Historians say that a dispute over a British soldier’s unpaid barber bill led to the first fatal confrontation with the ‘foreign’ troops in Boston on March 5, 1770. The row killed five Americans escalating Colonial hostilities against England.
Today, it is ironic that local authorities with unconstitutional orders to close businesses due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Flu, threatened and cited Marysville, CA barber Randy Mitchell, owner of four Upper Cuts shops. His crime was refusing to bow to Emperor Lard Hair to instead support his family.
Mitchell was right and the authorities were wrong. Upper Cuts remains open with a citation, a fine of $1,000 and threats from the State Cosmetology Board and the local District Attorney.
Police say they were “just following orders” of Yuba-Sutter Counties Officer Dr. Ratched to close businesses, wear a muzzle and enforce ‘socialist’ distancing, all of which make people ill and ruin families financially. Police take an oath to defend the Constitution and are not required to enforce unlawful orders.
By obeying the unconstitutional decrees of Governor Lard Hair citizens rendered themselves slaves and subjects, agreeing with tyrants that rights come from government rather than God. The Constitution protects the physical and intellectual properties of citizens from being taken without due process.
(14th Amendment - No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.)
In fact, the legislature never passed a law, not even an unconstitutional one to dupe the citizenry out of their freedom. It was simply taken by an order.
Government routinely violates laws with impunity trampling the rights of the people. Yuba County’s illegal Measure K sales tax increase, later invalidated in Superior Court, and now on appeal by the county is a local example of tyrannical abuse of power removing $10,000 each day from the citizens until the case is settled.
The problem with the CCP Flu orders is that the government snookered the citizens with fear (We’re all going to die.) because it had no authority to coerce people without due process. But citizens enslaved themselves voluntarily due to their ignorance and being groomed by their socialist teachers and politicians. Ignorant Americans don’t know what they don’t know.
On March 5, 1770, Boston was a town of around 16,000 occupied by 2,000-4,000 British troops. There was tension between soldiers and residents. (Remember that California Governor Lard Hair threatened his subjects with martial law should they not comply with his unlawful orders.) On that day 250 years ago a young lad began complaining that a British officer failed to pay his barber bill. (The officer denied the accusation.) When a British sentry started harassing the boy, a crowd of colonists gathered at Boston's Dock Square and began taunting the officer in return.
British reinforcements arrived. Tempers flared. The colonists began tossing snowballs, pebbles, and wood at the soldiers. Suddenly, there were gunshots. Six colonists were wounded, and another five killed.
Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, sailor and patriot was the first killed with two bullets to the chest. Some say Attucks was the leading protester that day.
The irony is that a black / Native American familiar with the misery of slavery, and then being free, became the first to die in the fight for independence from Great Britain. Maybe his former suffering gave him a greater appreciation of being unshackled.
Did anyone remember Attucks this past Memorial Day?
Attucks, along with the four other victims—Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr—were buried at Boston's Granary Burying Ground. The funeral procession attracted up to 10,000 people. It was recorded that "A greater number of persons assembled on this occasion, than ever before gathered on this continent for a similar purpose."
Three weeks after the massacre, Paul Revere made and distributed a print depicting the confrontation. Today, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History calls the illustration "Probably the most effective piece of war propaganda in American history."
This is again a time of resistance in America. We know the tyrants. Who will the next Attucks, Gray, Caldwell, Maverick and Carr’s be?
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