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They look so nice in their wigs and nifty little outfits, but the verbal combat at the beginning makes things look kind of tame now…

Consider this:

Thomas Paine denounced George Washington in an open letter as “treacherous in private friendship…and a hypocrite in public life.”  He even wondered aloud whether Washington was “an apostate or an imposter; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.”  Wall Street Journal, June 26/27, 2010

Nice.

We’ll have a walk down memory lane about just how rough things were back then….

Are you stoked that we are still independent???  If you were alive then, would you have:

• supported the revolution or deferred to authority?
• been willing to die for it?
• advocated use of force?
• put your family at risk for it?

Thomas Jefferson made slip in Declaration, Talking Points Memo

And Don Leka, writer and self-described recovering lawyer, on “Our Independent Judiciary and Other Myths.”