“But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was affected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”
John Adams – 1818
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Concord Hymn
Stucky says:
GREAT QUOTE!!
Imagine IF ….. the American colonists were given tons of Free Shit, just like is given today …. would there have been a Revolution?
I do not think so. The goob’mint we now have knows EXACTLY what it is doing …. creating a people ADDICTED to Servitude via Free Shit.
Such people will never have a “radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections …” that leads to a second revolution. Sadly.
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31st December 2012 at 12:43 pm
Administrator says:
Stuck
Less than 10% of the population participated in the American Revolution. It doesn’t take a majority to prevail.
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31st December 2012 at 12:54 pm
Stucky says:
Admin
I HOPE & PRAY you are correct.
But … (so solly) …. the Colonists didn’t face the challenges the New Revolutionists face today; an incredibly powerful gub’mint with Technology to track almost EVERYONE to keep them in line and with laws and weapons to match their Evil machinations.
But …. I HOPE & PRAY you are correct.
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31st December 2012 at 1:07 pm
OF says:
With a government like this 10% are gone in a day…
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31st December 2012 at 1:23 pm
Anonymous says:
Perhaps now StuckenAndre has a fighting chance.
http://www.stripes.com/news/pentagon-spending-on-prescription-drugs-soars-1.202415
An analysis of Pentagon drug purchases since 2002 published Sunday by the Austin American-Statesman (http://bit.ly/S08nuI ) found, for example, that last year the Defense Department spent more on pills, injections and vaccines than it did on Black Hawk helicopters, Abrams tanks, Hercules C-130 cargo planes and Patriot missiles combined.
And the rapid rise is attributed less to wounded soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than to retirees buying prescriptions for ailments such as arthritis, osteoporosis and diabetes. There are 15 active military bases in Texas and about 1.7 million veterans, the second highest veteran concentration in the country, according to the Texas Veterans Commission.
Officials with the military’s health care program Tricare say Pentagon spending on drugs increased by more than 123 percent since 2002 to $6.8 billion in 2011
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31st December 2012 at 1:38 pm
Micro-Be says:
Admin –
Not trying to argue the merits of the American Revolution, but in general, do we not consider it immoral when 10% of any group makes choices that drastically affect the rest of the group? Conversely, 90% cannot morally coerce the 10%. It seems to be a conundrum. I suppose one could argue that freeing “slaves” is always moral, but is “freeing” non-chattel “slaves” that are more-or-less content moral? All I know is that oppression is wrong. It would be one thing if the 10% merely revolted to demand better treatment, but it is quite another thing when 10% revolt and set up a new country for the rest (even though for us the Constitution wasn’t a bad document). To me it is just trading the old boss for the new boss.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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31st December 2012 at 3:15 pm
card802 says:
The original 3 percenters:
“During the Revolutionary War, only THREE percent of the people actually fought against Great Britain.
Only TEN percent of the citizens actively supported that three percent.
Approximately TWENTY percent considered themselves to be on the side of the Revolution, but they did not actively participate.
Towards the climatic end of the war, approximately THIRTY percent actually fought on the side of the British.
The rest of the citizens had no disposition either way. They didn’t care. They didn’t want anything to do with what they deemed to simply be a political issue.”
“The sanctity, liberty, and freedoms of this nation were brought about by the unselfish, honorable, patriotic, committed, and determined acts of a mere 3%.
This three percent didn’t let the comforts of life blind them to the eternal significance of freedom. They didn’t allow evil speaking to sway what their heart told them was true.
They didn’t postpone their actions for a more convenient time.
They didn’t value their own life over the life and liberty of their fellow citizens.
In many cases, they sealed their testimony of Freedom, Liberty, and Choice with their blood and the blood of their families.
Although it was only three percent, it was still sufficient to create a nation which was to be an example to all the rest of the world of a truly free republic. This three percent laid the foundation of the most powerful and prosperous nation on the earth.
This valiant three percent manifested to the entire nation, and surely even the world, the unalienable value of hope, faith, family, virtue and freedom.”
Oh fuck that, give me some cheese, Honey BooBoo is on….
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31st December 2012 at 3:41 pm
card802 says:
Mico-Be,
Too much to go into on what the American Revolution was fought for and why. But basically it was because the British government ran up a huge debt, and wanted the colonists to pay their “fair share.”
So the mother country started passing tax after new tax on the colonists. The pisser was the colonists could not vote for the members of parliament who voted on the new taxes, they just had to take it up the ass. You know, that entire taxation without representation stuff.
So the King started to confiscate land and charge new fees for just about anything.
It was time for some real “change” and the 3%ers showed up and kicked ass.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
– Mark Twain
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31st December 2012 at 4:00 pm
flash says:
…powerful words.
True, This! -
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! – itself a nothing! -
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! – Take away the sword -
States can be saved without it!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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31st December 2012 at 4:18 pm
Bruce says:
Half the people maybe pacified with all the free shit and more frees shit. The wars and rage on and the police state grows lining the pockets of the Military-Security-Police State Complex. The Corporation’ are subsidized and all low wage employers are backdoor subsidized with government assistance programs for their underplayed labor that still can’t compete with foreign wages and work hours.
The dependencies of most nations, of all groups and classes no matter their plight or agenda if they have one are so interwoven the system holds together. Though incredibly resilient and impervious to realities and math the world system of mutual fraud, delusion corruption, greed, desire and need at the lowest to highest levels will all come apart at the seams sooner or later.
Someone is paying and will have to pay for it and/or take on debt to afford it. Maybe the 3% representing those so burdened my become belligerent. But even if there is no outright armed revolution things will not end well for those in government or for us. When the dam bursts it will be Historic ugly. Deadly Ugly. And for most Final Ugly.
We are Doomed.
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31st December 2012 at 9:24 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I figure that eventually, much like now for LLPOH, HZK and thousands of small business owners, it will become pointless for individuals to go to work anymore. A point will be reached when fuel, food etc become so expensive that your wages will not pay for it. That is gonna be the breaking point I think. When people who WANT to work but can no longer do so, when they reach THAT point, it will be game over. Break out the pitchforks.
We might get there sooner if Congress does not get to kicking the can down the road with respect to unemployment insurance extensions. Imagine all those people with no more income. The FEMA CAMPS should be full of FSA members with “malfunctioning” EBT & SNAP cards long before they get around to rounding the rest of us up.
I_S
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31st December 2012 at 4:07 am
Anon Emous says:
I am by no means an intellectual, but it seem funny to me that a mere 3% could over throw what was then the great power of the world. Not only that but the spark that started it was a mere 1% tax on tea. If we step back an compare todays situation to then there are ridiculous similarities. The names have changed but the situation is the same. We have a president instead instead of a king who can do pretty much whatever he wants and get away with it (including voter fraud). We have a congress instead of parliament. Who can increase thier pay at will and simple create another tax to foot the bill. Then there’s the american people instead of the colonies. The thing that really makes me mad about this is at least the 3% of the colonist were willing to do something about it. I really don’t think you could find 1% that weren’t so lazy they would be willIng to do something. As an American I am ashamed at what we have become. I am ashamed for those who have fought and died for such a useless body of people. It would have been better to have let the whole thing burn and spared the blood. I only hope that someday the people get tired of it and organize again. I will be one of the first in line to sign up.
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31st December 2012 at 5:44 am
flash says:
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
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31st December 2012 at 6:06 am