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To: Grand Old Partisan
On a similar note, the stamp taxes, tea taxes, and the sort were all the law of the land for Britain in the 1760's and 70's. The colonies defied those laws by tarring the tax collectors, refusing to pay for the stamps, and dumping the tea into the harbor. Does that make them in the wrong?
30 posted on 02/26/2003 1:56:58 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Now as then, every American must decide whether to defend our nation against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
42 posted on 02/26/2003 2:18:57 PM PST by Grand Old Partisan
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