DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?

This weekend, the Gunny was in the library doing some research on historical facts and data of the pre-Revolutionary days in America. Some surprising things popped up.

Back in 1770, George the III, a narcissist not unlike the Thug-in-Chief we have now, kept the tea tax in place but did so not to raise revenues but merely to show the colonists that he COULD levy taxes on them as he liked. Sounds like the Congress, the Senate, and the White House when held by scum-lapping tax and spend liberals doesn't it?

On the heels of that, came the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of the 1770's the East India Company, the secondmost largest financial institution in England, was on the verge of bankruptcy! Unfortunately for Americans, Obama wasn't there to provide a bailout from our tax dollars so they raised the price of tea to three shillings a pound and Americans began to smuggle tea again. (The Kennedy's didn't enter into smuggling until Prohibition, then they got rich doing it.)

But here is where the Obomunists of their time enter into the picture. England allowed the East India Company, through laws "rammed" through Parliment (kinda like ObummerKare and soon-to-be Crap and Tax and an Open Door for illegals), to handle both the shipping AND the sale of tea. Quite a nice little monopoly, again, like the various cash cows of the liberals and what makes this even more like the Sweetheat Deal Chris Dodd and Banking Queen Bonnie Fwank scam with Fannie and Freddie is that the only five people allowed by the Crown to sell tea in the US were loyal to the Crown! Naturally, the sons of the Massachusetts (use an "e" on the end after the "tt" if you're an Obomunist) were included and the Tory Governor knew nothing about it. Kinda like Dodd and Fwank swearing they knew nothing about Fannie and Freddie before the collapse or Chuck U Schumer not knowing anything about that bank failure; you know, the one he wrote the letter about that started the panic that led to the failure, that put money in his pockets.

What really angered Americans then, as it does now, is that Parliment and now the Congress/Senate/White House worked/works to screw us over and then proclaim their innocence. What the Brits did was to try to reduce all trade in America to a "British Run Only" company that could bleed America dry at will. This is no different than the proposed VAT by the liberal morons currently in power. Once administered, this will never go away until we revolt again. The Congress will milk a VAT for more and more revenue, as we pay the piper's toll for it. John Dickinson wrote: "They have levied war, excited rebellions, dethroned princes, and sacrificed millions [of people] for the sake of gain." How like Dingy Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Obummer, Dodd, Bonnie Fwank, and the rest of the democrats [and their RINO myrmidons like Snowe, Collins, Grahamnesty and McShamnesty] who seek to impose their will on Americans through excessive taxation, forced ObummerKare [violates the Constitution], Crap and Tax, no drilling laws, no new refinery laws [knuckling under to the EcoNazis], and law after law that penalizes the majority for the vast but vocal minority!

All of this eventually led to the Tea Party and then the Port Act of 1774. The British, not unlike the clowns in power right now, from Mr $100.00 a pound Wagyu beef himself on down to the corrupt Dodd and Fwank, to the traitorous Henry "extremus nostrilus" Waxman, forced the issue to the point where Congress met and Patrick Henry spoke. Reflect on his words and see if they do not resonate in America today:

"Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. [Not unlike Obummer and Company laughing at the Tea Party] In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed [the dream of Democrats everywhere], and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775

Isn't it odd that we have beseeched Congress, made our voices heard, marched on DC not once, not twice, but THREE times, filed lawsuits, raised hell at Townhalls, and still we had Porkzilla rammed down our throats, still we had bailouts, Cash for Clunkers, ObummerKare, and now they're considering Crap and Tax, which will cripple our economy AND raise our utility costs, with Amnesty for Illegals and a Value Added Tax on the way! Is this not as it was in America in 1771-1775? History repeats itself only the tyrants are on our soil working everyday to oppress us as they pass laws that THEY think are what is BEST for us, as though we're children who need to be led around by the nose. The Gunny states that while liberals are stupid spoiled children who need that, the rest of us do not.

STAY THE COURSE-THE FIGHT IS JUST STARTING.