Should we just give the 13 American Colonial states back to the British Royal Family?

[whistle]

[Doctor Cynic]

1. Prince Charles of Virginia...

[whistle]

13. Is that his official title?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I really don't think they'd want them!

[napi21]

3. No. I think we should let the South becoe the confederacy, and

let them have their own "Southern Union". The South doesn't want to be part of the US, so why are we forceing it? The western States can make up their own mind who they want to join. That way, all this pro-life, anti civil rights, RW Pugs will have their own territory to live in and be HAPPY! And the rest of us can be HAPPY without them!

I'm sorry, but I now live in the south, and I hate that they've never really gotten over the damn civil war! I'll move tomorrow if we can just have the darn split and get over all this crap!

[CC]

4. If it got us away from * and the repuke rule it

might be tempting. Couldn't this offer of come about 7 years ago?

[aquart]

5. Would we get British healthcare?

Because the Union Jack is not an ugly flag.

[whistle]

14. I would not think so, they have not installed that in any of their other colonies

[Wizard777]

6. As a Marylander I have to say, HELL NO WE WON'T GO!

[whistle]

10. Good for you!

:applause:

I am hoping to hear from residents who live in or are from the states which were part of the original 13 colonies to hear just how willing they were to preserve the Union and keep the U.S. Constitution intact. Thanks

[melody]

7. Our country is our only heritage.

I consider it and its roots precious. My family died to bring it into being.

Besides the right-wing in British government are in league with the Bush family.

[whistle]

12. Thank you, I could not agree more!

:applause:

[TheWatcher]

8. The British have more of a Police State than we do.

If you think you're under surveillance now, you'd be in for a real eye-opener.

[whistle]

15. Yes indeed they do! And also a very distinct class structure

[dddem]

9. As a Massachusetts resident, I must respectfully decline the invitation.

I like my coffee way too much, and I'm too old to switch to tea. Plus they have this wierd accent. Not like me. Sorry.

[whistle]

11. Great!

:applause:

[Stinky The Clown]

16. I'm okay with that

Health care for all, a generally liberal population, and a government that that celebrates actual, in your face, meaningful debate is hunky dory with me.

[supernova]

17. She doesn't want us Tarheels. NC History: Halifax Resolves

:D

We are loyal to the concept of America. We have fought tooth and nail, and sometimes wrongly, for it.

Here is the first formal call for independence April 12, 1776:

Halifax Resolves

The Select Committee taking into Consideration the usurpations
and violences attempted and committed by the King and Parlia-
ment of Britain against America, and the further Measures to be
taken for frustrating the same, and for the better defence of this
province reported as follows, to wit,

It appears to your Committee that pursuant to the Plan con-
certed by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the King
and Parliament of Great Britain have usurped a Power over the
Persons and Properties of the People unlimited and uncontrouled
and disregarding their humble Petitions for Peace, Liberty and
safety, have made divers Legislative Acts, denouncing War
Famine and every Species of Calamity daily employed in destroying
the People and committing the most horrid devastations on
the Country. That Governors in different Colonies have declared
Protection to Slaves who should imbrue their Hands in the Blood
of their Masters. That the Ships belonging to America are declared
prizes of War and many of them have been violently seized and
confiscated in consequence of which multitudes of the people
have been destroyed or from easy Circumstances reduced to the
most Lamentable distress.

And whereas the moderation hitherto manifested by the United
Colonies and their sincere desire to be reconciled to the mother
Country on Constitutional Principles, have procured no mitigation
of the aforesaid Wrongs and usurpations and no hopes remain of
obtaining redress by those Means alone which have been hitherto
tried, Your Committee are of Opinion that the house should enter
into the following Resolve, to wit


Resolved that the delegates for this Colony in the Continental
Congress be impowered to concur with the other delegates of the
other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign
Alliances, resolving to this Colony the Sole, and Exclusive right
of forming a Constitution and Laws for this Colony, and of
appointing delegates from time to time (under the direction of a
general Representation thereof to meet the delegates of the other
Colonies for such purposes as shall be hereafter pointed out.

http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM#Early%20History

[supernova]

18. NC History Take 2: Edenton Tea Party

You might get a kick out of this:

"The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. Together they formed an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against “taxation without representation.”

In response to the Tea Act of 1773, the Provincial Deputies of North Carolina resolved to boycott all British tea and cloth received after September 10, 1774. The women of Edenton signed an agreement saying they were “determined to give memorable proof of their patriotism” and could not be “indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country . . . it is a duty that we owe, not only to our near and dear connections . . . but to ourselves.”

<<snip>>

"News of the Edenton Tea Party quickly reached Britain. During the 1770s, political resistance was common. But an organized women’s movement was not. So, the Edenton Tea Party shocked the Western world. From England, in January 1775, Arthur Iredell wrote his brother, James Iredell, describing England’s reaction to the Edenton Tea Party. According to Arthur Iredell, the incident was not taken seriously because it was led by women. He sarcastically remarked, “The only security on our side … is the probability that there are but few places in America which possess so much female artillery as Edenton.” The Edenton women were also satirized in a political cartoon published in London in March 1775. Even though the Edenton Tea Party was ridiculed in England, it was praised in the colonies. The women of Edenton represented American frustrations with English monarchical rule and the need for American separation and independence."

http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/50/entry

And here's our great Patriot (TM) Penelope Barker:

[bdamomma]

19. no, I don't think they would want us back, they still own

territories though.