American revolutionaries: terrorists? Options

[strice]

during the revolutionary war, americans were labelled as terrorists under the British Terrorism Laws, which stated that any violent insubordination qualified as terrorism. I would argue that they were indeed terrorists of a sort, one example being the boston tea party. They are fighting for their freedom from an imperialistic overseas power and that is exactly what the terrorists of the middle east are doing, except with far less pleasant techniques. What do you bastards say?


i feel like this is going to garner a healthy amount of flames.

[ComradeRed]

"Whenever the legislators attempt to take away or destroy the property of the people, or reduce their liberty under arbitary power, they put themselves at a state of war with the people who are thereby released from any further obligation to obey and left to the common refuge which God has provided for all men against force and fraud."
--John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government

The British Parliament's Navigation Acts, their order to blockade the port of Boston, and the presence of their soldiers on our ground were overt acts of war against the American people, who afterward had the right to defend themselves by force of arms -- much like our military occupation of Iraq is an overt act of war against the Iraqi people, who have the same right to defend themselves by the force of arms. People only have an obligation to obey the government when that said government acts according to the Rule of Law. Arbitrary power can morally be countered with arbitrary power -- just as you have the moral right to shoot an armed robber entering your house.

A terrorist is someone who attacks another country to cause fear and terror there and seeks to destroy the property of others.

Someone trying to protect his OWN property, or get a foreign nation out of his OWN country is not a terrorist -- The Iraqi insurgency, for example.