President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard...

NY Slimes ^ | 9/25/1957 | ANTHONY LEWIS

[markomalley]

President Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., today to open the way for the admission of nine Negro pupils to Central High School.

Earlier, the President federalized the Arkansas National Guard and authorized calling the Guard and regular Federal forces to remove obstructions to justice in Little Rock school integration.

His history-making action was based on a formal finding that his "cease and desist" proclamation, issued last night, had not been obeyed. Mobs of pro-segregationists still gathered in the vicinity of Central High School this morning.

Tonight, from the White House, President Eisenhower told the nation in a speech for radio and television that he had acted to prevent "mob rule" and "anarchy."

[markomalley]

Full title: President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy

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Since Sodomite "marriage" has been deemed the successor to the civil rights movement </barf>, I wonder how long it will take until we see this headline again (maybe in Austin or Baton Rouge this time, rather than Little Rock)?

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Pretty obvious why Blacks have not progressed as a whole. They don’t know who their friends are.

[all the best]

And we don’t know who our enemies are. A Republican sends troops against a local high school.

[Bluewater2015]

The people in Arkansas should have called the troops bluff. It is extremely difficult to get regular Army troops, recruited from the population at large, to fire on civilians. If the Arkansas authority simply ignored the troops, and block the students anyhow, the troops would have been in a real quandary. They'd have to use force to stop them. But they couldn't bring themselves to fire on their own people. So it would have been something of a checkmate. Here's an example. In 1962, bread riots broke out in the Rostov region of the USSR. The police were unable to stop it. So regular Soviet army troops were brought in. They sided with the rioters! Ethnic Kazakh troops from the Interior Ministry had to be brought in to suppress the riots. A text case in military psychology. Besides, what President in his right mind wants a mini civil war on the 6:30 news. And imagine how the Soviets would have played the story in the Third World. Alas what might have been.

[knarf]

That's probably the best, "same thing only different" I've heard in a long while.

frightening to know, the two factions still exist.

[Nextrush]

JFK used Little Rock all over the South in 1960 making
a pledge not to send federal troops in future situations, but he did commit federal marshals and when that failed to stop violence at Oxford, MS to enroll James Meredith at Ole Miss, 20-thousand plus US Military were committed to Northern MS.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

“The people in Arkansas should have called the troops bluff”

Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in.

[GOPJ]

After the Civil War, Democrats implemented new strategies to re-enslave or oppress African Americans. They introduced things like Jim Crow laws. President Woodrow Wilson (D) segregated the Army and Federal government. They were integrated by Republicans before him, and again by Republicans after Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed a leader of the Ku Klux Klan to the Supreme Court, and another KKK leader, Robert Byrd, was a prominent Democratic Senator for decades. Republicans had tried to pass the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts since the mid-50's, but Democrats blocked them, until President Johnson (D) gutted the Acts and passed them as part of a scheme to pacify blacks and snare their votes.

From American Thinker... I'll get the link...

[Bluewater2015]

Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in.

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I agree. But that was their decision to make.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in.

And even earlier, compulsory government schools should never have been established.

[Durus]

"It is extremely difficult to get regular Army troops, recruited from the population at large, to fire on civilians.

That is a naive and simply incorrect assumption. History of just the 20th century has shown that the biggest threat to civilians is their own military. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia...one could go on and on.

Can't happen here?

Hooverville.

Kent State.

[lonestar]

I have several friends who were students at Central High during this time.

You're clueless.

[Bluewater2015]

That is a naive and simply incorrect assumption. History of just the 20th century has shown that the biggest threat to civilians is their own military. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia...one could go on and on.

Can’t happen here?

Hooverville.

Kent State.

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Nazi Germany had uniformed Gestapo. The USSR had MVD or uniformed KGB (remember the bread riots I mentioned). Poland had ZOMO, Romania had the Securitate. None of those were regular Army. The state had to call out special security forces made up of sociopaths and thugs. Ordinary troops wouldn’t do it. Fortunately we don’t—yet—have a large standing force of uniformed, psychopathic “security forces” to put down uprisings. As for Kent State, these were jittery, poorly trained “weekend warriors.” When you give a bunch of Barney Fifes loaded M-16s, it won’t end well. As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s.

[Bluewater2015]

Really?

[Bluewater2015]

Hooverville

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And there was no 24 hour TV news cycle during the 1930s, either. That’s a game changer in how governments respond to crises.

[lonestar]

Yep. They had to watch the evening news to learn "what happened at school today."

The media was already re-writing what really happened.

[Durus]

"Fortunately we don’t—yet—have a large standing force of uniformed, psychopathic “security forces” to put down uprisings.

The BATFE would suit that purpose quite well.

"As for Kent State, these were jittery, poorly trained “weekend warriors.” When you give a bunch of Barney Fifes loaded M-16s, it won’t end well.

The Ohio national guard had been deployed to Vietnam and been used to quell prison riots. These weren't green untested troops. Further, while I'm not a trusting person, I am a patriot and I wouldn't call members of the national guard "jittery, poorly trained, or weekend warriors".

As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s.

"As for Hooverville, had that happened now, the Bonus Army would have been armed, and would have ended in a standoff. Guns were harder to get in large quantities in the 1930s."

Gun ownership rates were higher in the 1930s then they are today, guns were much more readily available for purchase, with almost no purchase restrictions. Given enough money one could have ordered crates of Thompson submachine guns and 1911's. The M1917 Enfield, the service rifle at the time, could be mail ordered.

[Bluewater2015]

"Fortunately we don’t—yet—have a large standing force of uniformed, psychopathic “security forces” to put down uprisings. The BATFE would suit that purpose quite well. -------------------------------------------------------------- There aren't enough of them. To put down a general uprising in a state the size of Arkansas you'd need at least a division, especially when recruits start pouring in from neighboring states with anything they can get their hands on. As for the Ohio ANG, I have to respectfully disagree. Investigations of the Kent State shootings verify what I have stated. Prison riots are a whole different kettle of fish. And seasoned troops would not have panicked when college kids tossed a few rocks at them. Like I said, "Barney Fifes." National Guard units are different now. They're regularly sent into combat. Back in the 1960s, the NG is where you went to stay out of harm's way. You were lucky to get in. You got called up if there was a flood or some such thing. If the Bonus Army was unarmed, that was their big mistake. And anyhow, with the 24-hour news cycle, the US government would be very reluctant use to violence against its own citizenry, and have that played over, and over and over ...

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[GreenLanternCorps]

The 14th amendment to the Constitution prohibits denying blacks full citizenship. Jim Crow laws and government mandated racial segregation, were violation of God given rights.

It was necessary and proper for the United States to intervene.

Homosexual marriage is the creation, out of thin air, of something that never existed before. Then forcing that creation on the people using the courts.

Big difference.