Please read my whole post before you tell me I’m wrong. The Founding Fathers knew that they were traitors and dead men if they failed. (Ben Franklin: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”)
Its amazing how we complain about the media turning everything into a sound bite, and we do it right here by cutting a sound bite out of a short post.
Lighten up. I did not say you were wrong at all in what you wrote. I was providing added info on the matter from the Declaration of Independence.
That may be like a soundbite, but the entire Declaration is a series of bold assertions and aphorisn with a minimum of logical development. Those truths are self-evident? Nit accirding to the vast najority if humankind for recorded histiry. Our lifting the right and duty to revolt out if Jefferson’s question-begging tirade or carefully constructed explication of eternal truth depending on whether you agree, we can selectively quote him. It’s not taken out of context and doesn’t warp the meaning, anyway.
So what if they knew they could be hanged? That has nothing to do with it. Do you know the meaning if the term “right”? Revolters being right doesn’t mean they can’t be killed. It means it would be wrong for the British to do so.