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Dear Royal Baby: We Americans Apologize for Our Revolution; Please Be Our Absolute Monarch

Jul 23, 2013
Things like freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which seemed like a good idea in 1789, now seem really dangerous to us and we’ve started to agree with King George III about the undesirability of those liberties. Our forebears minded the torture and cruel and unusual punishments imposed by the king. But we have gone back to torturing people.