Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Falwell on 4th

WorldNetDaily: "In the mid-1700s the sentiment among the Colonists was that they should not be paying taxes to England and King George III. It was the event now known as the Boston Tea Party (1773) that largely brought the 13 colonies together to oppose this taxation without representation.

An English-owned tea company in India had been losing money, compelling England to levy a tax on tea sold in the colonies. One of the great heroes of the Revolution, Samuel Adams, along with several other Bostonians, dressed as Indians and hurled the India Company Tea cargo into the Massachusetts Bay. King George III was livid; but he was stubborn and refused to lift the tax.

Later, in Boston Harbor, as the colonists threw stones and taunted British soldiers, the soldiers fired into the crowd, killing some of the people.

The theme of war was quickly in the air."

That's right Rev. Falwell, our Founding Fathers were "rebels", or even "insurgents", dare we say "terrorists"? Our country was founded on the idea of resisting empire, but now, ironically, that is what we have become.