Democrats, Battle of Athens, Deacons for Defense and Justice and Gun Control

[The2ndAmendment]

Many of my Libertarian friends and I noticed a striking correlation a few nights ago.

There was a time when the political Democrat machines were engaged in voter fraud during the 1930's and 1940's. Eventually, in 1946, World War II veterans took up and Restored the Rule of Law in Athens, Tennessee.

This sent shockwaves throughout the United States at the time. Even though establishment newspapers like the New York Times weren't pleased with their masters being overthrown, they had to acknowledge that a successful revolution had taken place int he United States.

Press on the Battle of Athens, Tenn. 1946

New York Times

New York, Monday — After any war, the use of force throughout the world is almost taken for granted. Men involved in the war have been trained to use force, and they have discovered that, when you want something, you can take it. The return to peacetime methods governed by law and persuasion is usually difficult.

We in the U.S.A., who have long boasted that, in our political life, freedom in the use of the secret ballot made it possible for us to register the will of the people without the use of force, have had a rude awakening as we read of conditions in McMinn County, Tennessee, which brought about the use of force in the recent primary. 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.

In this particular case, a group of young veterans organized to oust the local machine and elect their own slate in the primary. We may deplore the use of force but we must also recognize the lesson which this incident points for us all. When the majority of the people know what they want, they will obtain it.

Any local, state or national government, or any political machine, in order to live, must give the people assurance that they can express their will freely and that their votes will be counted. The most powerful machine cannot exist without the support of the people. Political bosses and political machinery can be good, but the minute they cease to express the will of the people, their days are numbered.

This is a lesson which wise political leaders learn young, and you can be pretty sure that, when a boss stays in power, he gives the majority of the people what they think they want. If he is bad and indulges in practices which are dishonest, or if he acts for his own interests alone, the people are unwilling to condone these practices.

When the people decide that conditions in their town, county, state or country must change, they will change them. If the leadership has been wise, they will be able to do it peacefully through a secret ballot which is honestly counted, but 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.

If we want to continue to be a mature people who, at home and abroad, settle our difficulties peacefully and not through the use of force, then we will take to heart this lesson and we will jealously guard our rights. What goes on before an election, the threats or persuasion by political leaders, may be bad but it cannot prevent the people from really registering their will if they wish to.

The decisive action which has just occurred in our midst is a warning, and one which we cannot afford to overlook.

Veterans and Patriots all around the south started to organize having been inspired by the Battle of Athens. They were prepared to also Restore the Rule of Law is the political machines run by the Democrats tried to pull off the same voter fraud, as they had been doing for years.

The Knoxville Journal, August 10, 1946

Arkansas GIs Threat New Riots

Say Athens, Tenn., Outbreak May Be Mild In Comparison

Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 9 (UP) — Determined veterans' opposition to entrenched local political machines flared heatedly in several Arkansas counties today, and one GI candidate said the Athens, Tenn., rioting would be "mild in comparison if there are any irregularities" at the polls.

At Malvern, William Weaver, veteran and candidate for sheriff in Hot Springs County, charged his opponent, Ed Deere, was "custodian" of the ballot boxes and warned that "what will happen here" would eclipse the Tennessee GI political revolt.

In Yell County, near the Oklahoma border, a crowd of 1500 veterans prepared for a mass meeting tonight to draft an independent ticket to oppose the machine slate of Chancellor John E. Chambers in general elections in the "free state of Yell."

In Hot Spring County, Weaver and Coyle Collie, veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, are trying to overthrow the long-entrenched machine of Sheriff Jack Knight.

GIs at Malvern planned a meeting tomorrow night. Weaver said "we just want to get a foot in the door of Knight's 'little Tammany' machine."

Meanwhile, a five-man committee of veterans found an 87-vote discrepancy in votes cast for county treasurer, thus placing Norman Gray, veterans' candidate, in a runoff with incumbent Treasurer Ernest Stroud. The first official count declared Stroud the winner with a majority, but disgruntled GI forces appointed the committee last night to examine the ballots.

In Ouachita a hot election loomed in which veterans are opposing veterans.

Despite a no-political clause in its constitution, the Arkansas Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars entered the picture with a statement by State Commander Bob Ed. Loftin, who charged politicians were trying to "use" the VFW vote to influence undecided voters.

In Hot Springs (Garland County), a final move to defeat the only successful GI candidate against Mayor Leo McLaughlin's potent local machine, failed today.

Prosecuting Atty. Curtis Ridgeway, defeated by ex-Marine Col. Signey McMath, demanded a recount, but the new totals changed only two votes.

McMath was the only veteran-supported candidate to win the recent primary.

The Chattanooga Daily Times, Thursday, August 8, 1946

Repeat on Athens Narrowly Avoided

Crockett County Just Misses Election Day Violence

Alamo, Tenn., Aug 7 (AP) — a Crockett County political leader revealed today that violence similar to that which marked the Tennessee election at Athens last week was narrowly avoided here.

J. T. Green, post commander of the American Legion, disclosed that two mass meetings of veterans were held to dissipate tension among the supporters of an air force veteran, John Paul Butler, 26, who ran for state representative.

"Our boys were ready to go," said Green, "but we didn't want an Athens job here. We want to see what can be done legally in the matter."

Butler, whose campaign was managed by Green, was defeated by former State Sen. W. H. Stallings of near-by Friendship by 14 votes. Green said the result would be contested before the state primary board. "It would have been the same as Athens here," said Butler, "except that we quieted our boys down. We talked them out of using violence."

Butler said his opponent was supported by "a machine."

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Although the political machines temporarily recovered, within a decade of the Battle of Athens, fair and honest elections destroyed the Democrat political machines in many places.

And then something else happened: The Civil Rights Movements.

When Blacks organized militias, such as the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who marched alongside Martin Luther King, they no longer had to fear being massacred and mutilated by Democrat KKK organizations. It was because of their ability to protest peacefully (even though they were assaulted by Democrat police using non-lethal weapons, such as firehoses), through the deterrence of firearms, that blacks managed to rally in large numbers and be noticed. Being noticed was the first step in the Civil Rights Movement, and they never could have produced such large numbers (to be noticed) if they had to fear being mowed down by Democrat KKK whites.

Both whites in the late 1940's and 1950's, and blacks in the 1950's and 1960's, through the BEARING OF ARMS, were able to decimate to political machines and oppression of the Democrat Party.

Suddenly, Lyndon B Johnson, who opposed the Civil Rights Movement, had a change of heart, as did all of the other Democrats. "I'll have these N*GG**S voting Democrat for the next 200 years!"

The Democrats quickly embraced the black community in order to survive as a national party, but interestingly, that's when they also became ANTI GUN!!!!!!!!

Semi automatic weapons had existed for quite some time, even before World War II, but the Democrats weren't anti-gun then.

It's because of the Battle of Athens, Tennessee, and the Civil Rights Movement, that Democrats became anti-gun.

So it makes you wonder, if they succeeded in United Kingdom/Chinese/Japanese-like confiscation and banning of firearms, what would they do?

Why do they want to disarm us so badly? Is it because their Corrupt bullshit was destroyed by both blacks and whites using their Second Amendment rights?

Notice that blacks are the number one targets of gun-control --- by Democrats.




[MENTION=19484]The T[/MENTION] [MENTION=43268]TemplarKormac[/MENTION] [MENTION=23420]Quantum Windbag[/MENTION]

 

[TemplarKormac]

I hope we can lead a revolution without needing to resort to bloodshed.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

I hope we can lead a revolution without needing to resort to bloodshed.

The blacks did it during the Civil Rights Era, because the Deacons for Defense and Justice marched alongside them with firearms. Notice that Democrat gun control laws primarily target black communities like Chicago.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

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[paperview]

That is one breathtakingly warped version of history.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

That is one breathtakingly warped version of history.

Point out what's warped.

 

[TemplarKormac]

That is one breathtakingly warped version of history.

Coming from a revisionist like you, that's hypocritical.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

That is one breathtakingly warped version of history.

Coming from a revisionist like you, that's hypocritical.

It's amazing what they say.

There is not one fact listed here that is considered false. Even the LBJ quote can be verified.