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To: bentway who wrote (603957)	3/16/2011 11:38:14 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation of 1576127

As far as the revolutionaries/Patriots They supported liberty, where against attempts to expand government control, esp. from distant higher level governments rather than the colony/state and local level, they protested and opposed taxes, they supported the right to keep and bear arms (and did so quite actively). Doesn't seem much like the modern liberal,Democrat, and/or progressive. They thought resistance to the Crown—the legitimate government—was morally wrong. That seems like a lot of the big government liberals here, at least if the Democrats are in power. Neither the loyalists/tories nor the revolutionaries/patriots would have supported the level of taxes and regulation we have now, so I suppose both sides should be considered libertarian... You can draw all sorts of parallels from either side of a conflict over 230 years ago, to all sorts of groups today, but the difference are going to be far larger than the similarities in most cases.

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