No shit? Are you kidding me? Pull the other one!
Of course it was illegal and treasonable. And the signers were completely aware of what they were doing when they put their signatures on it. That’s what that whole “pledg[ing] their lives and sacred honors” business down there at the bottom is about.
But then they went out and kicked your Imperial ass and sent you home with your tail between your legs. This is called “ratification on the battlefield”.
Maybe if you Brit assholes had reigned* in your Parliament sooner, none of the unpleasantness would have been necessary. To be entirely truthful, I for one am glad you didn’t.
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* Did you get that unconscious pun? I didn’t, until I’d read it about four times. Not sure what I was thinking there. 🙂
* Did you get that unconscious pun? I didn’t, until I’d read it about four times. Not sure what I was thinking there. 🙂
Ben Franklin said it best, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Yep.
If you’re going to break the law in spectacular fashion, and you fail (or get caught) in spectacular fashion, you should have the dignity to face the consequences in spectacular fashion. The “But but but I’m a rebel! Why doesn’t everybody love meeeeeeee?” types really get under my skin. (Which is why, ideology aside, Occupy Wall Street will never, ever, ever be on par with the Founding Fathers.)
The Founding Fathers would have had no trouble understanding the concept of “go big or go home.”
That’s just the way they rolled.
This is what passes for scholarship these days. I think your average middle school kids could recognize the DoI was illegal and treasonous.