The Battle of Athens, Tennessee – 1946 – last armed revolt against the government. Very interesting stuff. This is a big, big, big part of why gun control is anti-freedom. Yet somehow, I still don’t see this as being possible today. LIVEJOURNAL CENSORSHIP: comparison of membership of livejournal interests between 2007 and 2008 is is no longer censored Problem? For 2008, many stats are now hidden by LJ. For example, if you put “sex” as one of your interests… You will not be counted. But wait! Enough people got pissed off that they rolled back the change (thanks for the update, Ian)!
March 18, 2008
LESSONS IN FREEDOM: The last armed revolution in America was in 1946, against local government.
Posted by Claire CJS under Articles, Censorship, Corporations, Geek Politics, Gun Control, News, Politics1 Comment
March 18, 2008 at 6:42 PM
That whole LJ popular interests censoring caused such an uproar that they’ve already fixed it since that post that you linked to:
http://community.livejournal.com/the_lj_herald/80784.html