THE BATTLE OF ATHENS, TENNESSEE

http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen_press.htm ^ | Don Hamrick

[yarddog]

Yep, John Patterson ran as a conservative and beat the liberal George Wallace. Hardly anyone remembers that Wallace started out as a liberal. He was a good politician. He simply became what the people wanted.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Patterson apparently became quite liberal with age, he unapologetically supported Zero.

http://thicketmag.com/content/?p=386

[yarddog]

That is really strange and a lot disappointing. The only thing I can think of is he really disliked Bush.

[Bigg Red]

Why don’t you contact Beck and have him do the story. He may not be aware of the Battle of Athens. I wasn’t until I saw this post.

[30Moves]

Every Monday night @ 6:00pm at the Athens Diner. We have had a lot of the local candidates come to speak - come a meet the group.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I mean, he was a Kennedy supporter in ‘60 and got along quite well with JFK & RFK during their administration (a lot better than Wallace got on with them and LBJ), so I don’t know how “Conservative” he was to begin with, and in the article he clearly bragged about coming from an area that turned out liberals.

I wondered for awhile if he might switch parties over the intervening years after his departure from the Governorship and later loss for the office, but he never did (of course, Wallace never switched, but I believe by the ‘90s he was endorsing Republicans for President, and of course, his namesake son switched to the GOP). I don’t know if Patterson ever endorsed any Republicans.

Patterson by his own admission in the article subscribed to the liberal mindset in policy as well, and was also on that panel that held up removing Chief Justice Moore, which I thought was appalling and unjustified, which was liberal revenge against a man justly practicing the section of religious freedom trampled upon by the courts.

He seemed more like a Howell Heflin-type liberal Democrat. Presumably Heflin would’ve supported Zero, too, had he lived to the ‘08 elections. He was pretty hostile to Republicans.

[gunnyg]

“Why don’t you contact Beck and have him do the story. He may not be aware of the Battle of Athens. I wasn’t until I saw this post.”
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I have been watching (as in keeping my eye on him) beck for several years now—I wouldn;t waste my time on him. Perhaps someone else will do so, and if it looks profitible to him; and if he can obtain the permission of his masters....

I first came upon the Athens incident sometime at the far end of my 10-12 years online, and I have been posting that to the net on and off since.

Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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[yarddog]

Boy it is beginning to sound like Patterson really was a liberal. I dealt with him several times, always by phone while he was representing Finter Bank in Zurich Switzerland. He was always cordial and had a deep Southern accent.

Never discussed politics with him tho.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, it’s always a mistake to presume just because they have a Southern accent that they’re not a liberal. After all, all 3 Southern-born Presidents of the modern era were all very left-wing Democrats (Dubya doesn’t count, he was born in Connecticut).

[US_MilitaryRules]

WOW! Excellent speech by Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuW9RhErRdQ

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcbl96BH0Ck&feature=related

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s6vWTtQtSw&feature=related

I never realized how destructive and evil the Patriot Act was. WOW!

[A. Patriot]

Here is an oral history interview with one of the main participants, Bill White. In this paper, he talks about his experiences in WWII (which are incredible in themselves), then the talks about the Battle of Athens.

This is really worth reading

http://web.utk.edu/~csws/interviews/white.pdf

Here are 2 versions of the battle:

http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/athens-seiber.htm

http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/athens.htm