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]

Yes, but the law was unjust.

The American colonies (most of them) started off as self-governing. They had their own legislatures, etc. The British only imposed direct rule towards the middle of the 1700s.

Moreover, the social contract demands that all people be treated equally. The American colonists did not enjoy the rights that were given to many of the British under their Bill of Rights established in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution.

As such, they had no obligation to pay taxes, and thus the right to resist by force of arms if necessary.


If American soldiers marched into Denver and suspended the Colorado state legislature and still demanded that Colorado abide by fedearl law and pay federal taxes, then the people of Colorado would be justified in revolting.