The Bad guys do what the bad guys do because they know that the self-proclaimed good people stand back and do nothing and for the most part they are right (1 John 2:4).
You have heard the evil prevails because good men do nothing, nothing could be further from the truth for good men do not allow evil to prevail (Romans 12:21)!
Good men do what the men of Athens, Tennessee did.
The Battle of Athens
2 AUGUST 1946
I. Introduction
The constitution.org reports On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud — forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff’s deputies — by the local political boss. They got no help.
These Americans’ absolute refusal to knuckle-under had been hardened by service in World War II. Having fought to free other countries from murderous regimes, they rejected vicious abuse by their county government.
These Americans had a choice. Their state’s Constitution – Article 1, Section 26 – recorded their right to keep and bear arms for the common defense (Tennessee Constitution). Few “gun control” laws had been enacted.
II. The Setting
These Americans were Tennesseeans of McMinn County, located between Chattanooga and Knoxville, in Eastern Tennessee. The two main towns were Athens and Etowah.
McMinn Countians had long been independent political thinkers. They also had long:
• Accepted bribe-taking by politicians and/or the Sheriff to overlook illicit whiskey-making and gambling;
• Financed the sheriff’s department from fines – usually for speeding or public drunkenness – which promoted false arrests;
• Put up with voting fraud by both Democrats and Republicans.
Tennessee State law barred voting fraud:
• Ballot boxes had to be shown to be empty before voting;
• Poll-watchers had to be allowed;
• Armed law enforcement officers were barred from polling places;
• Ballots had to be counted where any voter could watch.
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III. The Circumstances
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