[friendly]

Are we seeing the emergence of modern day Committees of Correspondence? Colonial patriots formed such networks during the decade of turmoil preceding the American Revolution to share information and plans of action

My favorite line in this nice piece.

[MEG33]

The left has many such groups.It is finally time we are also pushing our viewpoint AND being heard.Everyone was shocked that there were Republicans pushing into the room to prevent unmonitored counting of ballots in 2000, Florida..Mob action in 3 piece suits.Oh the shock!

[HighWheeler]

That was also my favorite line.

[Congressman Billybob]

FreeRepublic IS a Committee of Correspondence on an international scale. And it works just the way the original ones did, as planned by Jefferson and others in a tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia. That happened shortly before the Royal Governor of Virginia disbanded the legislature because it was getting out of hand -- no longer controllble.

The Committees of Correspondence included a number of citizens who had been elected to the legislatures -- like Jefferson's group in Virginia. But they were acting as private citizens when they formed the Committees because they were acting outside and beyond their commissions as legislators -- whether or not their particular legislature had been disbanded. Communications were not supposed to be made from Colony to Colony without going through the Royal Governors and with their approvals.

John / Billybob