American Values

His­to­ry is it real or is it fake, the truth about our past may be dif­fer­ent than you have been told. 

The Bat­tle of Athens.

In 1946 there was a seri­ous cor­rup­tion prob­lem which was threat­en­ing to cre­ate a dic­ta­tor state in a time when men bled and died on the bat­tle­field for oth­ers, one group of vet­er­ans refused to allow a few cow­ards with guns to run the state gov­ern­ment of Ten­nessee.

source wikipedia Cit­i­zens of McMinn Coun­ty had long been con­cerned about polit­i­cal cor­rup­tion and pos­si­ble elec­tion fraud.[5] The U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice had inves­ti­gat­ed alle­ga­tions of elec­toral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but had not tak­en action.

Source, Read more here. 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. Few “gun con­trol” laws had been enact­ed.