The wars purpose was to abolish British direction which exploited the thirteen colonies and imposed provisions that disabled what is now the United States, making the land inferior to excessive taxes and unjust authoritative control. A couple of distinguished formalities of British authority was the imposed taxes, in addition to the anticipated costs for the colonists, and the Quatering Act, which reserved the right for military members of the British regime to enter homes without notice. Taxes were charged in order to cover the costs for British troops stationed in North America.

The economic growth of the colonists was jeopardizing, and land reserved for the Indians stinted the boundaries for development. Feeling threatened by these proposals, colonists acted with disdain, causing British rule to maintain militia along the coast of North America. British troops, under the duress of de jure implements, practiced search and seizure, allowing residents’ private domains to be entered by military enforcers without the warrant of a neutral judge, or any notice provided. Residents were obligated to house and feed these troops which emphasized tensions toward the British and their dehumanizing and unbridled advantage.

What do we see today from our governing officials that we saw long ago from the reign of Brittan? Currently, several laws have been passed that makes for an apparent congruent delineation from what caused the Revolutionary war to our contemporary state of affairs. Raised taxes are not unlike the Stamp and Townshend Acts. The Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act is not unlike the watchful Acts adopted by the royal regime of Brittan. The Homegrown Terrorist Act, and the Cyber Security Enhancement Act take the Big Brother eye even further, encompassing Executive attention on citizens using the Internet and corporations that use the good faith belief as good enough reason to disclose otherwise confidential information.

Search and seizure, without warrant signed by a neutral judge, has become a substantially weakening factor for civil liberties. How can we as the populating residents of this nation defend ourselves from the crippling discrepancies disabling us? Each year, citizens find themselves even more mentally and physically restrained by the governing administration, with no means of defense from the vague and murky guidelines describing new Acts of surveillance.

John Locke, whose philosophies contributed to the Declaration of Independence, stated, “…whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government”. Martin Luther King held similar views. In his letters from Birmingham jail, he wrote, “Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself”. It’s fair to say that we as a people are being oppressed. Tax rates are soaring to account for military troops in the Middle East, and wide margins enable policies weakening our civil rights.

Quite stunning is the resemblance between todays efforts to defend our civil liberties and the efforts taken by out forefathers in the early and mid 1700’s. Protesting the taxed British imports and defending the North American coast against arriving British fleets, the colonists managed to repeal many of the Acts put upon them. Currently, “nonviolent activists attempt to physically block a shipment of Stryker military vehicles, returning from Iraq, from unloading off the Port of Olympia, Washington to be refitted and sent back to the war. Police in riot gear have responded with violence and chemical weapons. Resistance to the war machine continues to grow” (Dobyns, SDS). Daily arrests for the activists only strengthen their resistance, and administrative efforts attempt to block off citizen access to the Port of Olympia.

What could we do as a people to initiate the new revolution? Protesters in Olympia have made notable statements to the police force indicating that their tendency to use chemical weapons on them is is similar to the acts of Saddam Hussein. Contributive retaliation could form in reflection of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense or Ernesto (Che) Guevara de la Serna’s Guerrilla Army. Trained and educated medical physicians and law graduates initiated non-profit medical offices, servicing citizens of low income or no income at all. Military brigades were established to espouse professional protest, and trained reform.

The notable developments of these parties made history, and progressively intervened government intention. The Black Panthers greatly contributed to the achievement of universal recognition for African American rights. Guevara, with his predecessor Fidel Castro, successfully took over Cuba, and implemented a Marxist regime that took homelessness off the streets and the sick into hospitals.

Locke would tell us that is is time for us as a people to rectify our restraining government, and to activate amendment in the reformation of institutions. How can we do this? We must band together as a nation of oppressed, and we must instigate change. In defense against the health care corporations insuring only the affluent and healthy, we must create medical clinics, aiding those who are victims of the insurance segregations demise.

We must create an organized and fully trained militia to defend our civil liberties and our critical need to gain expression. We must initiate physical force to gain recognition, as the police state utilizes physical force. We as a nation may revolutionize our oppression. We as a people can gain a national voice, and only through our unity and consensual objective, we may indite a lasting impression and reform our government.