How the greatest generation handled ELECTION FRAUD! Making & taking a stand!

The Historian's Den

In August 1946, the small town of Athens, Tennessee, was controlled by a corrupt political machine that had ruled for years through intimidation, rigged elections, and a network of deputies who abused their power.

 
When Election Day arrived, these deputies arrested poll watchers, beat citizens, and seized ballot boxes, hauling them into the county jail to count in secret. What the officials didn’t expect was that dozens of World War II veterans, men who had just fought fascism overseas had returned home determined not to let tyranny take root in their own backyard. They had already formed a reform ticket, but when the deputies began arresting voters, the veterans realized the election was being stolen in broad daylight.

Fed up and unwilling to back down, the veterans armed themselves with rifles and surrounded the jail where the ballots were held. A tense standoff followed, with gunfire exchanged through the night as the veterans demanded the ballots be released.

 
By dawn, the corrupt officials surrendered, and the ballot boxes were opened and counted publicly, revealing the veterans’ candidates had won. The event became a rare moment in American history when ordinary citizens, many fresh from the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific, took up arms not against a foreign enemy but to defend the integrity of their own democracy.

#Defiance    Ron Schwartz

Judicial Tyranny vs. the Rule of Law

 The Framers rejected the idea that the courts should be the final arbiters of the law or the Constitution. Judicial review, as we now know it, was not granted in the Constitution. The concept was discussed, and rejected on the floor of debate.

However, it was later asserted by Chief Justice John Marshall in his judicial opinion regarding Marbury v. Madison (1803). Over time, political elites and the legal class accepted that assertion, and the judiciary gradually elevated itself above the other branches.

As a result, we have drifted into the same trap the colonists faced under the British Empire: believing that a black robe confers superior wisdom and that judges exist to define the law rather than apply it.

The Rule of Law is not merely a collection of statutes or the text of the Constitution. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, it is grounded in “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” The Rule of Law is a moral and legal order that pre-exists government and stands above the will of rulers, judges, or shifting public opinion.

It is a framework rooted in objective moral reality, binding on both the governed and those who govern. It is the law not invented by man but discovered by him. It is a moral order observable in human nature and the natural order of things. It is Divine Law, which is a transcendent moral authority acknowledged by the Founding Fathers as the ultimate source of rights and duties. The Rule of Law is not whatever a legislature enacts or a judge declares. It is the alignment of human law and the pre-existing moral architecture of the universe and of the Cre Himself.ator

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Judicial Tyranny vs. the Rule of Law
Ron Schwartz