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I highly doubt they ever recognized English law as legitamate in the first place
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Again, revisionist history on your part. Perhaps this timeline will help:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedst...n/rev-prel.htm
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(the forefathers sure weren't stupid enough to throw the cannonballs from an english battleship overboard)
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March 5, 1770 - The Boston Massacre occurs as a mob harasses British soldiers who then fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three instantly, mortally wounding two others and injuring six. After the incident, the new Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, at the insistence of Sam Adams, withdraws British troops out of Boston to nearby harbor islands. The captain of the British soldiers, Thomas Preston, is then arrested along with eight of his men and charged with murder.
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So I say phooey, this is nothing at all like the Boston tea party.
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So your story has now changes from "civil disobedience is not ok" to "civil disobedience is ok if I agree with the principle."
That's what I thought your position was in the first place, it's just nice to hear you confirm it.
