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Perhaps this is why, when the Nationalists were cooking up their power grab, patriots like Sam Adams nor Patrick Henry decided to stay home, with Patrick Henry famously stating, "I smell a rat."
"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt." -- Patrick Henry
Perhaps it is. Perhaps it is. On the other hand, people like Henry remind me of the line from RAMBO where the Stallone character is described as a very valuable man in wartime - and fairly useless once the war is over.