The Stamp Act was the last straw.
It was the search and seizure used to keep the populace in line that weakened the camel's back to the point where it could be so easily broken.
The King's men were looking for smugglers, they claimed, but they were denying the colonists the rights accorded to all Englishmen.
Privacy is so basic a right that it wasn't even thought to be placed in the bill of rights. It was such a given to the Founders that only the details of protecting it were considered worthy of discussion.
Amazing how far we have fallen.
Enjoy your chains.
You are perfectly free to start your own airline and hop aboard your own private jet all you want to.
Bwahahahahaha! That's excellent. Excellent! They also thought that it was so basic that everyone give half their income to the superior beings known as "mathematicians" that they didn't think to put it in there.
Make your checks out to AmishDude.
Amazing how far we have fallen. Enjoy your chains.
Have you considered suicide?
May I suggest it?