turn gave rise to the likes of Al Capone, the mafia and the Kennedy family fortune.

To this day, America still suffers from your legacy...case and point, the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.

[DogByte6RER]

The original battleaxe herself...

[Gabz]

The senior Sinator from Mass is not the only remnant of her legacy we continue to suffer. The mindset of her movement continues to live on and prosper in what is now referred to as the Nanny State.

[killermedic]

Wow, she's just as pretty as all those femifascists! I love the fact that because they are ugly and miserable, they have to make men comparably as miserable by limiting our choices and decisions. Speaking generally of course.

[MeanWestTexan]

Wow, I wonder what her FR screen name is, as I swear I've seen posts that had to have been written by her here.

Must be very old.

[Gabz]

Wow, I wonder what her FR screen name is, as I swear I've seen posts that had to have been written by her here.

If that weren't so true it would actually be very funny.

[weegee]

Militant members of the Nation of Islam are engaging in the same sort of violent racketeering these days in Oakland.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

You ushered in the 18th Amendment and Prohibition which in turn gave rise to the likes of Al Capone, the mafia and the Kennedy family fortune.

It was actually the repeal of prohibition that legitimized Terd Kennedy's fortune.

There was nothing un-Constitional or illegitimate about Prohibition. Some of us just may not have liked it.

[absolootezer0]

The senior Sinator from Mass is not the only remnant of her legacy we continue to suffer. The mindset of her movement continues to live on and prosper in what is now referred to as the Nanny State.

another legacy that continues is the NFA '34, and all later ammendments. originally put into place to give all the agents hired to enforce prohibition something to do after its repeal.

[weegee]

I'm referring to busting up liquor store inventory, not insenuatingi they engage in circumventing drug prohibition.

[weegee]

Of course there was nothing unConstitutional about it, it was added TO the Constitution by Amendment.

[mdefranc]

"Wow, I wonder what her FR screen name is, as I swear I've seen posts that had to have been written by her here." - MeanWestTexan

Just search under War on Drugs, Pornography, etc.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism most of us agree with today.

So also was that act of Carrie Nation an act of vandalism; its popularity just didn't have the longevity of the Boston Tea Party...

[weegee]

Reminds me of the man who encountered the devil and said, "You don't scare me, I married your sister."

[Paine in the Neck]

Carry and J. Edgar...separated at birth?

[elkfersupper]

I hate to break this to you, but Carrie Nation and her ilk are alive, active, flourishing, well-funded and increasing in number and power every day.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

You could also argue that if it weren't for the Boston Tea Party in Massassachusetts, we wouldn't have Senator Terd Kennedy(D) of MA...

[Gabz]

I disagree with a comparison of the Boston Tea Party and the antics of Nation and her Temperance movement.

[dighton]

“Later she went to Europe. Nation decided that too much tea drinking accounted for many of England’s problems although she praised the fact that the English, unlike Americans, did not chew gum.”

[MeanWestTexan]

"Carry and J. Edgar...separated at birth?"

No, Shriners like their whiskey.