General Discussion

This isn't Myanmar, Russia or some other place not use to individual liberty for centuries going back to the mother country. That's embedded deeply in our collective DNA. Try that shit and the blow back will be monumental. We do not cower. EOM.

Case in point, in colonial Boston, the British authorities knew exactly who the Sons of Liberty were. The ring leaders. Same in Virginia and every other colony. It was no secret. They knew the "trouble makers" were Samuel Adams, Benjamin Rush, Joseph Warren, James Otis, John Hancock, Patrick Henry and many others.

Yet those same British authorities, backed by British troops, didn't preemptively drag them all out of their homes and imprison them for what they thought, said, wrote and in some cases did. Of course not. We were British, by God. We don't fucking do that. The underlying concept being, the Rights of Englishmen. The very foundation of our Bill of Rights and legal system. Individual liberty was written into our genetics before our ancestors ever crossed the Atlantic and cannot be removed. Muck around with that only slightly, as Lord North's government attempted, and look what happened.