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British Troops deployed by the Townsend Acts occupied Boston from 1768, leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770.
The first of five dead was Crispus Attacks, an unarmed Native American African mulatto variously described as sailor or runaway slave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks
Some compare the Boston Massacre to Military, Blackwater-Xe and other civilian massacres in VietNam, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
Then as now, attorney and future Second President John Adams successfully defended British Soldiers from hanging for murder. Charges against Blackwater-Xe for the 17 Iraqi civilians killed were recently dropped in an American Court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/us/02blackwater.html?pagewanted=print
The Townsend Acts, named for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were expected to generate less than 40,000 pounds sterling, a modest government operating sum even then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
Because of further local colonial destruction of British Property with tarring and feathering of British Officials, the Townsend Acts were also repealed by Parliament, except for the Tea Tax.
It is significant to note the Tea Tax was as low as 0.8%.
A Revolution was fought over less than a penny of tax.
The tax was low to deter American smuggling of products from the Caribbean and Netherlands in order to avoid the British East India Company tea, much like Alcohol, Cigarettes and luxury goods are smuggled in black markets today.
Townsend’s Plan, then as now, was to gradually increase the tax, like the proverbial frog in a pot of water slowly heated to boiling.
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February 2nd, 2010 at 4:29 am
Holy Smokes Rich….
Now that was a handful.
This article should be published in the NY Times.
Certainly we are seeing a ground swell in this country stirred by an irate citizenry.
Perhaps it is not to late to take our country back.
God have Mercy.
Keep up the good work Rich, you are a true Patriot.
Thank you. Richard
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Mahalo Richard:
Henry Paulson acknowledged 93% of Americans opposed TARP and he did it anyway, bailing out himself and his firm Goldman Sachs with Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner’s help.
No wonder the majority of Americans want a full Audit of the Fed and Treasury, including the Mints and Bullion Vaults.
If we:
A) turn off government monopoly media making heroes out of bums,
B) share the truth which sets us free,
C) help family friends and neighbors vote for Patriotic Constitutional Independents who truly serve US this Fall,
then we may in fact take our country back from bonus banksters and their government corporate welfare pimps.
The alternative is watching the Jericho Wall of debt crush our country and lives like Financial Armageddon.
Uncle Sam owes more than we own. That cannot last much longer.
We must pay down or forgive our debts with a spending freeze on deficits and earmarks and the 1% Transaction Tax on a quadrillion in voluntary transactions.
Andrew Jackson paid off the public debt in 1835. So can we…
Regards*Rich
February 4th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Rich,
Like the website and all, but a reader needs to click 22 separate times simply to read the content of this entry. Perhaps a different format would be better?
Cheers.
February 24th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Thanks clicks.
Took it up with the management.
Regards*Rich