So, you think even the threat of being IRSed should be sufficient to silence patriotic and honest Americans?
Did you know that only about 40% of the colonial population participated in the fight against England? Something like 40% of the colonial population actively or inactively supported England. Then there was the 20% who took no side at all. Some of them were just apathetic bumps on a log, I’m sure. And then some there were those who thought it would be safer just to sit things out. Which of those two groups most describes you?
Are you a complete a$$hole or what? I simply stated he made a bad move in that he was going to bring heat on himself. I didn’t state he shouldn’t have done it. In otherwords, a$$hole, I was merely stating facts.
You pop off like a typical mouthy, done nothing, asshat, keyboard commando with your blowhard bluster. We’ll see who stands in the gap when the SHTF. I know you’ll ne nowhere in sight.
I’ve read a great deal of history in my life (I am now 60), and continue to do so to this day. It is by far my favorite subject.
Your numbers are not too far off. The consensus among historians is that the population was evenly divided by thirds as to their respective positions vis-a-vis the Revolution: 1/3 supported it; 1/3 opposed it and remained loyalists or Tories; and 1/3 just too a wait-and-see attitude, or didn’t care a whit omne way or the other.
Throughout history, in all lands, that 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 division seems to be a constant when the question of revolution arises. It is interesting.