Blog #4 FH

I've stand up, to refute what Patrick Henry is telling all of us. He is clearly trying to deceive us from what we truly need to think of. In his speech he refers to "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interpositions to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament" (Henry). Patrick Henry refers that we "have" done everything that could be done to prevent the war but, he is totally lying to you. Have we tried to live with their rules? Have we tried to live with their taxes? Have we taken into consideration the great nation they are and all that protection that they are trying to give us? The British are actually trying to help us. Even though they are imposing tax on us they are giving us protection with their armies. But why do we respond with such boycott? They are helping us; they are not keeping us as slaves. Are they wiping us as slaves? Are they making us do hard work? No, of course not they are just imposing tax on us, for us to be safe. Patrick Henry also refers to "we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!" (Henry). Fight is not the only way to solve the problem; it will just end up in the death of many people. Patrick Henry, don't you realize that by fighting we could most probably lose the battle. Britain is already a great nation we are not. They have great technological advances, we know it. British are clearly superior than us, so if you can't beat them then join them. Imagine what a better life it would be without that fighting and living with peace with no deaths. The union between us is much better than trying to beat them or separate from them. Imagine us with the British united, wouldn't that be fantastic? All those different kinds of developments that would be lost through war, all those new relationships you could have and remember you were once a British. So those are the reasons why fight is not a solution, fight will just bring the colonists down for nothing, there will be no such independence through fight because we would lose. At the end, Patrick you also state that, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" (Henry). So now tell me, are we actually slaves? Is giving us taxations, just for a better safety is for you that word you recall as slavery? If you call that slavery, tell me what was then what they did to Africans. Accept that we are not being treated as slaves you are just exaggerating. We aren't slaves we are free, we have liberty, we want to prosper but people such as you, Patrick Henry don't let us flourish. The only one who knows when to take your the life is God, you cannot take his role. So we must unite with those of the British, we must learn to live with them for a better nation!