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Title: Battle of Blair Mountain
Post by: RevDisk on September 22, 2010, 08:53:30 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

Really fascinating read of the largest civil insurrection besides the Civil War.  Standard stuff, government backed drones ignoring habeas corpus and declaring 'martial law'.  Assassinations, bogus warrants.  I think it's the first time that US Army bombers were used against US citizens. 

Title: Re: Battle of Blair Mountain
Post by: TechMan on September 22, 2010, 09:07:46 PM

Read about that somewhere recently.  This is where the term "red neck" comes from.  They gathered at Lens Creek near Marmet, which are the two places that SWMBO grew up in.