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Old 05-28-2008, 05:51 PM
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Is Samuel Adams Spinning in His Grave?
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Hello Freedomphiles! The descendents of American Patriot Samuel Adams have sold out their namesake's values. Read all about it in my Nolan Chart exclusive. Here's an excerpt:

  • In 1765, the Stamp Act was passed, taxing essentially every document written in the colonies. It was Adams' Committees of Correspondence, which was the way around British rules against organizing colonial government, that was able to call the Stamp Act Congress, which sent a letter of grievance to the king. It also galvanized the colonists in civil disobedience that made it impossible to collect the tax. All thirteen colonies adopted these Committees of Correspondence, which ultimately became The Continental Congress that gave us the Declaration of Independence.

    Even worse, though, was the Tea Act, a mercantilist scheme by Brittain to give East India Tea an unfair advantage by putting a tax on all tea except theirs. Adams wrote a pamphlet against this, saying it would "destroy the trade of the colonies."

    He didn't stop there, though. He formed The Sons of Liberty and they snuck aboard the East India Tea ships, dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped all 342 chests of East India tea into Boston Harbor.

    It is with that in mind that I laugh in bemused irony at the story out of yesterday morning's Boston Globe...


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Sam Adams was a terrorist. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were terrorist organizations that not only used psychological threats against legal officials, they went about and forcibly vandalized, destroyed private property, burned down people's homes, and set alight tax collectors in effigy. They, and groups like them inspired others to tar and feather royal collectors.

What a guy.


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Sam Adams was a terrorist. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were terrorist organizations that not only used psychological threats against legal officials, they went about and forcibly vandalized, destroyed private property, burned down people's homes, and set alight tax collectors in effigy. They, and groups like them inspired others to tar and feather royal collectors.

What a guy.
I think of terrorists as people who target civilians, so a more apt comparison would be Truman.

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I think of terrorists as people who target civilians, so a more apt comparison would be Truman.

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A few definitions agree with you.
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A few definitions agree with you.
I honestly think that the definition of the term "terrorist" has been so expanded as to almost be meaningless anymore.

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So creating an organization that goes around attacking merchant property, destroying it, burning down your homes to scare you, and then tarring and feathering you in order to attain a political goal isn't a form of terrorism?

What is it? A happy har har?

Terrorism involves unconventional tactics used to disrupt, instill fear, or destroy to support or attain a political goal, usually by cell-like units. It may or may not be supported officially by a larger government.
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So creating an organization that goes around attacking merchant property, destroying it, burning down your homes to scare you, and then tarring and feathering you in order to attain a political goal isn't a form of terrorism?

What is it? A happy har har?

Terrorism involves unconventional tactics used to disrupt, instill fear, or destroy to support or attain a political goal, usually by cell-like units. It may or may not be supported officially by a larger government.
It's revolution - something that you and certain others here should understand.
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It's revolution - something that you and certain others here should understand.
Actually, this was before the "revolution." But it doesn't make it any less terrorism anyway, even if it were.
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dont know about the other comments, but do know that sam adams certainly makes a decent beer
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I am pretty sure Sam Adams is damn proud to be called a Terrorist then be called a Slave.
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