"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

Two dead at the hands of MAGA's Brownshirts, or perhaps Redcoats, ICE, in one week.

Perhaps red is a good color for the GOP now days.

Sunday, March 5, 1775. The Boston Massacre.

In Boston, a young wigmaker's apprentice began a pestering British sentry about an allegedly unpaid barber bill, although the bill was paid in fact and the officer produced a receipt. Applying a universal rule about harassing people with guns being a bad idea, sort of like at Kent State many years later, a British soldier tired of the event and butted the kid was his musket.

A crowed soon gathered, somebody yelled "Fire", perhaps because Church Bells were ringing which was a fire alarm, and the troops fired their muskets, killing five.  This is also reminiscent of Kent State.

The troops went on to be defended in a trial by John Adams.

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Friday, March 3, 1775. A British ship.

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