Today, 240 years ago, the battle of Lexington, and “the shot heard 'round the world,” took place, and it is a day on which we honor those who took a stand for Liberty, rallying others to their cause. Liberty is always a cause worth fighting for.
Unfair taxes, check.
Denied voting rights, check.
Confiscate guns, BOOM.
Fast forward 240 years: anyone attempts the same is labeled a domestic terrorist…
…in recent years, violence from the extreme right has again surged—and at levels reminiscent of the dark days of the 1990s. From 1995 through 2000, according to statistics from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, right-wing extremists were responsible for at least 47 different terrorist acts, conspiracies or plots.
However, during the past six years, from 2009 through 2014, right-wing extremists in the U.S. were involved in at least 42 actual or attempted terrorist acts.
In other words, right-wing violence today is actually at or very close to levels during the days of the Oklahoma City bombing.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/17/opinions/lauter-pitcavage-oklahoma-bombing/index.html
The biggest difference today is the many millions of citizens who gladly give up liberty for security paid for by others. Redistribution is the root of modern tyranny.
Fixed it. 
I always thought it was interesting that when you read back all the “abuses” that they experienced back in the 1700’s, dear ol’ Georgy doesn’t seem like that much of a tyrant anymore…
These days we have everything they wrote about and then some.
Sad but true
And we pay more taxes and have less freedom today than when we were under British rule.
I must disagree with the bolded part.
Why is that?
We have lost many freedoms over the years with the growth of the federal government. We have many government agencies appointed, not elected that write and enforce laws.
We have a government that spies on its citizens in ways that are incomprehensible to what the KGB were capable of. If the founding fathers wanted to start a new government today or revolution, they’d be arrested and thrown in jail. That plus many more things too many to list here.
We have an illusion of freedom, but we are living in a police state.
The founding fathers were right-wing domestic terrorists.
Indentured servitude. White land owning male suffrage. Oh, and that whole slavery thing.
But sure - the NSA is much worse than whips and plantations.
The longer I’ve been out of skool the more I concern myself with “the verities”. Surely, the mark of a contrary SOB and troublemaker…
One of my few heroes is Tom Paine, who certainly qualified on that score. Without him and “Common Sense”, and “The Crisis”, it’s doubtful we would have achieved independence.
None of which I really learned in skool.
I recommend this. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-freedom.html
The guy makes me want to stand up and cheer. And then hit the range.
Give it time the way this country is heading white Christian males will be treated like Jews were in Nazi Germany
Indentured servatude was barely present at the time of Lexington and Concord. That institution was replaced by slavery because of Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion in 1676. Most of his followers were former Indentured servents, who were poor, angry and armed. Slaves were only two of those.
Also to note, Indentured servents signed a “binding contract” to get themselves out of England, probably debtors prison, to the new world.
On topic: Everyone generally gets worked up with Paul Rever’s ride and “The Shot Heard Around the World”, but that is generally were it stops in classrooms (public education). It gets gritty for the British as they march back to Boston.