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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 1750901" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>Guess there's something to it.</p><p></p><p>The Battle of Athens made national headlines. Most outsiders' reports had the errors usual in coverage of large-scale, night-time events. A New York Times editorialist on 3 August savaged the GIs, who:</p><p></p><p> "...quite obviously - though we hope erroneously - felt that there was no city, county, or State agency to whom they could turn for justice.</p><p></p><p> ... "There is a warning for all of us in the occurrence...and above all a warning for the veterans of McMinn County, who also violated a fundamental principle of democracy when they arrogated to themselves the right of law enforcement for which they had no election mandate. Corruption, when and where it exists, demands reform, and even in the most corrupt and boss-ridden communities there are peaceful means by which reform can be achieved. But there is no substitute, in a democracy, for orderly process." (NYT, 3 Aug 1946, p. 14.)</p><p></p><p>The editorialist did not see:</p><p></p><p> * McMinn Countians' many appeals for outside help;</p><p> * some ruthless people only respect force;</p><p> * that it was wrong to equate use of force by evil-doers (Cantrell and Mansfield) with the righteous (the GIs).</p><p></p><p>The New York Times:</p><p></p><p> * never saw that Cantrell and Mansfield's wholesale election fraud, enforced at gun-point, trampled the Rule of Law;</p><p> * feared citizens' restoring the Rule of Law by armed force.</p><p></p><p>Other outsiders, e.g., Time and Newsweek, agreed. (See Time, 12 August 1946, p. 20; Newsweek, 12 Aug 1946, p. 31 and 9 September 1946, p. 38).</p><p></p><p>The 79th Congress adjourned on 2 August 1946, when the Battle of Athens ended. However, Representative John Jennings, Jr., from Tennessee decried:</p><p></p><p> * McMinn County's sorry situation under Cantrell and Mansfield;</p><p> * the Justice Department's repeated failures to help the McMinn Countians.</p><p></p><p>Jennings was delighted that "...at long last decency and honesty, liberty and law have returned to the fine county of McMinn...". (Congressional Record, House; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1946; Appendix, Volume 92, Part 13, p. A4870.)</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm" target="_blank">http://constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 1750901, member: 1294"] Guess there's something to it. The Battle of Athens made national headlines. Most outsiders' reports had the errors usual in coverage of large-scale, night-time events. A New York Times editorialist on 3 August savaged the GIs, who: "...quite obviously - though we hope erroneously - felt that there was no city, county, or State agency to whom they could turn for justice. ... "There is a warning for all of us in the occurrence...and above all a warning for the veterans of McMinn County, who also violated a fundamental principle of democracy when they arrogated to themselves the right of law enforcement for which they had no election mandate. Corruption, when and where it exists, demands reform, and even in the most corrupt and boss-ridden communities there are peaceful means by which reform can be achieved. But there is no substitute, in a democracy, for orderly process." (NYT, 3 Aug 1946, p. 14.) The editorialist did not see: * McMinn Countians' many appeals for outside help; * some ruthless people only respect force; * that it was wrong to equate use of force by evil-doers (Cantrell and Mansfield) with the righteous (the GIs). The New York Times: * never saw that Cantrell and Mansfield's wholesale election fraud, enforced at gun-point, trampled the Rule of Law; * feared citizens' restoring the Rule of Law by armed force. Other outsiders, e.g., Time and Newsweek, agreed. (See Time, 12 August 1946, p. 20; Newsweek, 12 Aug 1946, p. 31 and 9 September 1946, p. 38). The 79th Congress adjourned on 2 August 1946, when the Battle of Athens ended. However, Representative John Jennings, Jr., from Tennessee decried: * McMinn County's sorry situation under Cantrell and Mansfield; * the Justice Department's repeated failures to help the McMinn Countians. Jennings was delighted that "...at long last decency and honesty, liberty and law have returned to the fine county of McMinn...". (Congressional Record, House; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1946; Appendix, Volume 92, Part 13, p. A4870.) [url]http://constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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