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Originally posted by beachwalker
So the arguement that this is some "Communist plot", etc. is far from the truth. RI was FAR more communist in the 1780's. You wish should be that they ARE a collective society today. That would have not allowed for this to happen.
My how times have changed..............
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(I read the part that I'm quoting several times... and everytime around I see a different meaning in those words. It's scary, but my post are not reflecting you. It's only my opinion and opinions are like a$$es, everybody got one... none alike)
I agree that times have changed, but they are also the same.
If "Communism / sosialism" are so great, why isn't USSR and East Germany still around? I grew up in a country where your personal income tax was +50% of you gross pay, you were limited to how many hours of overtime you could work in a year. If you worked more than 4hr's in any given week your overtime was taxed at 90%. Your taxes supported so called free medical, dental and sick pay. (Nothing is free in life).
The common man was protecting his rights and his freedom here in RI.
This quote are directly from
State of RI History Chapter 3:
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Beginning with strong opposition in Newport to the SugarAct (1764), with its restrictions on the molasses trade, the colony engaged in repeated measures of open defiance, such as the scuttling and torching of the British customs sloop Liberty in Newport harbor in July 1769, the burning of British revenue schooner Gaspee on Warwick's Namquit Point in 1772, and Providence's own "Tea Party" in March 1775. Gradually the factions of Ward and Hopkins put aside their local differences and united by endorsing a series of political responses to alleged British injustices. On May 17, 1774, after parliamentary passage of the Coercive Acts (Americans called them "Intolerable"), the Providence Town Meeting became the first governmental assemblage to issue a call for a general congress of colonies to resist British policy. On June 15 the General Assembly made the colony the first to appoint delegates (Ward and Hopkins) to the anticipated Continental Congress.
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I love to read, it's almost as fun as fishing.
BTW, beachwalker I'm glad fishing are great. I'm on vacation next week and I'm ready to fish all night. And now I know what books to bring, RI history and so on.
Nils
