It Seems Kind of Ironic

I was thinking about our history as I took the trash out to a chilly morning.  It was a chilly December night in 1773 when the radical group “The Sons of Liberty” went to the Boston harbor to protest the imposition of tax on tea imports.  This was the last of the duties (taxes) imposed by the Townshend Acts of 1767.  The intent of Charles Townshend’s duties was to help defray cost to the crown for maintaining and defending the colonies.  Those affected by this burden saw it as governmental overreach.

Today, as we look at the descendants of those radicals we find the radical spirit still remains.  Only now they are in favor of higher taxes (as long as it’s not on them), and greater government control (as long as it is by people they agree with).  When others come to disagree and suggest the original Sons of Liberty had the right idea, that perhaps there is too much government and the spending of the government is really overreach -- those views are yelled down.