by George McClellan, America Outloud:
What Americans are experiencing today and do not recognize as such is a nearly modern repeat of what happened in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775. Then, British “Regulars” were sent to seize the guns, powder, and cannon of Britain’s American Colonists in an attempt to neutralize a potential rebellion over a tax. It was the “shot heard around the world.” A minority of those American Colonists, well, enough anyway, chaffed under the boot of British demands that the Colonists house and feed the King’s regular army, and an increase in a tea tax was necessary. Some protest demonstrations against that tax had to be made to convey their displeasure. Thereafter, the famous “Boston Tea Party” entered the history books.