The Lies of the American Revolution

Must reading on the 4th of July:

As anyone who's actually read up on him can tell you, George III was a devout Christian, an unswervingly faithful husband, a fervent patriot, a gentleman, and a painfully conscientious ruler who meant well and did his honest best. His insanity was due to an unfortunate blood disease called porphyria. Who among the pack of knaves, villains and – at best – mediocrities who have governed us for most of the past century is worthy to touch the hem of Good King George's coronation robe? FDR? JFK? LBJ? Nixon? Clinton? Bush I? Bush II? [Obama? Trump?] Oh please!
More to the point, by every measure, our government is more tyrannical towards Americans than King George's at its worst.
Granted, the British did some harsh stuff. They send regiments to Boston, closed the port, and quartered soldiers in colonists' homes. But only after repeated attempts to conciliate the colonies had gotten them nowhere and had prompted only more defiance. There is no comparison, absolutely none, between the final British crackdown and what's happening in "free" America.
The Bostonians asked for what they got. We didn't.

Did King George III Deserve To Be Overthrown? - LewRockwell

All told, it remains doubtful that the majority of the inhabitants of the American colonies actually benefited from the Revolution. Surely the 20% who were Black slaves (and largely remained so until 1865) or the20% Native Americans destined for displacement if not outright extermination, hardly benefited from the severance of their connection with their potential or actual imperial protectors. Elsewhere, approximately 100,000 Loyalist refugees fled the country during and immediately after the war — a higher percentage than later fled from either the French Revolution of 1789 or from the Russian Revolution of1917. Finally, a good number of American colonists remained scrupulously neutral but still suffered the adverse effects from an eight-year struggle having been waged on their soil.

Tricked on the Fourth of July Gary North

Jefferson wrote these words in the Declaration of Independence:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

I can think of no more misleading political assessment uttered by any leader in the history of the United States. No words having such great impact historically in this nation were less true. No political bogeymen invoked by any political sect as “the liar of the century” ever said anything as verifiably false as these words.

I do not celebrate the fourth of July. This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school. It was on colonial taxation in the British North American colonies in 1775. Not counting local taxation, I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1% of national income. It may have been as high as 2.5% in the southern colonies.

I will say it, loud and clear: the freest society on earth in 1775 was British North America, with the exception of the slave system. Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom.

But Americans got out their muskets and killed thousands of Christians from Britain, as well as many of their own neighbors who were "loyalists." The American Revolution was clearly contrary to the teachings of the Bible.

Today the United States is the most violent and unChristian nation on earth.