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Op-Ed
The British Brutes
The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767, perfectly depict the audacity of the British government in their control of the colonies. In a poor attempt to disguise yet another example of taxation without representation, Parliament created a tax that would be payable at American ports, and would perhaps effect the population more indirectly. After the New York legislature was suspended in 1767 for failing to cooperate with the equally unacceptable Quartering Act, it became increasingly clear that action had to taken to protect the liberties of the colonists that were being stifled by the British government.
Once British redcoats landed in the colonies, it was inevitable that the situation was going to erupt. However, no one could possibly have predicted that the British would erupt massacre a group of innocent American citizens by firing their guns into the unarmed crowd. This massacre was an absolutely unacceptable demonstration of British authority and all British troops should be immediately removed from the colonies both for the safety of the troops, and the health and well-being of the colonists. We can no longer tolerate this kind of treatment from the British and we must react as a whole before our liberty and our freedom are destroyed like the eleven heroes on the evening of March 5.