In 1952, A group of farmers “arrested” the town’s sheriff while he was attempting to evict a widow from her farm at the behest of a local insurance company.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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In the Great Depression, there were things called Penny Auctions. When a property was foreclosed on, the bank would hold an auction on the property. The locals would show up, guns in hand, and threatened anyone who would dare bid on it. The family that had been foreclosed on would pay very little to get their property back free and clear.
Now when you do it, you get charged with terrorism
Americans used to know how to deal with, and recognize, tyranny.
If you did that now, the state or federal would come in and arrest those people to prevent a precedent from being set. If they were allowed, liars would abuse the policy and gangs would overrun areas. You need good, honest, fair men to run a society. Anything else is destined to fail.
Nothing has changed. The law still acts on behalf of corporations against the good of the people.
Y’all used to be a country, or something. I dunno, my people have always been happy to cause misery to their neighbors
how is an insurance company involved with the eviction?
The second amendment is there for a reason.
Good intentions on the part of the farmers.
My money sez all they did was buy her a little time, though.
Fine. Let’s talk about the same subject for blacks in 1952.
“Nah bruh, aye! Call the boys!”
We’re gonna have to bring this action back.
akin to jury nullification, no?
We used to be a society
Bring this back!!
When did republicans turn into the boot lickers?
This is that OG Christian conservative attitude that I can get behind!
Then they “convinced him” to change his mind. With their fists.
Fort Ziegenhardt! I believe this particular event happened north of Lapeer, Michigan. The $40,000 farmland was sold to cover a $280 debt.
“Now Robert…we done known each other since we was kids…We cant let you take the ladies farm.”
good for them
*”It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE. In that state every man would have been born to property… But the landed monopoly that began with [cultivation] has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance… and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”* —Thomas Paine (Agrarian Justice)
*”The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on… it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land.”* —Thomas Jefferson (a letter to James Madison, 1785)
*”… you are lost, if you forget that the Fruits of the Earth belong equally to us all, and the Earth itself to nobody!”* —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on Inequality, Part 2)
*”… mankind have as equal and just a property in land as they have in liberty, air, or the light and heat of the sun…”* —Thomas Spence (a lecture, Newcastle, 1775)
*”The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right…”* —Henry George (Progress and Poverty, Book 7, Chapter 1)
Reminder that “the man” is the man from the bank foreclosing/evicting a sharecropper from the land they’re working after a default on the loans for their farm implements.
Good Trouble.
It happening in 1952: “These honorable gentleman are standing up for what’s right! Good on them!”
It happening in 2024: “These are radical communist-loving terrorists and every single one belongs in prison.”
How much horror in history? : ” I’m doing my job. Following orders. My boss said to do this.” The shareholders said ….., The military said…The church said……
Good job OP, now you’re on a terror list.
Hell yeah
is this the anti-rent war of Andes NY? because if so, that’s not all they did to the sheriff 👀
Fuck yeah
Heroes
the ones from a small town you all like to make fun of?
They’d be called terrorists today
Good lord, people used to have basic decency back then
Humor: “[Hashtag] Domestic Terrorism”
(1700’s France about to rear its ugly ass back)
Double Humor: “William J Burns Better watch his back yo”
Serious: “Yeah I’m bored, but don’t worry you wont find me in DC again.”
(Yeah you)
And today they’re too busy cheering on the town’s sheriff because the widow is black and the local insurance news paper said she’s otherwise going to eat our children.
The way Radar talked about Ottumwa, Iowa in MASH, you get the sense that even in the 50s, the big flat farming parts of America were still living in the wild wild west
Fast Forward to 2024. They vote for the bank.
Americans actually used to engage in acts of class solidarity like this all the time. Tragically, it was often racist as fuck and it’s not a coincidence that you don’t see these people showing solidarity with non-whites, but we did at least used to know the value of sticking together with those of our class.
Always back the farmers. Truckers. And all the real folks who do the real work. Unfortunately due to the insane surveillance state and tyranny, healthy checks and balances no longer exist as shown. Corrupt systems serving corrupt actors, abusing all.
This is a spirit that was chemotherapied out of the United States