Let us never Forget the Boston Massacre and lead forever England the oppressor.
NOTE: This thread is about the Boston Massacre. All unrelated post will be towed away sooner or later.On this day in 1770, tensions between British soldiers and American colonists erupt. British soldiers fire into a crowd in an event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre.
For the next several years, an oration was given on the anniversary of that terrible tragedy. Speakers commemorated the event—but also urged their fellow colonists to action.
War against Great Britain loomed. “If you, with united zeal and fortitude, oppose the torrent of oppression,” Joseph Warren asserted in his 1772 oration, “if you feel the true fire of patriotism burning in your breasts . . . you may have the fullest assurance that tyranny, with her whole accursed train, will hide their hideous heads in confusion, shame and despair.”
He expressed confidence that the “SAME ALMIGHTY Being” who’d helped Americans in the past would help again. “May we ever be a people favoured of GOD,” he concluded. “May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue . . . .”
John Hancock echoed such themes in 1774. “I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny,” he declared. He, too, sought divine assistance in fighting British tyranny.
“et us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe,” he concluded, “who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity. And having secured the approbation of our hearts, by a faithful and unwearied discharge of our duty to our country, let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of him who raiseth up and pulleth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as he pleases . . . .”
Would our Founders still think we were resisting tyranny? Would they wonder why we don’t seek divine assistance? Would they be surprised that abandoning some of these principles has left us so angry and divided?
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Not that you were around but take a look at America's past history before you nit pick about us.
Here's a classic example of an attack by the U.S.Army..
In the frigid dawn of January 29, 1863, Sagwitch, a leader among the Shoshone of Bia Ogoi, or Big River, in what is now Idaho, stepped outside his lodge and saw a curious band of fog moving down the bluff toward him across a half-frozen river. The mist was no fog, though. It was steam rising in the subzero air from hundreds of U.S. Army foot soldiers, cavalry and their horses. The Army was coming for his people.
Over the next four hours, the 200 soldiers under Colonel Patrick Connor’s command killed 250 or more Shoshone, including at least 90 women, children and infants. The Shoshone were shot, stabbed and battered to death. Some were driven into the icy river to drown or freeze. The Shoshone men, and some women, meanwhile, managed to kill or mortally wound 24 soldiers by gunfire.
Historians call the Bear River Massacre of 1863 the deadliest reported attack on Native Americans by the U.S. military—worse than Sand Creek in 1864, the Marias in 1870 and Wounded Knee in 1890.
The thing is, he's too bloody daft to realise that God hating iniquity was the very point I was making about his crooked Catholic soul.
He's harping on about being one of God's chosen ones by zip code when at the time his ancestors were on an entirely different continent. He's trying to take personal credit for defeating the British because his grandparents were lucky enough to be allowed into America after the fact.
Like being born in a halfway decent country is an act of heroism.
Ps. I'm chuffed to bits you got your independence, it was exactly the right thing to do and the right way to be. It's just a shame you haven't the sense to learn from your past.
The thing is, he's too bloody daft to realise that God hating iniquity was the very point I was making about his crooked Catholic soul.
He's harping on about being one of God's chosen ones by zip code when at the time his ancestors were on an entirely different continent. He's trying to take personal credit for defeating the British because his grandparents were lucky enough to be allowed into America after the fact.
Like being born in a halfway decent country is an act of heroism.
Ps. I'm chuffed to bits you got your independence, it was exactly the right thing to do and the right way to be. It's just a shame you haven't the sense to learn from your past.
May I suggest you get your facts right before placing blame.
The riot began when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel. A British officer, Captain Thomas Preston, called in additional soldiers, and these too were attacked, so the soldiers fired into the mob, killing 3 on the spot (a black sailor named Crispus Attucks, ropemaker Samuel Gray, and a mariner named James Caldwell), and wounding 8 others, two of whom died later (Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr).