violent antitax protest/riot in US

[Declan McCullagh]

Right, I hadn't linked that in. That was a sad day in U.S. history,
though by modern standards the troops were positively restrained and cordial.

-Declan


On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:50:29AM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Declan hypothesized:
> 
> >This is amazing. If anything like this was even attempted in DC,
> >we'd have dozens of federal agencies, and perhaps armed troops,
> >converging on the U.S. Capitol.
> >
> >-Declan
> 
> Something was attempted like that in DC --   The Bonus Marchers in 1932.
> And although there weren't as many federal agencies back then, the armed
> troops did show, including Patton, Eisenhower, MacArthur, cavalry, and some
> tanks.