Americans have never enjoyed anyone’s boot on their neck however lightly that boot might bear.
The Americans were not an oppressed people, they had no crushing imperial shackles to throw off. In fact, the Americans knew they were probably freer and less burdened with cumbersome feudal and hierarchical restraints than any part of mankind in the eighteenth century. To its victims, the Tories, the Revolution was truly incomprehensible. Never in history, said Daniel Leonard, had there been so much rebellion with so “little real cause.” It was, wrote Peter Oliver, “the most wanton and unnatural rebellion that ever existed.” The Americans’ response was out of all proportion to the stimuli: “The Annals of no Country can produce an instance of so virulent a Rebellion, of such implacable madness and Fury, originating from such trivial Causes, as those alledged by these unhappy People.” The objective social reality scarcely seemed capable of explaining a revolution.
Sipsey Street Irregulars: Paranoid? Yep, we’re as "paranoid" as the Founders.
This also speaks to those who say Americans have not suffered to the same degree as our Founding Fathers, when those same people are asked if we would be justified to revolt. Obviously a person with his foot upon an American’s neck might be surprised by how angry they can get over some small, and to them, trivial slight. Perhaps they would be well advised to tread lightly if they must tread at all and to be mindful that at any point some might take offense.
It is said of the Tea Partiers that they have no cause to demonstrate against the Crown err oops the Government, that the Government has not oppressed us to the same degree suffered by our Founding Fathers, yet. Sometimes those on the side of Freedom will counter by listing the numerous crimes against our Freedoms committed by the statists and their ilk inside the government. But perhaps they should also point out that they know where the story ends…so did the Founding Fathers. Freedom lovers know where the philosophy of those who inhabit our government ends. It ends where governments have always and forever ended…with the enslavement of the people.
As early as 1775 Edmund Burke had noted in the House of Commons that the colonists’ intensive study of law and politics had made them acutely inquisitive and sensitive about their liberties. Where the people of other countries had invoked principles only after they had endured “an actual grievance,” the Americans, said Burke, were anticipating their grievances and resorting to principles even before they actually suffered. “They augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.” The crucial questions in the colonists’ minds, wrote John Dickinson in 1768, was “not, what evil HAS ACTUALLY ATTENDED particular measures — but, what evil, in the nature of things, IS LIKELY TO ATTEND THEM.” Because “nations, in general, are not apt to THINK until they FEEL, . . . Therefore nations in general have lost their liberty.” But not the Americans, as the Abbe Raynal observed. They were an “enlightened people” who knew their rights and the limits of power and who, unlike any people before them, aimed to think before they felt. — Gordon S. Woods, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 – 1787, Chapter One, “The Whig Science of Politics,” pp. 3-5.
Perhaps it is time to review where we think this ends and to consider whether we like the ending or not. Now would be a good time to get up away from the TV and to start paying attention to your government!
Glenn Reynolds on revolution…
TALKING REVOLUTION: read this first, please. (Bumped).
Mr. PEARLSTEIN: I don’t think so. I don’t think they’re that Machiavellian and manipulative. What may be driving it is the annual budget reviews at most companies. And so in the fall, they’ll decide to do stuff that they might have decided not to do last fall when the economy really looked a lot weaker than it does. So some of these is the natural budget cycle. 
heading off for Advanced Individual Training at Ft. Gordon in a few weeks. His little sister, Abbey, almost nine, couldn’t let go of him, even to have a photo taken with Mike and their brother, Wes. She swung on his arm adoringly – her look of love says it all.
One source reported that U.N. ‘peacekeeping’ troops were part of the movement
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