re: #417 BeachDem
There is a difference between faulting someone for saying you shouldn’t be holding your current job and going to a polling place armed and trying to determine if black people coming in to vote have any trouble with the law you can use to keep them from voting.
The first is indeed retaliation, but in my understanding is legal. The second is a blatant attempt at voter intimidation. The intent of the “Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia” can be summed up in this 1924 election refrain from Chicago:
“Who’ll carry the 41st and 42nd Wards? O’Banion, in his pistol pockets!”