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To: MeganC

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.


69 posted on 10/17/2013 9:59:23 AM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: donmeaker

So you oppose illegal violent insurrections except when you don’t.

So noted.


73 posted on 10/17/2013 10:02:06 AM PDT by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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