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Dead broke, desperate, after having lost much of his land, even selling off the Sword that General Lafayette gave to him...Daniel Shays & The Regulators revolted against the Revolution.

Private Companies hired out Soldiers, and placed them under the command of General Lincoln...and Gorgeous George with his very rich buddies, hammered through the "Constitution" to fix this...with the beauty of "Martial Law"...you know, the ORIGINAL "Patriot Act" to fix "Terrorists".

Samuel Adams ("Founder"), lover of Liberty, shoved through the "Riot Act", empowering Sheriff's to kill rioters in groups of 12 or more, and said- "In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death."

John Jay (first Supreme Court Justice and "Founder") said- "The people who own the country ought to govern it."

John Adams ("Founder") said- "The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it." -John Adams, June 21, 1811, Letter to Benjamin Rush

Thomas Jefferson ("Founder") a "fighter" against "banks" said- "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."

Adam Smith ("Wealth of Nations", 1776)- "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."

And yet, for all this talk of "Legalized Freedom" and "Licensed Liberty"- All the poor still died broke, and still do.

Remember Daniel Shays. Remember Dorr's Rebellion. Remember the Bonus Army, remember Pretty Boy Floyd...remember them all.

They scared the crap out the system, and the system hunted them down for it.

Screw the farcical "Occupy Wall-Street Revolution", LEGENDS and TRUE GIANTS walked America, more man than YOU will ever be.

The wheels on this bus go 'round and 'round, right back to where you started.

The rest, they say, is "HisStory" (history).

http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/​