-Sons of Liberty-

For posterity, I will bump key subject matter thread's for review and reminder.

Thank you to those who have had commented and or kept the topic going. Time passes by, yet the issues remain.

Do we learn from history, or are we just doomed to repeat it, like some form a hell loop...?

The common and continual mischief's of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.
It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion.
George Washington, Washington's farewell address: delivered to Congress on September 19, 1796


Timeless words to remember, especially these days.

Was compelled to update with some history.
Even if I am talking to myself. 😁

early as 1687, the Rev. Wise was already teaching that “taxation without representation is tyranny,” [74] the “consent of the governed” was the foundation of government, [75] and that “every man must be acknowledged equal to every man.” [76] In 1772 with the Revolution on the horizon, two of Wise’s works were reprinted by leading patriots and the Sons of Liberty to refresh America’s understanding of the core Biblical principles of government. [77] (The first printing sold so fast that a quick second reprint was quickly issued. [78]) Significantly, many of the specific points made by Wise in that work subsequently appeared four years later in the very language of the Declaration of Independence. As historian Benjamin Morris affirmed in 1864:

Do not consent

a reply to: ADVISOR

first i've seen or hard of this thread. saw the title and first thought i had was 3rd grade social studies and the fictional history we had to read and watch. Johnny Tremain.



it has stuck with me ever since.