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Eumie Rosiclair October 26, 2010 Were the Sons of Liberty Justified or Not

Some may argue that the Sons of Liberty were justified in using the mob as a political tacit to let their voices be heard. But I however believe that it was unjustified and wrong for them use it like they did. The Sons of Liberty’s intentions were good the way they went about it was wrong however. The Sons of Liberty were trying to get the stamp act abolished an act that many of the colonists hated and didn’t want to pay for. At first they would just burn effigies (figures) of the people that had played a part in Stamp Act. For example Andrew Oliver who was supposed to be the distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts he was one of the figures that they hung on a tree and burned.

The Sons of Liberty took it to another level as the Stamp Act began to affect everyone. Taxes were on paper, playing cards, licenses, documents and more. There were sons of Liberty in almost every colony. They made the lives of Stamp distributors a living hell they were trying to make them resign so that they wouldn’t have to pay any taxes on their paper goods. As a result of that there weren’t enough tax distributors because the Sons of Liberty did things to intimidate them into resigning from their jobs. Then people began using the Sons of Liberty for their own use. For instance to get the revenge on people and did things in the name of the Sons of Liberty.

Scaring people away from jobs that feed their families, keep a roof over their head and pay taxes is completely wrong and unjustified. Just to have their voices heard when there are other methods that could work much more affectively rather than intimidating people who are just doing their jobs. The Sons of Liberty were unjustified because the tax distributors had just about the amount of say they did which was none. What they did was affective in avoiding the Stamp Act but was also wrong theyway they went about doing so.



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