A Digital Pamphleteer

In the years leading up to our nation's Declaration of Independence in 1776, Great Britain began to lay a heavy tax and regulatory burden upon the American colonist.

• 1764: The Sugar Act, The Currency Act
• 1765: The Stamp Act, The Quartering Act
• 1766: The Declaratory Act
• 1767: The Townshend Revenue Acts
• 1773: The Tea Act
• 1774: The Coercive Acts, The Massachusetts Regulating Act, The Government Act
  

Growing frustration among the colonists led to calls for disobedience and various meetings to devise a course of action to deal with Britain's oppressive ways. Into this angry mix came farmers, shopkeepers, ministers and others who began publishing political pamphlets designed to stir the hearts and minds of their countrymen. Along with those meeting and planning, these citizen-writers helped to set the stage for our eventual break with Britain.

Today we Americans are beginning to feel a similar unrest, a like minded sense that government power has again become excessive and abusive. Citizens of today, like colonists of old, are raising their voices and publishing their concerns. In the womb of our nation's birth, these patriot writers came to be known as pamphleteers.

In the digital age, we blog.

I am currently engaged with a new organization named NoVA912. Inspired by Glenn Beck's The 912 Project, NoVA912 is the local, Northern Virginia expression of this movement. We are also loosely linked with the nationwide Tea Party Movement.

Millions across the nation are now mobilizing to raise our voices to our nation's leaders, particularly those in Congress. The Congress, after all, is "the People's House."

Under the banner of "No Taxation Without Representation," America's citizen-patriots rose up and stood against the autocratic ways of our mother country. With billions of corporate and special interest dollars finding their way into the pockets and bank accounts of our corrupted representatives, we Americans once again find ourselves being taxed and regulated without true representation.

In this blog, I will record and publish my personal insights and observations in this current, history-making cosmic shift in American culture and politics.

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