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Goodbye... Live long and prosper...
Regards,
Bob...
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:22
AM
Subject: Re: Illegal street
photography
i would like to be removed from this forum...where do i
email?
On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Bob Blakely wrote:
It wasn't the tax per se,
it was the king's denial of representation in Parliament that
infuriated some folks here at the time. That the King would tax us without
that representation was the last straw, hence the cry heard often in "the
colonies" prior to the war, "No taxation without representation!" The tax on
tea required of the colonists was considered most onerous and was the target
of a "rabble rouser" named Samual Adams. It was he and his band of "The Sons
of Liberty" that dressed as indians, boarded British merchant ships in
Boston harbor, and threw all the tea overboard. This became known over here
as "The Boston Tea Party." Samual Adams was quite the orator and known for
his firey speaches containing such phrases
as:
"If
ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than
the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776
Sam
Adams was a brewer and methinks he may probably have just preferred
that folks drink his beer instead. Today there is a small(er) brewery here
in the US that claims to brew it's beer after Sam Adams fashion, and is
named for him. Somewhere I have photos of the brewery. Sam Adams beer is not
bad at all, for American beer, that is, though it is said that *beer* has
not been brewed in the US for decades. It is much better than that Budwieser
swill, though...
Regards,
Bob...
From:
TERRYAKING@xxxxxxx
In
a message dated 21/1/05 2:22:08 am,
Bob@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Now,
it was crap similar to this that caused us to split from Merry Ol'
>>England
some 229 years ago. Later, our English friends went through a
>>transformation
and liberty bloomed. Now they're at it (prohibitions
>>against
>>nearly
everything) again.
I
am have heard it said by US friends that the reason for the split from
merry old England was that you did not want to pay your taxes to pay for
wars the UK had fought on behalf of the
colonies.
You
are right though in some respects. We are not keen on gun
cultures. But then our police do not carry guns as a matter of course.
But
these things are never that simple.
Terry
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