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Freedom Party Stalwarts

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The Freedom Party Stalwarts were a paramilitary wing of the Freedom Party of the Confederate States. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands by November 1933, the Stalwarts consisted of men who were angry with the status quo, angry at the loss of the Great War to the United States, angry at the blacks for rising in revolt during the Great War, or just angry in general. The Stalwarts joined the Freedom Party as a reaction against the forces keeping the CSA down, and Jake Featherston was the one politician who promised change for the better.

Donning the Party uniform of a white t-shirt and butternut trousers, Stalwarts were the lowest rung of the Freedom Party hierarchy who paid dues and went to meetings every Wednesday night. The Stalwarts also participated in mass rallies, prompting crowds to scream "Freedom!" at the top of their lungs. Ensuring that the Confederate people did not have any doubt about Featherston's goals, the Stalwarts were formed into Assault Squads and attacked the rallies and meeting halls of the Whigs and Radical Liberals, beating up their political opponents with bludgeons and truncheons.

After Featherston was elected President of the Confederate States in 1933, the Stalwarts made sure that the Confederate people complied with the Freedom regime; they staffed concentration camps, murdered opponents and provoked race riots on the black minority. Nevertheless, several Stalwarts were conservative Freedom men who looked forward to electing a new Freedom President every six years; when Jake Featherston successfully convinced the country to amend the Constitution to allow him to run again in 1939, Vice President Willy Knight enlisted members of the Stalwarts in a plot to assassinate Featherston. The plot backfired; Featherston survived the attack and Knight's role was uncovered in short order. Knight was forced to resign, and was taken into custody. The Stalwarts lost their prominence to the Freedom Party Guards and lost some of their privileges, being relegated to mere auxiliary policemen guarding Negro ghettoes.

Literary note[]

  • The Freedom Party Stalwarts parallel the Sturmabteilung (SA), the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.
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