ECSNorway Wrote:RobKelk:"At the urging of William Findley, Congress modified this law on June 5, 1794, allowing excise trials to be held in local state courts. But by that time, U.S. marshal David Lenox had already been sent to serve the writs summoning delinquent distillers to Philadelphia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
Looks like Congress were the good guys here, and that somebody in the Marshals' Office was the villain.
ECSNorway Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Revolt"US officials ordered the execution of some of the captives in the plaza the next day in a "drumhead court martial", ..."
This looks like military action to me, without civilian sanction - the local civilian officials were the first victims of the incident and there wasn't time to get instructions from Washington.
ECSNorway Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_MassacreIndian Agents are not Congress.
ECSNorway Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_WarsThe Governor of Colorado is not Congress.
ECSNorway Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacreAgain, the Governor of Colorado is not Congress. In this case, Congress instituted rules regarding child labor because of the actions of the Governor of Colorado - they're the good guys again.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012