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10 posted on 04/04/2020 2:00:21 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)

Opposition to impressment by the Royal Navy was one of the causes of the American Revolutionary War—it was one of the 27 colonial grievances in the Declaration of Independence, number 26 on the list.

He (King George III) has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

I would not allow fake news to incite me to call for practices that turn the USA into its antithesis.

16 posted on 04/04/2020 3:49:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)