How do you start a rEVOLution?
Posted June 28th, 2007 by mlpyeatt
As an American History teacher, I have had the opportunity to teach my perspective on the American Revolution for over five years now. As I leave the classroom and enter the administration aspect of education, I am forced to reflect on the comparisons between the American Revolution that we learn about in school, and the rEVOLution that is taking place in our nation today with the presidential election of 2008.
The American Revolution did not begin over night. It took years for the American colonists to see the error and tyranny of the King. As early as The Sugar Act of 1764, Parliament began to limit the market of American colonists and coerce their way on the colonists’ lives both politically and economically. This is not much different than what is going on in The United States, with the exception that we have let it go on for 94 years.
Finally, we have our own Son of Liberty who is creating a new kind of Committee of Correspondence. This committee is growing. There are so many parallels from 1771 and Samuel Adams to 2007 and Ron Paul. As Sam Adams began his network of corresponding committees, the message of liberty and independence began to spread. Today, the Internet is our society of correspondents, and in my mind www.dailypaul.com is the Boston Committee of Correspondence. Ironically enough this website is run just outside of Boston, proving that the city of Boston still serves as it did 236 years ago.
It is now time to allow this new committee of Sons and Daughters of Liberty to grow and share the message of freedom that my grandfather, Dr. Ron Paul, has been talking about for over 30 years. He cannot do this alone.
The campaign is running strong and my grandfather remains excited about the prospect of his message of limited government, liberty, and freedom catching on. Don’t let the small things that seem like setbacks get you, as supporters, down. As we have seen recently in Iowa, what seems like a negative can become a positive.
I am making a plea to any supporter within a reasonable distance of Des Moines, Iowa to get in your car and battle increasing gas prices to attend the Ron Paul Life and Liberty Celebration at the Hy-Vee Center in Room C at 4:30pm. I will not be able to attend, as I will be in the wedding of my childhood friend. However, my brother, Mark, and sister, Valori, will be there representing our family. I hope the turnout is huge and we show the Iowans for Tax Reform that you cannot have a candidate forum about taxes without “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend.â€
Let’s make Monday another tremendous day for www.dailypaul.com with first-hand accounts from the event.
Libertas!
Matt
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That is fitting; I had to read up on it to even know what it was. And picturing Michael in the Arlington library just completes the circle. I remember emails from Michael when he’d just shuffled to and from the Arlington library - in the snow; no stranger there, that’s for sure.
This campaign is more important than any before in American history because what is of what it is fated to reveal, not necessarily for what it can or can’t do politically.
The DailyPaul as the Boston Committee of Correspondence? Doesn’t surprise me one bit. And the other post Matt, that was ‘A Good Read’ – to me, this is the epitome of all that is wrong; that congress has already authorized battlefield use of tactical-nukes and that we are threatening to use them; justified by our ‘kill it before it grows’ mentality, the Doctrine of Preemption.
Humbling...
Matt and Michael,
It's humbling to feel (if I dare say) that I am a part of this rEVOLution in some small way. I'm doing as much as I can with the time and resources I have available. I do this gladly for the sake of such good people whom I thought were all but extinct.
In the historic regard, I live just a few scant miles from William Penn's country estate and the point where Washington crossed the Delaware in Bucks County, Pa. I've taken my son there several times, and though so many years have passed since the Revolution, you can still feel the bristle of patriotic energy when you visit there. I think it's great to feel connected to the past through its remnants. You find that we're really no different from the people that fought the Revolution.
Excellent analogy Matt, I
Excellent analogy Matt,
I love American history and agree, we are in the same phase our forefathers were in.
I hope we will learn from them, we have to do it over again; not take the country, but take the country back.
Micheal,
Good points, let's learn the good points from Sam Adams though, not the bad points. He did some pretty rotten things along with the good stuff he did to help get this country started.
Thank you Matt
I have been thinking for some time now about Boston, and its role in the Revolution, and what am I doing here. I always expected that I'd spend my entire life in Seattle - the city where I was born and spent the first 34 years of my life. Random events brought me here to Arlington, MA. It is nice to hear you write about the DailyPaul as the Boston Committee of Correspondence!
At the moment, I'm sitting in the Arlington library, which sits not one block from the site of the Battle of Menotomy. I can actually see it from the window.
I have been to the site - the Jason Russell house - and meditated on how important it was to the Founders that they shed their blood for us. We've already had one bloody revolution. Let's not wait until conditions necessitate that we have another!
I cannot make it to Iowa either. I checked the plane fares, but with such short notice, the prices were out of reach for me. So I'm looking forward to the reports from the field also. To echo what Matt said - if you're anywhere in the area, please get to Iowa!
It is not often that one gets a chance to participate in a genuine revolution!
Michael