Off The Editor’s Desk – 1-13-2021
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Is America headed for a second Boston Tea Party?
This week I am printing a column that I thought was very appropriate, which was written on December 16th of last year by Catherine Mortensen who is Vice President of Communications at Americans for Limited Government. I was reluctant with this following last Wednesday’s circus in our nation’s capitol. It appears to me that President Trump lost his sensibility by not putting an end to the party before it got out of hand. I applaud Vice President Pence for his handling of Congress and doing the right thing.
Now on with the article by Catherine Mortensen and the three actions every Patriot should take today.
“Today (December 16) marks 247 years since a group of Massachusetts patriots know as the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and snuck aboard three tea ships docked in the Boston Harbor. Once aboard the ships the men dumped and destroyed every one of the 342 boxes of tea sent by the East India Company.
“These actions were in defiance of Britain’s new Tea Act, which set forth rules and restrictions regarding the colonies ability to trade and carry tea. The British attempt to raise revenue by taxing tea and other things spurred the events of the Boston Tea Party, which sparked the American Revolution and set the framework for gaining America’s independence.
“The colonists were rebelling less against taxation than they were the lack of representation in the matter. They had no voice in their governance. And that is exactly how millions of American patriots feel today. They believe they have been disenfranchised by widespread election fraud, and by key states breaking election laws in direct violation of the Constitution.
“Representation (or lack thereof) is the issue then and now.
“And for anyone who fears that talk of a second Boston Tea Party sounds like embarking on a trip to Crazy Town, consider how crazy it would have been dressing up as a Mohawk Indian on a cold December night and dumping tea into the icy waters of the Boston harbor.
“Clay Clark is an Oklahoma small business consultant and host of the conservative Thrive Time Radio Show who hears from listeners across the country every day who are frustrated and angry and looking for where to channel their outrage.
“Republicans and Democrats who reject the Deep State are coming together to form a new party.” Clark said. “It doesn’t have a name yet, but I am calling it the Patriot Party. It is made up of people who love God, our individual freedoms, and we believe that government should be instituted amongst men to ensure our individual liberties, whereas the Deep State mindset believes a big government is needed to limit our individual freedom.
“To be clear, Clark is not calling for a second Boston Tea Party. Instead, he believes we are headed for a ‘civil war of information.’ He offers three key actions patriots can take now to fight for freedom.
•Stop getting news from bad sources. Go to new conservative
news outlets. Some of his favorites include: The Dan Bongino Show; Newsmax TV; One America News; Just the News.
“Be Careful about the news and information that you allow into your family’s homes and hearts, Clark adds. He notes that his radio show, along with many other conservative news outlets, has seen a huge increase in listeners since the election. ‘Did I get that much better? No, I didn’t. It’s just that people have been lied to and they are discovering that the main stream media is bought and paid for by large corporations with deep ties to the Communists.’
•Stop funding globalists by being intentional about who you buy from.
“When you buy from a company such as Facebook or Twitter, or Microsoft, you are empowering globalist, Clark warns. ‘We need to be buying local to Starve out the globalists.’
•Let them know that we support candidates who support America, not the Deep State.’ “
Now I would like to note that my paternal grandmother was an Otis and in that family there was a patriot named James Otis, Jr. He was born in 1725 and was a lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston and a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly and an early advocate of the Patriot Views against the policy of Parliament, which lead to the American Revolution. He is given credit for the phase, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
I am not saying I am descended from him, maybe from one of his brothers. The bio I read about him finished with the following statement.
“Already prone to fits of insanity, Otis was struck on the head during an altercation with a Crown Officer in 1769 and was rendered harmlessly insane, with only occasional lucid intervals until his death. He died in 1783 after being struck by lighting.”
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton