Then why don't you apply the same standard to [MENTION=20155]paperview[/MENTION] ???
Why is he allowed to mention a city, but I am not? That is DOUBLESPEAK.
Hey doof: One more time: Each poster speaks for himself -- and the Whiskey Rebellion --- in which a strong Federal government corralled the militia to put down the uprising, which Washington leading the charge -- was about more than...
.a city.
The question to be asked, as George put it: Is our children learning?
Most people who know and understand history, recognize the importance of the Whiskey rebellion in our fledgling and young country.
Most people have never even heard of the Athens "battle."
BTW: After they "won" in Athens -- the corrupt powers were simply replaced by a more powerful machine. It was a brave stance, but they didn't really accomplish as much as you think they did.
Most people never heard of it, today, because its not taught in Government Public School. You can rest assured that the newspapers of the day went wild for weeks over the event, and veteran groups all around the south were primed and ready to take up arms to end voter fraud by the Democrats. In fact, your statement proves that Public Schools are either abysmally failing in their mission to educate our youth about American History, or that Public Schools have a political mission to omit such instances in our history.
One would think that our Public Schools would teach about the only successful revolution in the United States during the 20th Century, wouldn't you?
The Battle of Athens was also about "more than a city," it was a response to the political machine corruption of the Democrats all around the South, and it worked. Those regimes fell all over the place in the ensuing decade.
Then blacks learned from it, and armed themselves (Deacons for Defense and Justice) and marched right alongside Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights era, also opposed by Lydon B Johns and the Democrats. Listen to the opening lines of this video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwueChZUgf8]NO GUNS FOR NEGROES 2of2 THE RACIST ROOTS OF GUN CONTROL - YouTube[/ame]
When the Democrats realized that armed citizens (black and white) had finally destroyed them in the South, they suddenly embraced the Civil Rights movement (I"ll have these ******* voting Democrat for the 200 years" -- LBJ), but simultaneously took a major stance AGAINST GUNS
WOAH WOAH WOAH
The Democrats became anti-gun after guns defeated them!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EfhAFA2yFE]WOAH-OH-OH-AH-AH-AH-AAAA-HA-AH-AH-AH - YouTube[/ame]