Who Were the Sons of Liberty? MUST SEE TV

Of course, its dramatized, but it's enjoyable and I learned a few new things that checked out.

It's an entertaining 3 hours.  You will want to watch it several times.  

Buy one and give to some uninformed, angry fool.

It's free on a Roku and other streaming services.

Anarchy rules in 1776 as a secret group of radical young Americans join together in the fight for independence from the sovereign roll of a king and his empire. They test authority. They incite protest. They create the blueprint for modern democracy... as they Sons of Liberty.

It didn't even start out as a rebellion, much less a Revolution.  

They were just sick of not being represented and being taxed at will.

  Ben Franklin was the first to name the upheaval they were all living through.

"A NEW Country"

The revolutionaries today are the Woke, turning everything into "CRAZY", while we desperately cling to what those men gave us. It began years ago, but the bad guys are the revolutionaries now, NOT like ours were, but more like Castro and other despots who rule over an ignorant populace instigated by some false victim,  that has nothing to do with LIBERTY.

 The British mistake was underestimating to colonists, the enemy.  

I'm afraid that's what we have done with the left.

TTC

A bit more historical short story here:

Who Were the Sons of Liberty? - HISTORY

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The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. The goal of the radicals was to push moderate colonial leaders into a confrontation with the Crown.

Samuel Adams (left) and John Hancock were prominent members

 of the Sons of Liberty.

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The Sons’ defiance of the British not only helped spur the Revolutionary War, it also fostered an American tradition of grassroots activism that various activist groups have applied over the centuries to push for change.

The Sons’ most prominent leader was Samuel Adams, the son of a wealthy brewer who was more interested in radical rabble-rousing than commerce. Adams wrote his masters thesis at Harvard on the lawfulness of resisting British rule. While George Washington eventually led the war effort against the British, “the truth is that there might not have been a fight to begin with had it not been for the work of Sam Adams,” writes historian Les Standiford.

Another key member was John Hancock, who later was immortalized by his flamboyant signature on the Declaration of Independence. James Otis, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and Dr. Benjamin Rush, among others, were also involved in the group.

 

After Parliament passed the Townshend Acts in 1767, which imposed import duties on goods such as china and glass, Adams organized a boycott to keep British goods out of Massachusetts altogether. According to Adams biographer Dennis Fradin, the Sons enforced the boycott by sending boys to smash the windows and smear excrement on the walls of local shops that didn’t comply. If that didn’t work, the proprietor faced the risk of being kidnapped and tarred and feathered, a painful, humiliating torture that could leave lasting scars.

Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Jordan: “Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”