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To: JamesP81

I wasn't talking about guns. I was talking about your vaunted principles, like getting high -- even though it is against the law.

There was a similar movement (though not funded by that lover of liberty George Soros, like yours is) during the founders' day.

They thought it was wrong that making whiskey should be taxes (as a sin) whilst others were free to enjoy untaxed wine.

President Washington put his uniform back on, and together with a couple of other framers and 13,000 men (more than he ever headed in the Revolution, probably) -- and went after them.

He proclaimed that they should be hanged. These bravos fled into the woods.

And that's just one example.


250 posted on 11/22/2006 11:54:43 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

It's called the Whiskey Rebellion and was probably this country's first example of how you should never question the power of the state, especially when it comes to taxes. Just ask Wesley Snipes.


256 posted on 11/22/2006 11:59:27 AM PST by rednesss
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