Untrue. In 1775 the Crown sought to put down an illegal and violent insurrection on the part of their own subjects and it seems to me you'd have supported them as a Loyalist had you been around back then.
What we call our 'Revolution' most British historians properly consider a civil war, or a violent insurrection. It was totally illegal under British law yet it happened anyway.
You sir, are on the wrong side of this argument and on the wrong side of history.
No. The response to the Tea Party should have been legal action. Rather than that, the English government occupied Boston and closed the harbor, denying due process to its people. The various colonies responded to that peacefully: providing food and goods to Boston over land.
In response to the failure to have the damages to tea repaid, Gage, the military governor, sent out armed soldiers to imprison colonial leaders and steal colonial property. That is when the fighting started.
BOSTON - April 20
National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, had links to a radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against local tax collection offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed weapons. Governor Gage had issued a ban on private ownership of weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting earlier this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms. One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists simply obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in Lexington’s town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths.
Before order could be restored, armed citizens from the surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor has also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
First reported on April 20, 1775
Update:
Be on the lookout for Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, and remain at large.
this donmeaker is a collectivist/socialist/statist.
So what if we in Louisiana want to have independence and freedom and live our lives how we want to free of oppressive taxation? what’s it to you collectivists who want to enslaves us to the government? Yes we want to secede and you are not our masters to tell us we can’t.
if you add up all the taxes it’s at least 60% of our incomes . add to those burdens the oppressive federal government as in the IRS oppressing conservatives, Obama’s unconstitutional acts, burdensome regulations etc.
so we have the right to peacefully secede from this tyranny in DC but the collectivists/democrats say we don’t and must submit to tyranny.
democrat obama and democrats are the extremist socialists/statists.
all we want is for the government to leave us alone, to leave businesses alone and to leave the free market alone. all we want is to live our lives how we want to ,to be left alone. that’s called freedom and it’s what we want . we want liberty and independence and for that we are extremists these socialists/democrats say. they say we are racists because we want smaller government.
when have we ever gotten anything? when has government been reduced in size ? Never. but they don’t even want to talk to us . we have to secede now .we can’t deal with these liberals/democrats. let them be slaves of the government in their stupid socialist utopia . i call for states to secede. why aren’t more here calling for this ? why aren’t our conservative leaders (Rush, Savage, Levin , coulter, Palin etc) even calling for the resignation of this Obama communist tyrant for his many violations of the Constitution and the law?