Dear Royal Baby: We Americans Apologize for Our Revolution; Please Be Our Absolute Monarch

[div style="background-color:#FFFF99;"]Dear Royal Baby:

You had an ancestor named King George III that we Americans said a lot of nasty things about, and we’d like to apologize to you, since you seem like a nice baby and anyway, we’ve gotten over our dissatisfaction with your Highness’s family. We wonder if you’d like to take back over in a few years.

See, our own ancestors really minded taxation without representation, and, no offense, but your great great great etc. grandfather didn't let us have real representation but gladly put taxes on things like our tea.

But we no longer mind the principle of taxation without representation. We’re actively trying to make it difficult for our poor people, minorities and college students to vote. We also won’t let 5 million people convicted of artificially defined “felonies” vote or run for office (sometimes inflicting $250 of property damages can make you a felon). All of these individuals pay Federal social security taxes if they work (and they all do at some point in their lives), which go into the general budget. Many pay state taxes, too. But we’re going to see if we can stop them from having representation even though they pay taxes. We’ll make them have i.d., which will require them to spend a lot of time running around and standing in line at the DMV, and will cost them money that they often don’t have. Anyway, we want them unrepresented but we want to raise their taxes. So there really wasn’t any point in making all that trouble at Boston Harbor over the tea taxes set by your ancestor. We’re fine with the way he used to do things, now...

King George III angered our ancestors by issuing “writs of assistance”– a kind of blanket search warrant that allowed police to enter private homes and businesses on fishing expeditions for evidence of smuggling. (Your ancestor was as hung up on “smuggling” as we are now about “terrorism”). For a while we had this silly fourth amendment to our constitution that required that police get a warrant before they went snooping through our records...



complete piece: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dear_royal_baby_we_americans_apologize_for_our_revolution_please_be_our_abs/