{"id":83718,"date":"2022-07-23T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83718"},"modified":"2022-07-23T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:22:11","slug":"83718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83718","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the_biden_administration_and_the_new_intolerable_acts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Biden administration and the new &#8216;Intolerable Acts&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1774, the British imposed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Intolerable-Acts\">Intolerable Acts<\/a>\u00a0on the American colonies.\u00a0\u00a0These acts, also called the Coercive Acts, were punishment for the Americans&#8217; disobedience to the crown, particularly as symbolized by the Boston Tea Party, a rebellion against a (relatively mild) increase in the tax on tea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body\">\n<p>My fellow Americans, we have recently been subjected to a second set of Coercive Acts.\u00a0\u00a0Call them the Intolerable Acts 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>These acts have been imposed on American citizens by their own supposedly representative government, the Biden administration, as punishment for disobedience to the Democrat party and the Deep State, as symbolized by the MAGA movement and the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What are the new Intolerable Acts?\u00a0\u00a0I will list a number of them here for you now, many of them a result of\u00a0<em>executive fiat<\/em>, not unlike those directed at the colonists by King George III.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Rescinding the Keystone Pipeline permit, depriving his country&#8217;s citizens of vast quantities of oil and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"im_t\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ssl-intgr-net\/tags\/7_91_9.gif\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Withdrawing oil and gas leases across the nation and its coastal waters, depriving his country&#8217;s citizens of vast quantities of oil and gas and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Dramatically restricting fracking and preventing all new extraction of oil or gas on federal lands, depriving his country&#8217;s citizens of vast quantities of oil and canceling countless well-paying jobs at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Proposing and fostering other policies guaranteed to dramatically worsen inflation, adversely affecting all Americans lives, especially those with lower incomes and less leverage and fewer opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Refusing to close or even effectively monitor or police our southern border, condemning Americans to suffer significant increases in violent crime, drug overdoses, sex-trafficking, and the proliferation of diseases like COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Treating illegal aliens far better than citizens in fly-over country, in many cases putting them up in hotels and then granting them sanctuary status, driver&#8217;s licenses and free education and health care&#8230;all paid for by taxpayers, including those dolts in fly-over country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Instituting policies guaranteed to worsen crime and supporting groups like Antifa and BLM that routinely burn and loot American cities \u2014 and sometimes kill innocent people and police officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jailing January 6 protesters, nearly all of whom were actually peaceful, in many cases indefinitely and without charging them, because, well, January 6 was, in some ways, the MAGA movement&#8217;s Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Sending the FBI and\/or DOJ after\u00a0<em>individual political opponents<\/em>, raiding their houses in the wee hours with preposterously overwhelming force, dragging them out in their underclothes \u2014 and making a spectacle of them for the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Targeting legal firearm owners and attempting to repeal the God-given right to self-defense, a right more important now than ever before&#8230;due to the very policies of so-called progressives like those in the Biden administration who want to strip you of this inalienable right.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Attempting to repeal the First Amendment and strip all of us of our right to free speech, religion, and assembly.\u00a0\u00a0Labeling speech with which they disagree as &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Telling us that there is no way to definitively ascertain sex at birth&#8230;or any other time, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Attempting to force us to take an experimental gene therapy &#8220;vaccine&#8221; into our bodies, while simultaneously saying everyone should have the right to decide whether or not to kill their unborn babies because it&#8217;s &#8220;your body, and therefore your choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were five original Intolerable Acts.\u00a0\u00a0Those acts were the proximate cause of the First Continental Congress&#8230;and the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>I have listed nearly three times that number of (what<em>\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0effectively be considered to be) &#8220;intolerable Acts&#8221; the American government has imposed on its citizens in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>What say you, Americans?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2022-07\/239457_5_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/picryl.com\/media\/fac-simile-of-the-original-draught-of-the-declaration-of-independence-in-general\">Picryl<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration and the new &#8216;Intolerable Acts&#8217; 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