Strip away the rhetoric and what really happened was that the 'rich rednecks' used the excuse of not wanting to pay 2c on the dollar tax to whip up fury so they could expropriate the investments of several generations of their fellow British countrymen. When South American dictators did that more recently, the USA squealed like a stuck pig and went on about Communism and Nationalisation..

A year after refusing to pay that small tax, which went to their own defence from the French, those stupid rednecks were paying three times as much in 'charter fees' to the Royal Navy to defend them from.... the French.

Now everyone pays 30c tax, plus state taxes and city taxes. Dull buggers.

They got rid of a King and made a President. The Queen today is an unelected hereditary 'President' who stays out of politics altogether and is admired by all worldwide. The President is an elected Monarch who governs by personal whim and is reviled by most of the world including half of those he Rules with secret services, armed police and a tax schedule the envy of the Kremlin.

Americans should be in mourning on July 4th.