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 The Committees of Correspondence This is Samuel “This job has no Medical Plan” Liberty, reporting on the Committees of Correspondence. This is breaking news in this May 1764 issue of the Chronicle. Samuel Adams has helped found these committees, in the hope that they could limit parliament’s powers. The committees got in touch with other and shared info about new British laws. They were also known to gossip. Just joking! His now famous slogan is “No taxation without representation”. That is pretty cool, eh? Well, that wasn’t all. The colonists are boycotting, which, apparently does not mean boys who are cotting. It means they won’t buy British goods. Well, that could be bad… Now, to the next article… Hey? Who put the lame joke there? Anyway… Stamping on the Stamp Act There is a new law, The Stamp Act, which involves a tax paid on paper goods. You have to buy a stamp to put on all paper goods. That is Stupid! Apparently the colonists thought so, too. They refused to pay their dues, Patrick Henry made a speech about it, and the colonists boycott the stamps. Parliament repealed the stamp act. Sissies. The Boston Massacre The parliament then passed the Townshend Acts, which put even more taxes on goods. Yet again, they boycotted, those rebels! (Yawn) Anyway, this caused British Troops to arrive and break up the Massachusetts State legislative committee. This caused anger. That is typical of Americans, getting angry. They started name-calling, the most immature form of argument. So, like big boys, (sarcasm, hint, hint) the British blew the colonists’ heads off. Get off my lawn! They were tried for murder and branded on the hand. As usual, Americans calmed at the occurrence of senseless violence. They were idiots like that. Like all Democrats are all the time. (Just kidding!) Tea for Two? The Tea Act was when the British East India Company brought tea over here. Surprise. So, instead of boycotting the tea, the rebels blocked off Boston harbor, preventing the ships from coming. This ticked off the boat captains. Then, on 12-16-1773, the world’s biggest tea party was held. Except the teapot was Boston Harbor, no one was wearing a dress, and it was all men. Oh, and by “party” I mean “violent rebels throwing tea off a British cargo ship and generally being idiots”. Yet, you knew that, didn’t you? That’s the Boston Tea Party Well, losing tea caused panic in Britain, because everyone knows tea is more valuable than gold by the pound there. So, PM Grenville, cheerful as he is, completely isolated Boston. These were called the Intolerable Acts, because they were intolerable. What a clever name. So, this ticked off the Brits, the Patriots, and, for some reason, the French. Wait, scratch that last one. So, nobody’s happy. Bummer. Including me. This is Samuel “I Hate Redcoats” Liberty. 
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