By: GSR

GSR — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:33:25 +0000

The nutty professor needs to be bitch slapped by Jayna Davis - for starters. This note to the professor of hysteria, wanna switch out rebellions? Try The Whiskey Rebellion. Better fit, precedence with a capital P. Talk about a stretch. That connectivity(to McVeigh)should be grounds for institutionalization(is that a word? heh). You sure Tim didn’t have a Jack Daniels T-shirt on? ;~)

By: Alan Teas

Alan Teas — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:08:29 +0000

All of my life I have heard the colonist’s complaint was that they were
taxed without having a representative in Parliament. This never made sense
to me because the taxes were very slight. Only once have I heard the REAL
reason. The British had grabbed land in Ireland and Scotland and forced
the people to become serfs on their own lands. The colonists feared they
were next. Land owners such as Washington and Jefferson understood that
America’s fertile farms and rich resources (which was what Britain was
interested in America for in the first place) were too great a temptation
for Britain to resist. The increase of the British military forces during
the French and Indian War only added to the anxiety. A representative in
Parliament would have been tacit admission that the Colonies were political
entities with rights. Denying representation on the other hand confirmed
their suspicion that the Crown viewed the colonies as mere appendages which
it could (and probably would) exploit in the future.
So it was not about representation but about the relationship of the
people to the government. Did they have inherent rights or were they
chattel? This is the parallel with our current situation. In both cases
the American people were/are faced with a huge power grab by the government.
In the first case they had no representative and in the second case their
representatives did NOT represent them, hence leaving them with, in
effect, no representatives.
Thus the flag IS correct in our case. From a Libertarian perspective I
have always felt Washington’s reaction to Shay’s Rebellion was wrong. But
that is a diversion. The question was and remains, are we free born or
are our rights granted to us by the state?
A final question: why are we never taught the truth about our own
Revolution? Why are we taught that all the colonists wanted was a
“congressman” in Parliament and they would have been happy with whatever
the government did to them?

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By: GSR

By: Alan Teas