03-10-2023, 04:22 AM
(03-09-2023, 06:43 PM)Dill Wrote: It was worse that you say here, when you add in the Christian Front.
At one point they actually raided a NY Armory to get BAR's and other military weapons--with the help of the guard commander.
Their plan was to take down Congress and the WH in a violent coup and install a fascist, anti-socialist dictatorship,
but the FBI arrested them in Jan 1940, I think,
https://web.archive.org/web/20221102145719/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983717
https://web.archive.org/web/20221021031441/https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/old-resentment
They were indicted, but aquitted and their stolen guns returned, when the sympatheitc jury judged them not guilty.
In the U.S., taking down violent right wing organizations has been difficult. Required a civil war once, and they still won
the peace.
(lol Bigdaddy beat me to it--jusst saw after I posted this.)
(03-09-2023, 07:02 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: The judge allowed all the defendants to be tried together and they made a circus of the trial, so the jury was so confused and worn down. They were deadlocked and most charges were dismissed against the insurrectionists.
After reading the first post I came to say I think we may soon see the toppling of the two party system, because the GOP may fragment with the trumpets going one way and desanitized going another. But now I see this history and I guess nevermind.
