A Tale For Today: The Civil War of 1946

[The T]

Unless someone can show me a link within, say, the last 5 years where the local police beat the poll workers and kicked them out, and were all drunk on duty, and stole every election by force. Show me that city or county first.

Or, admit that 1946 is long, long in our past.

I'll see your " local police beat the poll workers and kicked them out,"

....and raise you one Attorney-General, America’s top law enforcement officer.


1. "For much of his life, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. carried around something peculiar…an old clipping of a quote from Harlem preacher Reverend Samuel D. Proctor. Holder put the clipping in his wallet in 1971, when he was studying history at Columbia University, and kept it in wallet after wallet over the ensuing decades. What were Proctor’s words that Holder found so compelling?

“Blackness is another issue entirely apart from class in America. No matter how affluent, educated and mobile [a black person] becomes, his race defines him more particularly than anything else.”…When asked to explain the passage, Holder replied, “It really says that… I am not the tall U.S. attorney, I am not the thin United States Attorney. I am the black United States attorney. And he was saying that no matter how successful you are, there’s a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal or the black doctor with the black homeless person.”…It may seem shocking to hear these racialist views ascribed to America’s top law enforcement officer. But to people who have worked inside the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, these attitudes are perfectly familiar."
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2. “Has anyone asked Holder what exactly is the “common cause” that binds the black attorney general and the black criminal? More important, what should the black attorney general do about this common cause? Should the black criminal feel empathy for the black attorney general or more likely, do the favors only flow in one direction?

Holder’s explanation of Proctor’s quote offers some key insights into our attorney generals’ worldview. First, being “more particular” than anything else, skin color limits and defines Americans-

in other words, race comes first for Holder.

Second, despite Americans’ widespread belief in trans-racial principles such as individual liberty and equal protection, blacks are expected to show solidarity with other blacks.

And third, black law enforcement officers are expected to show this solidarity toward their racial compatriots, including black criminals.”
J. Christian Adams, “Injustice: Exposing The Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department,” p. 2.



Is it too much to ask that in this, or in any administration, all Americans be viewed through the same prism?

As a former "Law enforcement officer", let me start with this. I absolutely HATE that Eric Holder is referred to as a "Law enforcement officer". He is NOT one. He is a lawyer. He is not a cop. He has never carried a gun, or run into danger. He doesn't have the authority to put handcuffs on anyone. He'd have to issue a warrant, and an FBI agent would have to do it. Hes a scumbag, you're right. He's not a cop.

I have tremendous faith in our cops. There are about 1,000,000 of them nationwide. And they are human. ANY group of 1,000,000 humans will have bad apples, because humans are flawed. But, cops have far fewer bad apples than society in general as a %. Of that 1,000,000, I'd be less than 2% are "bad apples" and most get caught/fired/arrested within 5 years (true stat, look it up).

So, when it comes to true "tyranny", I dont buy it. True "tyranny" can only be done by the men with authority AND guns. Holder only has authority. As long as the men with guns and authority are noble, we're fine.

And only our cops and our military have guns and authority. And I have so much faith in both of those entities, that I think true tyranny just cant happen here, at least not without another 50-100 years of radical change. Our United States is so wonderful, we've evolved to a point I just dont think its possible. We have so many checks and balances.

If the military tried tyranny, we have the police and armed citizens to fight back. Think the Iraqi cavemen were tough??? Try armed Americans.

If the police were to try tyrrany, we have the military. AND, guess what? Police are under fragmented authority. Those 1,000,000 different cops? They DO NOT ANSWER to Eric Holder. They answer ONLY to their chief or sheriff, and there are hundreds of them. It is 100% IMPOSSIBLE for Eric Holder to "order" our 1,000,000 cops to do a single thing. Its done at their own will, under their fragment of authority, and most PD's....I think 90%....are under 50 officers. So mass tyranny by police is virtually a logistical impossibility.

If the politicians and lawyer try tyrranny through paper laws.................well, without men with guns enforcing them, they are just ink on paper. Thats why so few people get arrested for jaywalking. Because 99.9% of cops know it is a stupid law and just wont enforce it.




SO relax folks. We aren't under tyranny. Aren't gonna be. And we aren't gonna have a Civil War hahah

YES we are...a SOFT tyranny...but tyranny none the less. And your 'former LE creds' doesn't impress me ONE BIT.

 

[Mr Natural]

If things keep up? YOU will have no choice...

The battle will be in the streets and if this government isn't stopped from their present course, their tyranny? YOU will be an unwilling participant.

The price of Liberty lives even on your doorstep.

Time to step up and defend even that which might be distasteful to yourself...

Hallelujah- The Patriot - YouTube

Things?

What things?

Do YOU even pay a modest amount of attention to the news? Or are you just willing to shield yourself by denial of what's happening around you as you focus elsewhere?

IRS, DOJ, ObamaCare...to name a few...

YOU too are being run roughshod over and told to comply or else.

Did you bother to read the OP? How tyranny gets a foothold, and how citizens saved their own liberty from the tyranny that was all around them?

R I F.

A bigger shit I could not give about any of those issues.

Get back to me when you can come up with something important enough for me to risk life and limb over.

 

[Moonglow]

Is it too much to ask that in this, or in any administration, all Americans be viewed through the same prism?

That's just the point in fact, blacks have not been treated the same as whites throughout US history.

 

[The T]

Things?

What things?

Do YOU even pay a modest amount of attention to the news? Or are you just willing to shield yourself by denial of what's happening around you as you focus elsewhere?

IRS, DOJ, ObamaCare...to name a few...

YOU too are being run roughshod over and told to comply or else.

Did you bother to read the OP? How tyranny gets a foothold, and how citizens saved their own liberty from the tyranny that was all around them?

R I F.

A bigger shit I could not give about any of those issues.

Get back to me when you can come up with something important enough for me to risk life and limb over.

^Missed the point entirely...Live in the NOW and deal with it later? Typical crap that gets us into these messes.

A word for YOU:

ap·a·thy

noun \ˈa-pə-thē\

1
: lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness
2
: lack of interest or concern : indifference

Just react when it happens and refuse to stop it before it does...

Again WHY we are in this mess, and YOU are typical.

SAD.

 

[Mr Natural]

Do YOU even pay a modest amount of attention to the news? Or are you just willing to shield yourself by denial of what's happening around you as you focus elsewhere?

IRS, DOJ, ObamaCare...to name a few...

YOU too are being run roughshod over and told to comply or else.

Did you bother to read the OP? How tyranny gets a foothold, and how citizens saved their own liberty from the tyranny that was all around them?

R I F.

A bigger shit I could not give about any of those issues.

Get back to me when you can come up with something important enough for me to risk life and limb over.

^Missed the point entirely...Live in the NOW and deal with it later? Typical crap that gets us into these messes.

A word for YOU:

ap·a·thy

noun \ˈa-pə-thē\

1
: lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness
2
: lack of interest or concern : indifference

Just react when it happens and refuse to stop it before it does...

Again WHY we are in this mess, and YOU are typical.

SAD.

And that mess you talk about being a democrat in the White House who happens to be black as opposed to an old white repupublican guy.

Too bad for you.

 

[The T]

A bigger shit I could not give about any of those issues.

Get back to me when you can come up with something important enough for me to risk life and limb over.

^Missed the point entirely...Live in the NOW and deal with it later? Typical crap that gets us into these messes.

A word for YOU:

ap·a·thy

noun \ˈa-pə-thē\

1
: lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness
2
: lack of interest or concern : indifference

Just react when it happens and refuse to stop it before it does...

Again WHY we are in this mess, and YOU are typical.

SAD.

And that mess you talk about being a democrat in the White House who happens to be black as opposed to an old white repupublican guy.

Too bad for you.

Has ZERO to do with parties but actions by BOTH.

Nice try.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Is it too much to ask that in this, or in any administration, all Americans be viewed through the same prism?

That's just the point in fact, blacks have not been treated the same as whites throughout US history.

So....when do you suggest we begin viewing all Americans through that same prism?

 

[Wry Catcher]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

 

[Moonglow]

Is it too much to ask that in this, or in any administration, all Americans be viewed through the same prism?

That's just the point in fact, blacks have not been treated the same as whites throughout US history.

So....when do you suggest we begin viewing all Americans through that same prism?

Now would be nice if we judge people upon the content of the character and not their color.

 

[PoliticalChic]

That's just the point in fact, blacks have not been treated the same as whites throughout US history.

So....when do you suggest we begin viewing all Americans through that same prism?

Now would be nice if we judge people upon the content of the character and not their color.

The "Now" is my point.

Folks like you continue to either bring up ancient history, or mislabel various situations such as inequality of outcome as 'racism.'

If you read, consider Ms. Coulter's scholarly and well documented tome, "Mugged," and....while you may not change your views, you will be more informed.

 

[PoliticalChic]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

Interesting that you continue the smear of folks who are willing to confront the tsunami of MSM, the reigning political Liberal masters, and pop culture...

....evincing far more courage than you have.

Isn't that so?

 

[The T]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

Interesting that you continue the smear of folks who are willing to confront the tsunami of MSM, the reigning political Liberal masters, and pop culture...

....evincing far more courage than you have.

Isn't that so?

Precisely. They are addressing it fully with open minds/hearts with open invitations for any and all to challenge them and discuss it. Hiding? Hardly...it's out in the open.

 

[The T]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

They are out in the open arena willing and eager to discuss it with all comers...and how is this hiding exactly?

Could it be there are those as you afraid to challenge them in the arena of ideas or does thou choose to hide behind your keyboard on these boards and complain of them and their public stance?

 

[Mr Natural]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

They are out in the open arena willing and eager to discuss it with all comers...and how is this hiding exactly?

Could it be there are those as you afraid to challenge them in the arena of ideas or does thou choose to hide behind your keyboard on these boards and complain of them and their public stance?

All comers that make it past the call screeners, that is.

 

[Moonglow]

So....when do you suggest we begin viewing all Americans through that same prism?

Now would be nice if we judge people upon the content of the character and not their color.

The "Now" is my point.

Folks like you continue to either bring up ancient history, or mislabel various situations such as inequality of outcome as 'racism.'

If you read, consider Ms. Coulter's scholarly and well documented tome, "Mugged," and....while you may not change your views, you will be more informed.

You do the same thing little miss hypocrite.

 

[The T]

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

They are out in the open arena willing and eager to discuss it with all comers...and how is this hiding exactly?

Could it be there are those as you afraid to challenge them in the arena of ideas or does thou choose to hide behind your keyboard on these boards and complain of them and their public stance?

All comers that make it past the call screeners, that is.

If it's OFF TOPIC? As a matter of course they don't make it past the screener unless they lie about it to which I've heard plenty of it.

You're getting better, but not quite there yet...keep trying.

 

[The T]

Now would be nice if we judge people upon the content of the character and not their color.

The "Now" is my point.

Folks like you continue to either bring up ancient history, or mislabel various situations such as inequality of outcome as 'racism.'

If you read, consider Ms. Coulter's scholarly and well documented tome, "Mugged," and....while you may not change your views, you will be more informed.

You do the same thing little miss hypocrite.

But with ONE caviat...(know that word little man? If not? Look it up)...

Done with history to back her assertion.

See the difference? Of course you do, No?

 

[Plasmaball]

Told you passive aggressive call for civil war..they have been trained now to not outright say it because they would get in trouble for it, but oh how they wish for it.

Fucking anti american treasonous losers.

 

[Wry Catcher]

When government becomes riddled with corruption and intimidation,....then, there is really very little Americans can do....but rebel.
And so it came to pass.

1. "In 1946 a corrupt government was overthrown in Athens,TN by a fed up citizenry. Corruption in the election process had made it impossible for the citizens votes to be counted. The corruption was finally met by brute force and rule of law was established once again..... If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions..... if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee." Eleanor Roosevelt on the Second Amendment & The Battle of Athens, page 1





2. After the war, returning veterans had no interest in maintaining the status quo. They had, after all, just fought a war against fascism and were well-trained to deal with home-grown dictators. In 1946, the vets organized and ran a slate of candidates against the local thugocracy. When the sheriff and his deputies tried to steal the election – using violence and intimidation to do it – the vets gathered their weapons. "
The Second Amendment and the Battle of Athens ? Behind Blue Lines

3. “It was like Nazi Germany here,” said thirty-seven-year-old, graying, Navy veteran Ralph Duggan. “Cantrell’s deputies were nothing but a lot of swaggering, strutting storm-troopers, drunk most of the time, beating up our citizens for the slightest reason. Know what they did? In elections, they just kicked out the poll-watchers or else they took the ballot boxes to be counted in the privacy of Cantrell’s bank. They even used guns and blackjacks, back in 1940, to prevent 400 people from voting...... the Circuit Court jury brought in a guilty verdict against three Cantrell deputies. But the judge simply fined the deputies one cent each, told them to be good boys, and let them go free. " Ralph G. Martin’s," The GI War"




4. "... in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. .... eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator..... the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent..... citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. .... The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got.





5. In the summer of 1945 veterans began returning home; by 1946 the streets of Athens overflowed with uniforms..... The veterans fielded candidates for five offices, but interest centered on the race for sheriff between Knox Henry, who had served in the North African campaign, and Paul Cantrell.

6. .... veterans from Blount County had offered to come help watch the polls. Mansfield began building an army of his own. “It has come to my attention,” he announced, “that certain elements intend to create a disturbance at and around the polls. … In order to see that law and order is maintained … I will have several hundred deputies patrolling the county.” He hired all of them from outside the county, some from out of state. They would crowd inside every voting precinct. And they would be armed.




7. .... Tom Gillespie, an elderly black farmer from Union Road, stepped inside the eleventh-precinct polling place in the Athens Water Works on Jackson Street. Windy Wise, a Cantrell guard, told Gillespie, “******, you can’t vote here.” When Tom protested, Wise struck him with brass knuckles. Gillespie dropped his ballot and ran for the door. Wise pulled a pistol and shot him in the back ... the two GI poll watchers, Ed Vestal and Charles Scott, had been seized and held hostage inside the Water Works by Wise and another Cantrell deputy,...






8. .... a few other veterans, perhaps a dozen, he headed for the National Guard armory. There, he said in a 1969 interview, he “broke down the armory doors and took all the rifles, two Thompson sub-machine guns, and all the ammunition we could carry, loaded it up in the two-ton truck and went back to GI headquarters and passed out seventy high-powered rifles and two bandoleers of ammunition with each one.” By 9:00 P.M. Paul Cantrell, Pat Mansfield, State Rep. George Woods, who was also a member of the election commission, and about fifty deputies were locked inside the jail and going through the ballot boxes.

9. .... the night exploded in automatic weapons fire punctuated by shotgun blasts. “I fired the first shot,” White claimed, “then everybody started shooting from our side.” A deputy ran for the jail. “I shot him; he wheeled and fell inside of the jail.” Bullets ricocheted up and down White Street. “I shot a second man; his leg flew out from under him, and he crawled under a car.” The veterans bombarded the jail for hours,.... dynamite was tossed toward the jail;.... the jailhouse porch jumped off its foundation. The deputies barricaded in the courthouse a block away rushed onto the balcony, eager to surrender. The jail’s defenders staggered from their ruined stronghold and handed the ballot boxes over to the veterans.

10. As for the larger results of the Athens rebellion, the GIs universally hailed the return of the “independent vote” to the community and the election of “fine people” to lead it..... Knox Henry served two terms as sheriff of McMinn County and was succeeded by Otto Kennedy. Paul Cantrell, after seeking temporary asylum in Chattanooga, returned to Etowah and continued to operate the bank there with his brothers..... There are no signs or monuments to commemorate the event; people have forgotten or do not wish to remember. But the graying manager of a local store, a friendly sort and so gentle with his grandchildren, squeezed off round after round at the jail that night. And the driver snoozing behind the wheel of his cab, not really caring whether he catches a fare or not, helped wrap and toss the deadly bundles of dynamite that sailed through the night air. You can bet they remember." The Battle Of Athens | American History Lives at American Heritage





The Battle Of Athens: Fighting for Liberty, Restoring the Rule of Law - YouTube

A nice story. Somehow I don't see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck's alter egos standing up to anyone in real life. They're to use to standing their ground while hiding behind a microphone or keyboard and shooting off their mouth.

Interesting that you continue the smear of folks who are willing to confront the tsunami of MSM, the reigning political Liberal masters, and pop culture...

....evincing far more courage than you have.

Isn't that so?

Nope. But I'm sane and I do wonder about you.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Every country that I can think of was born of blood and ended in blood. Civil war after the inevitable collapse of this terrorist state is assured.