independance day
Published July 4, 2007 | 
On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before the tea was due to be landed, on a signal given by Samuel Adams, the Sons of Liberty thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, left the massive protest meeting and headed toward Griffin’s Wharf, where lay HMS Dartmouth and her newly arrived, tea bearing, sister ships HMS Beaver and HMS Eleanour. Swiftly and efficiently, casks of tea were brought up from the hold to the deck, reasonable proof that some of the “Indians” were, in fact, longshoremen. The casks were opened and the tea dumped overboard; the work, lasting well into the night, was quick, thorough, and efficient. By dawn, 90,000 lbs (45 tons) of tea worth an estimated £10,000 had been consigned to waters of Boston harbor.[1] Nothing else had been damaged or stolen, except a single padlock accidentally broken and anonymously replaced not long thereafter. Tea washed up on the shores around Boston for weeks. – Wikipedia
These days we of course are a bit less worried about the import of tea. In fact had the colonies received representation in parliament early on, there was an off-hand chance we’d all be speaking English right now! LOL! On the other hand like the Austrailians, we have a a nasty independant streak on our side of the pond. The NRA often reminds us that we need guns in our homes in part to “Keep the King of England from pushing us around!” We certainly can’t be having any of that!
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Its time again to read and understand what Ben Franklin stated here! This bunch of liars and corrupt idiots who are running this administration have to go!
But you know what. As Steve Earl said in a song.
“All we can do is write letters to the editor and cheat on our taxes”
We are a sorry lot!
I am a Viet Nam vet who fought. It gives me the right to bitch!
Read these amazing words my fellow Americans!!
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2.2 That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. “
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Amen!!!!
From another ‘Nam vet: Say what you will about this administration: it will be replaced by another set of sociopathic crooks. That’s who become politicians with the promise to serve us…right.
Silbs you are right to a degree! But I say this administration more than any other has slowly taken rights and freedoms from the American people. All under the guise of safety from the Muslim hordes! Heres another comment from old Ben Franklin.
“Anybody who gives up liberty for security deserves neither”
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!