Will January 6 Be the New July 4 for Our Descendants? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, January 12, 2023

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

On December 16, 1773, a small group of radicals in Boston broke the law. By dumping British tea into Boston Harbor, they defied the will of their long-standing government, violated property rights, and provoked a savage reaction by their rulers.

Far more than Tories condemned them. Moderates in 13 colonies backed away from the radical actions of an “extremist” anti-government group which had aggressively flouted the rule of law in the name of “liberty.”

Their motive? To stop the “tyrannical” British East India Company from imposing the kind of slavery on the Colonies that it had already imposed across India. The impact of this attack? A new set of harshly coercive laws imposed by the British Parliament. …

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