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To: ObozoMustGo2012

You ever hear about the Whiskey Rebellion and how George Washington marched the U.S. Army into western Pennsylvania to crush it?


50 posted on 01/04/2016 10:59:59 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

You ever hear about the Whiskey Rebellion and how George Washington marched the U.S. Army into western Pennsylvania to crush it?

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And he was president at the time.


67 posted on 01/04/2016 11:06:27 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Shays’ Rebellion also comes to mind. Also the Bonus Army break up.


200 posted on 01/04/2016 12:46:43 PM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Timber Rattler; All

Did you ever hear of the Battle of Athens? (Tennessee)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29

http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ut6yPrObw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtrsk1HmOKU

Not much different here - just swap federal government and their agents with corrupt county officials.


305 posted on 01/04/2016 5:00:44 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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