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Title: FROM TOM CRYER AND TRUTH ATTACK--THE HMS GASPEE
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Published: Aug 6, 2008
Author: Tom Cryer
Post Date: 2008-08-06 00:11:18 by James Deffenbach
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Greetings, Fellow Patriots. In 1772 the American Revolution started with its first significant act of resistance, not at Concord, not in Boston harbor, but in an otherwise nondescript and unmarked stretch of sand and water in Rhode Island. The scene was in an unpronounceable bay in tiny Rhode Island where the people had been terrorized, abused and subjected to plunder and theft by the H.M.S. Gaspee, a ship sent by the king to impress upon the people of Rhode Island the futility of objecting to British taxation. The Gaspee and its cruel master and crew wasted no time. Considering their mission punitive rather than for enforcement, they applied imaginary taxes to those who owed none, taking whatever they chose and imposing unsubstantiated "taxes" on anyone unfortunate enough to catch their attention. Sound familiar to anyone? The locals soon tired of this ill treatment and determined to do something about it, providing the first coordinated act of defiance to unlawful and unjust taxation and to the authority of the crown. They lured the Gaspee into running aground at a place now called Gaspee Point, RI. There they boarded the ship, seized the captain and crew and reclaimed their money and property. Then they put the ship to the torch, burning it to the water line. Larry Becraft and I had occasion to visit the very site of this, the true place of conception, if not birth, of our great nation. When one stops to think about what has since transpired, of all the sacrifices to obtain our independence and then to defend and secure it, all beginning right there where we now stood, one cannot but pause and reflect reverently: Or not. Tom Let's get the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Ship) Gaspee
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
times and people are very different now than they were then...i don't see [us] taking back what's ours and burning the ship down. it may sink from its own weight though. fun to see the photo of tom and larry. thanks for posting it.
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fun to see the photo of tom and larry. thanks for posting it. You have a point. I don't know if there are very many people these days who would do what they did. Most people don't want to risk anything and fail to see that they are risking everything by their simple refusal to just say no. Or to say I am mad as hell and I am not taking anymore. You are welcome. I think Tom Cryer is in the same mold as the founding fathers. As you know he thumbs his nose at them and tells other people about their scam. I admire him.
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#2. To: christine (#1)
times and people are very different now than they were then...i don't see [us] taking back what's ours and burning the ship down. it may sink from its own weight though.
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