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To: KC_Lion

You don’t need to go back to the Late Unpleasantness for an example.

Use the Bonus Army.


28 posted on 08/28/2012 6:09:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

IMHO you gotta be careful using the Bonus March as an example of violation of Posse Commitatus.

The Federal District of Washington D.C. is just what it says, under federal control exclusively, and that’s where the Bonus Army camped out & set up their shantytown.

Douglas MacArthur surely overreacted using Renault tanks (p***ant little vehicles to any real tanker) to bulldoze the shanties of the poor desperate Bonus marchers. But notice how little this action affected the memory of the general who later said, “I shall return”.

What’s never ever mentioned in the accounts of the Bonus March is that they got exactly what they wanted: the WW1 vets’ bonus was paid ten years ahead of what the original legislation provided, in 1935 instead of 1945. FWIW my grandfather received his $600 bonus & used it to buy the house he had been renting, owned it free & clear by 1940.

Also, commemorating the Bonus Army is the stuff of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Peter Paul & Mary, and other lefty folkies. No offense, just having fun here because I’m old enough to remember all their shenanigans.

;^)


116 posted on 08/28/2012 9:27:04 PM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
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To: DuncanWaring
Use the Bonus Army.

Yeah but they were not just civilians, they were after all, war veterans.</sarcasm>

135 posted on 08/28/2012 11:52:04 PM PDT by itsahoot (Write in Palin in 2012, Just to pi$$ off the Romney botts.)
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To: DuncanWaring

“You don’t need to go back to the Late Unpleasantness for an example.
Use the Bonus Army.”

This comes up once in a while, and FReepers are woefully uninformed about this matter.

American troops did not attack the Bonus Army. The Bonus Army had been infiltrated by the commies. The commies broke off from the main group and occupied buildings under construction in DC. When the cops tried to evict them, they were met by bottles, rocks, clubs and gunfire. At least one cop died.

The army was called in to remove the commies.

During the great immigration push from 1890 till 1920, millions of eastern Europeans immigrated to the US, including thousands of rabble-rousers from the nascent Marxist movement in Europe. You can read about the trouble they caused, including shootings, bombings, riots and murders, on old microfiche reels at any large library.


204 posted on 08/31/2012 5:47:35 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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