It had been 8 years since a young rabble-rouser “extremist” by the name of Patrick Henry delivered his first fiery resolutions in the House of Burgesses, to which Speaker Robinson responded with shouts of “Treason!” And as legend has it, Henry responded “If this be treason, make the most of it.” A young attorney named Thomas Jefferson was just one body in the House that day who began to feel his blood stir. It would be another 4 years before Lord Botetourt addressed the assembly of “upstart Virginians” including a young planter named George Washington, “Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses. I have heard of your resolves and augur ill of their effect. You have made it my duty to dissolve you and you are dissolved accordingly.”

These “upstart Virginians” were mostly successful men of means who possessed great property and title. In other words, they were quite comfortable. They say it was the winter of ’68-’69 that converted Washington from a “disaffected planter into a rabid militant against British policies.” But up until and for a small while beyond the evening of December 16, 1773, when a small band of patriots dressed as Indians heaved 342 chests of tea into Massachusetts Bay, Washington and many Early Americans were living in a world of “flagrant contradictions”. They conspired against and traded with their British masters all at once! Have we not found ourselves here again…in circumstances far worse?

What is the difference between a Crown in London and a Crown in Washington, DC? Which tyrant had and has the greater advantage? Was the Stamp Tax any more insidious or evil than an MTA Tax on the Orange County, NY resident who doesn’t use MTA? But how comfortable are we, and worse yet…How misinformed are we here in the golden age of information? Are we any more or less confused in our loyalties then, than we are now? Isn’t much the same in the sense that most of us are quite content in the security of food on the table, a source of income and a little recreation? It makes you wonder how uneasy many would have become around the talk and the very idea of rebellion.

Besides proximity, what other advantages do our modern-day tyrants posses? Well let’s see, besides drones, other superior weaponry including A CENTRAL BANK, they have the Unions and the Media. In other words, we would still be a colony of the British Empire if King George were half as blessed as his modern rivals!  And God only knows the uphill an already uphill would have been, had King George been blessed with the likes of Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert in his Court! BUT WAIT! I’ve just stumbled on the one small detail that will save the Republic!

If Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert had responded to the Boston Tea Party with their Rally to Restore Sanity in Boston in 1773, Americans would have thrown them into Massachusetts Bay after the Tea!! On the whole, we are still red-blooded Americans with a genetic love of freedom and the pursuit of happiness! We simply need to make sure that the larger some of us never forget it while the smaller balance of those who have, come to their senses! After all, we are still a Republic and WE do mean to keep it!