Shots Fired, Ship Burned: The Sons of Liberty vs the HMS Gaspee
“For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences.” From the Declaration of Independence, one of the charges against the King that justified secession. It was built on a violent American raid on a British ship years earlier that few of us are ever...
Ignorance and Vice: The One-Two Punch for Tyranny
“It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.” Samuel Adams warned us – tyranny is built on people who lack knowledge and strong morals. That’s because he knew freedom is built on the opposite foundation. “For they cannot live in...
It’s Not Just a Right. It’s a Duty.
Alter or abolish. Despite those words in the Declaration of Independence, the establishment would have you believe that any effort to resist their power is anti-American. But they have it backwards. Under the founders’ framework, the right to “provide new guards” is a...