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    10 days ago

    Historically, there are other options…

    Here’s how returning vets from WW2 handled political corruption and a sheriff stealing multiple elections but everyone in authority refused to do anything about it.

    Bill White claimed he said “Boys, … I’m going to tell them to bring the ballot box out of there, and if they don’t we’re gonna open up on them.’ I hollered in there, I said, ‘You damn thieve grabbers, bring them damn ballot boxes out of there.’ That’s just what I said. He didn’t make a move down there and finally one of them said, ‘By God I heard a bolt click.’ Down there—one of them grabbers did, you know—they started scattering around. And I had a pistol in my belt with a shotgun. I had a shotgun and a rifle. And I pulled the pistol out and started firing down there at them. Well, when I did that, all that whole line up there started firing down there in there. A lot of them got in the jail, some of them didn’t, some of them got shot laying outside. And the battle started.”[4]: 21

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

    The whole story is worth a read, especially these days.

    But it ended up with a bunch of dynamite, dead fascists, and a new sherrif…

    Who made Bill White a deputy and he faced no charges.