Common Sense

If anyone is interested I found a link to the third edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." In places it is kind of hard to understand but it's pretty interesting.

http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/

The Colonists Are Rebels!

I believe that the colonists were being rebels. (well thats the side im suposed to be on). They didnt really have the right to be against us. For one they were British. The British also were the people who funded them to come to America. And the reason that the British taxed the colonists was to help them get out of debt from the French and Indian war. The British won it for the coloists. The colonists barley even helped to win it. The British were the people who did all the work. So really the colonists have no good reason to be apposing.

Opposing the Patriots

Ok, here's my piece.

Taylor said that like they were trying to escape the British, Right? Well....that is a great assumption. A decent amount of people were going to the new world for fame, fortune and gold! She says "The British." When really, i think that the patriots were just trying to escape from the King of England. I don't think that they HATED the British people, they were British. Taylor makes it sound like they were no longer British people, yet they were. They just did not like the king at that time. They did not hate the whole land of England. ALSO i find it interesting how only one patriot has posted....hmmmm that's interesting.....lol. We were treating America how we treated out own people.

I am on the side of the patriots. I believe that the British shouldn't come and rule over us.
We left for the New land to have freedom. I believe that it would compleetly destroy the point of coming to America if we are just going to have the British rule over us. The British is what we were escaping. We want our freedom. We will not get the freedom we have so greatly strived for if we let them rule over us. If we let the British take hold of us now there is no turning back.

The Colonists are REBELS!!

We have invested our money, our troops, our time, and our very PEOPLE in this fine colony. And how are we treated in return? REBELLION!! Red-handed thievery!! The colonists call themselves "Americans" and seem to have completely forgotten their British roots. Throwing SNOWBALLS and even ROCKS at our brave soldiers who have left their mother country to go and keep order in this rebellious, uncivilized "country" is unheard-of. And now they are calling it the "Boston Massacre"!! Simply because our troops were forced to defend themselves from a threatening mob and accidently killed a few peasants. Boston seems to be a very rebellious city, for another astonishing event also took place here - the Boston Tea Party, as they call it. THREE BOATLOADS of FINE, INDIA TEA were ruthlessly destroyed. Good tea, good money, completely and utterly ruined. I really don't know about you lot, but I vote we punish these colonists and teach them a lesson - teach them to obey their mother country. The country that gave them all they have now. The country that we stand in today, our very own ENGLAND!!!

(I don't know if I did this right... but FYI I'm supposed to be a young politition in England who has an interesting view of the events leading to the American Revolution).

The American war for Independence

Though the Americans were justified in some ways for rebelling against the English, in some ways they did act like rebels. For example, in the Boston Massacre, a crowd of men were throwing stones and snowballs at British soldiers. Eventually, the soldiers fired at the mob, and killed five men. Though it was cruel for the British to fire at the men, the colonists were acting very foolishly on that occasion, and provoked the British to fire.

Another reason why the Americans sometimes acted as rebels is because Titus 3:1 tells us to "subject to rulers and authorities, and to obey." This was written when the Roman Empire was in control. The British government was not nearly as bad or corrupt as the Roman Empire, and yet Paul tells us to subject to rulers and authorities, not rebel.

Thirdly, many Africans were being enslaved on American plantations during the War of Independence. Americans wanted more rights, though they treated their slaves like garbage. Compared to the way slaves were treated, most of the colonists were treated very well.

These are just three reasons why the Americans who fought for independence were sometimes acting like rebels.

The Boston Tea Party

A major event in the starting of the American War for Independence was the Boston Tea Party, in which many Colonial men dressed up as Native Americans and threw a shipload of tea into the Boston Harbour. This was to make a point that the colonists were tired of paying huge, unreasonable taxes. Here's a link about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party