Says trikeman01:
I never heard about this. It is true. It is very saddening that such circumstances existed and forced the hand of good men.
Our Founding Fathers had the wisdom to put the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution simply because they realized that, some day, American Citizens would need to protect themselves from a corrupt, tyrannical government.
The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law
Uploaded by JeremyHopper007 on Dec 27, 2011
The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.
Specific materials in this video are copyrighted and fall into 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, The Fair Use of a Copyrighted Work.
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Tags: Election Fraud, Tennessee, Veterans, vote fraud
I’ll bet selrahC would shit goldbricks with this info! Or would that be Cheetos bricks?
It is my most ardent of prayers that the Battle of Athens need not ever be repeated anywhere in the United States of America. It is my worst fear that it will have to be repeated many many times for the Citizens of the United States of America to once again reclaim their Republic.
@ doriangrey:
Please, O God, let this be so from Dorian’s lips to Your ears.
@ Macker:
Check your e-mail…
if you don’t believe in ABBA
off to the Tennessee Gulag with yahs
jus syin
Tin-foil hat time: you be the judge…
OK, so I was talking to coldwarrior on the phone Thursday night. I was raining in PA, but beautifully perfect here in SoCal. Today it is raining here in SoCal… Coincidence? I think not…
@ mawskrat:
Gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhn my ears, my poor bleeding earholes…….. My restore the balance to the Force….
@ doriangrey:
well heckie yeh!!!
time to work the good earth
This IS NOT Metallica…. It is Motorhead covering “Enter Sandman”
@ mawskrat:
If they tried this today, they would be labeled “radical right-wing domestic terrorists” and massacred by Homeland Security and ATF.
Vinegar Joe wrote:
Well, somebody would be massacred, but I wouldn’t bet on it being the actual combat veterans. Their is a damned good reason that Homeland Insecurity is afraid of our returning veterans and it isn’t because they are terrorist.
Chucky sees the flag of the Afrikaner WeerstandsBeweging on this post!
Ons vir jou, Tennessee!
Lots of M1 carbines. Couple of Springfields. Way better than the Sheriff for suppression. Back then most Sheriff departments had 30-30. Highly effective, but only five rounds. I note that the M1 carbines had the standard issue 15 round magazine but it can be replaced very quickly.
pat wrote:
Here is a mild thought experiment for you. How many Iraqi and Afghanistan returning veterans, upon returning home and surrendering their government issued weapons, voluntarily choose to remain unarmed? How many simply traded their government issued M-16′s for civilian AR-15? Who thinks that a combat veteran armed with a civilian AR-15 is any less lethal than if he were armed with a M-16?
This is the real rational behind the scary weapons ban.
Damn good film. But the sound effects don’t match the weaponry. LOL. And the sheriff’s department had a few autoloading shotguns. Looks like a Rem. 1100. Back then, if a sheriff had a shotgun, it would be a Win. Mod. 12 pump. Something that stayed in the arsenal into the 60s. very reliable. A farmer with a 10 gauge goose gun, loaded with buck, and properly covered by those carbines would scare the shit out of anyone trying to get a shot off out of a window. Hell. He could have BB shot at that range and still do damage.
@ doriangrey:
This administration above all others is hoping and praying that the America people, and especially the returning veterans have not learned the true lessons of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. What would that true lesson be you ask?
That an armed civilian populace is nearly impossible to defeat on it’s home territory. That as long as the populace chooses to resist, the government can and will eventually be defeated.
The carbine, issued to Army Lts. and field promoted Captains, came home with the officers for keeps. Usually with half a dozen magazines.
pat wrote:
Plus, back in the 40′s the purchase of surplus military weaponry was not as tightly regulated as it is today. The Battle of Athens is probably a good example of why such strict regulations exist today. Fear by corrupt government officials and Marxist infiltrators to the US government that the Battle of Athens might be repeated again in many places.
@ doriangrey:
Actually, until Kennedy was assassinated, it was not regulated at all. And my father came back with a 1000 rounds each of 30-06, M1 carbine, and .45 ammo. heh,heh
pat wrote:
The Marxist’s didn’t spend 70 years plotting the subversion and overthrow of the US government just to have a bunch of armed veterans and yahoo cowboys pry the government out of their cold dead fingers by force.
Obama = stuttering cluster of miserable failures.
i thought they would rename Mena airport after them
@ doriangrey:
now why do you need military weapons to go hunting?
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I commend you for your kind language!
coldwarrior wrote:
Because I do not believe in taking the chance that the Seven Point Buck I’m shooting at is either wearing Kevlar or plan’s on shooting back, I do after all live in Kalifornia, where damned near anything insane is possible…
@ doriangrey:
yeah, i actually had some clown dare to ask me that stupid question. i wanted to choke him.
pat wrote:
Got any 20mm. I know someone that needs some.
Poteen wrote:
What??? You know somebody with one of these???
coldwarrior wrote:
Yea, I gave up trying to explain to those imbeciles that a 30.30 or a 30.06, typical hunting rifle, is more powerful than a 5.56 or 7.62. Or that you can easily get 10 and 15 round magazines for them.
Assuming that’s the Anzio Ironworks 20 mm, I know somebody that has one. 20 mm is available.
http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm
Mike C. wrote:
Damn it Gus, that is one BIG ASS GUN…
@ doriangrey:
Nope.
one of these
Poteen wrote:
Whoa….
Poteen wrote:
not sure what to say about that!
care and feeding of that animal must be rather expensive tho.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey, how did your golfing expedition turn out?
@ coldwarrior:
WWII souvenir. A friend found it tucked away in his dad’s house after he died. Along with his folding stock M1 carbine paratrooper rifle.
It’s funny. ‘Sons of guns’ did a show on the same gun this week. Guy about shit when he found out how much it was worth. The one he’s got now looks all but new/unused.
doriangrey wrote:
it was a muddy track as it rained all night, i walked 27. a few birdies and pars, a few balls jacked into the woods.
all in all very nice. i love old courses like that. it was founded in 1898 by the steel mill owners and execs. so, there are no bulldozer sculpted holes. its just laid out over the topography. there are actually about a dozen elm trees there that haven’t been killed by the blight, so that was nice to see.
Poteen wrote:
‘tucked away’ and ’20mm naval gun’ arent often used in the same sentence
OT but I cant seem to get anything right today, so I will post this here…I am sure we have all heard of this man…
Coptic Pope Shenouda III dead at 88
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/coptic-pope-shenouda-iii-dead-at-88.html
NoThreat2U wrote:
that is the last thing the copts need right now.
@ coldwarrior:
Agreed.
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve got a gift card for Grandview over in Braddock.
You ever play there?
The whole course is at like a 45 degree angle on the hill.
It’s pretty scenic, but I need to tune up. You can’t hit your ball down the hill or you’re three holes over.
coldwarrior wrote:
The old man started his military career in the army in 1942 with the 503rd PRCT.
Retired out of Naval Special Warfare in about 1982.
There were a lot of things about him that weren’t common.
OH YAY!!
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@ Bumr50:
target golf in that joint!
@ Bumr50:
So what works already is a bet?
He needs 8 to restore America. WTF
@ coldwarrior:
I just got new (used) Callaway irons that I need to re-grip.
Dad belongs up at Pheasant Ridge, so I’ll be up there the next few Sundays.
@ waldensianspirit:
Fossil fuels are SO last century…
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re: wiki
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local Democrat party government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of political corruption and voter intimidation. The event is sometimes cited by firearms ownership advocates as an example of the value of the Second Amendment in combating tyranny.
just a detail no mentioned in the film…
Well, if you want to own a naval gun, but didn’t happen to inherit a nice large caliber one, try this baby…
http://www.guns.com/party-like-its-1877-colts-remaking-bulldog-gatling-guns.html
That’s not a Class III weapon, BTW, so no mucking about with the feds.
brookly red wrote:
I guess those damned Tennessee redneck hillbilly white trailer trash dumb yokels just didn’t understand that the democrats were making their lives so much more better by making all the difficult decisions for what was really best for them.
@ Mike C.:
5 round magazines for CA I’ll bet./
doriangrey wrote:
I guess… bitter clingers all.
Mike C. wrote:
Heh heh heh, take the hand crank off, put on a sewing machine motor… good to go…
Poteen wrote:
In California, more like 1 round mag…
The Emperor Has No Clothes, Pt. 6,793
Uber douchebag! The world knows Obama is a fraud! He sounds so bad and like he wishes he wouldn’t have to spend time on other leaders visiting from around the world
Is that a neo Nazi flag on the cover of this thread on the homepage?
Charles Cheetos Johnson
waldensianspirit wrote:
true dat, unfortunately 40million liberals & 20-30 million dead people don’t and therein lies the problem.
Speranza wrote:
VLAAAAAMS BELAAAAANG!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
Ummm, you sure in Charles Cheetos Johnson’s case it isn’t pronounced VLAAAAAMS BAAAAANNNNGGGG…..
Poteen wrote:
Fortunately, I live in America, not CA.
Now if I could only find a spare 50 grand lying about somewhere…
Mike C. wrote:
Yea, then you could give it to me so I could get that puppy…
Cause ya just know I’m gonna need it long before you do… 
Mike C. wrote:
e-mail the DNC and tell them you need funds to register undocumented, formerly incarnate, minority, gay, union members for Obama to vote…
and ask for 80 grand, ammo is expensssive.
Mike C. wrote:
I think I’m gonna move there. Sounds like a nice place./
brookly red wrote:
Hey now… I’m in California… that ought to be good for half a billion or so here…
Poteen wrote:
Hey now, don’t be making fun of us, we got a “Plan”… We’re going to ruin our economy so all the riff-raff will move back home to Tennessee and Pennsylvania and Taxachuetts where they came from before they ruined our great state… (OK, so it’s not really a very good plan, but damn it… It’s a plan, what do you got?)
Mike C. wrote:
I could do a lot of good with that chunk of brass. Make the world a safer place.
coldwarrior wrote:
AFRIKANER WEERSTANDSBEWGING!
The Osprey wrote:
As if Charles Cheetos Johnson could even find Africa on a map…
The Osprey wrote:
AAAAAFRIKAAAAANER WEERSTAAAAANDSBEWGING!
doriangrey wrote:
Hell Charles Cheetos Johnson probably couldn’t even find Africa on a map OF AFRICA…
huckfunn wrote:
At the very least, you could impress the mortal hell out of everybody at the shooting range, no matter what they brought to shoot.
And BTW, you wouldn’t want to get tagged with a .45/70 round -- there’s some serious OOMPF there. One of my BiLs fires black powder .45/70 from a Ballard in competition at 100-500 yards, iron sights. More partial to the Sharps myself, but different strokes, etc…
doriangrey wrote:
Knock up a pudgy Mexican girl?/
Mike C. wrote:
Give Holder a little time. It will be.
Poteen wrote:
Na… My brother did that…
That’s his daughter in my avatar… 
@ Bumr50:
Baby Doc Baraq is a fucking idiot!!
@ doriangrey:
Isn’t assimilation wonderful!!