Google Wave

It's been a looong time since I last posted a blog. That's because I have had nothing to write about. In fact, this blog has no significance to it. To go further, this blog has some significance, but not that much since I'm piggy backing on my friend's blog. Now Here's my main point. Google Waves. currently, it is not out. But, thy have released videos about it. There is a 80 minute video, as well as a 8-9 minute video. Google Wave is described as an email, which it is. But it has more features. Maybe you send an email to a group of people. If someone wants to comment on it, they go to the part they want to comment on, and write something. Instead of forwarding the email back to everyone and making a change in the forward, you are just writing on the original email. When the sender or other people see it, it will say who wrote what on the "wave". So it can be used as a blog. It can also be on a blog. Right from your wave account, you can post it on a blog, or twitter. On the wave, you can place a google map picture, showing where a party might be, etc... . You can also read a wave in time order. This means in order of the different changes made to the wave. Lastly, during chat, you can talk in different languages. This is because of "robots". One person can write in french, which will translate to say, spanish for the other person, and french back. Cool, huh.

The Revolutionary Times Newspaper

Contents

Contents

Interview with Thomas PAine
During my interview with Mr.Paine at his farm in N.Y. , I asked him to tell me a little about himself. He was born in 1737 in Thetford, Norfolk, England. In 1774 he moved to The New World on recommendation from Benjamin Franklin.Continued on Page 2

Editorial : Letter from loyalist

Why did I have to be transferred to a post in the colonies? Whenever I walk through the streets of Boston, all I hear are insults instead of the compliments I should be receiving for protecting my country. Continued on Page 3

letter From patriot
Living in the colonies is no better than Britain. It’s worse. Coming to the colonies was supposed to give us a better life. It was wrong, it was all wrong. Continued on Page 5

International news
Thankfully, we are now free from Britain’s rule. With the help of France, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, and other European countries, we were able to defeat and receive independence from Britain. Continued on Page 7

A letter from a Patriot

Revolutionary Times
P. O. Box 129012
Boston, Massachusetts
Patriot letter

Living in the colonies is no better than Britain. It’s worse. Coming to the colonies was supposed to give us a better life. It was wrong, it was all wrong. There is hardly any food . The Redcoats closed up the harbor to stop any goods from coming in. Even if we manage to get hold of some bread those blasted lobsterbacks burst in, looking for something to eat. They came a week ago looking for wood. Took away anything they saw. Even took my Dad’s compass. He had taken care of it since he was a child. He received it from my grandfather. All the wood from my house was taken away. The wood from the chairs, the doors, and the whole village that I had built. I try to shove them away whenever they come. I joined the army a month ago thinking it might earn me some money . It didn’t work out . I hardly get paid $10 ‘dollars’ a day. Washington thought that the new dollars would help him recruit soldiers to join the army. Everybody wants some new dollars now. They’re useless. They only make the inflation in the colonies go up. There is no point in fighting. It only makes those British scums more mad. Even if we get free, Britain isn’t going to trade with us. Why would they? Even William Pitt, who believes in our Independence wouldn’t be able to make them trade. He lost his spot in the Parliament. Those British have lost their minds.
This all wouldn’t have happened if they let us protect ourselves. First of all, they came here and start recruiting people to fight with them during the French and Indian war .We could have fought ourselves. Then, when we started moving for more land, they tell us that we can’t move there. We fought for the land. We have every right to settle down there. Why should the British stop us? It’s our land and our choice . We can choose where we want to go. The British don’t need to tell us what to do. I think the British are just trying to take charge.
That’s what the Declaration of Independence stated to them. The Declaration of Independence states that the colonies were big enough to separate from the mother country. It helps in stating our position in the war. It is a fair manuscript that defends the colonists thoughts on the placement of taxes on tea and other products. I can’t believe the King(s) put taxes on products.
King George has never made a just decision in his life. He is stuck on doing what his great-grandfather and grandfather didn’t do. He believes that they ruined have Britain by giving Parliament power. His parliament itself has ruined Britain. Was it not during his rule that the stamp act and all those other taxes were placed on goods going to the colonies. The parliament is an unjust congress. The king can pick whoever he wants to be in the parliament. They don’t have to be fair. Why won’t they just give us freedom ?
Sincerely,

Paul Demenfin

A letter from a loyalist

May 26, 1774
William Petty
56498 Brigham Wy.
London,Britain

Why did I have to be transferred to a post in the colonies? Whenever I walk through the streets of Boston, all I hear are insults instead of the compliments I should be receiving for protecting my country. Leading a life in the colonies is hard especially if you’re a British soldier. The tavern, I live in is small and cramped. Everyone around me hates me. Everyday I have to stand through fights and raid houses for food. It isn’t easy. We have to break doors open and pull them out of the doorway. It is so very cold over here. We hardly collect enough firewood to last a day. I’m not getting paid enough for going through all of this. All I get is five pounds a month. I know I should be ashamed of saying this but, unlike all the other soldiers, I’ve not been paying the 2 pound tax to the parliament. The only reason I’m here is because of the debt that Britain has accumulated. They transferred me so that I can help keep order in the colonies. Those colonists won’t pay the 1 cent tariff on British Goods. After all, we were protecting them. They can hardly handle a gun and how many colonists are there? Some 300 men with no army expertise versus 3000 French men and countless numbers of Indians. They had no chance. We came to help them. We saved their lives. Would you rather lose your house or would you pay a 1 cent tax ? Even if some of them could handle a gun, they would be no match for a whole army. If they could have fought the French men, we would be compliments from the King. The colonists are part of Britain and it is our job to protect them. We have every right to protect them and tax them. Why can’t they just pay! It’s a mere 1 cent. Now they’ve created a new kind of money. They had the nerve to create this manuscript they call “The Declaration of independence”. What a stupid name . It states that these colonists deserve independence from Britain because they’re big enough to rule and protect themselves. What a lie. They wouldn’t be able to protect themselves even if they had a 1000 men. But this Declaration of Independence, it disgraces the name of King George the III. King George the III is a great leader and those colonists respect him as if he is a pest. A king leads you and he provides justice. He should be an idol to Britishers and colonists. But no, the colonist won’t understand that the King makes laws to help them. If he doesn’t make a law , the parliament does. He has picked trusted men like the Earl of Bute to help rule the country. They have passed the stamp act for the colonists own good. The King is fair and the colonists abuse him. Will they ever learn?

Sincerely
Sir William Percy Wyndham

International News

Thankfully, we are now free from Britain’s rule. With the help of France, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, and other European countries, we were able to defeat and receive independence from Britain. All of our allies contributed to our freedom.
Our ambassadors were able to convince European countries to come and help us patriots fight, the British . Once persuaded that supporting the patriots was the right thing to do, our comrades sent us money, troops, and supplies. A German soldier named Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben trained our soldiers at Valley Forge. The next spring, when American troops moved out of Valley Forge, they came out as a new army, strong and experienced. Another soldier named Tadeusz Kościuszko helped build defenses to stop the British.

France in particular gave us the most help. They had been helping us pay for the war ever since the French and Indian War. They had been smuggling food to Boston as well after the British closed the Harbor down. They increased there help and sent us troops, guns, gunpowder and even musket balls after our victory at the Battle of Saratoga. The French also helped us in persuading Spain and Netherlands to help us gain independence. A French soldier named Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de la Fayette attacked the British with his troops at several battles, including the battle of Yorktown.

At the end of the war, Britain has signed the Treaty of Paris with us, the United States. Our leaders were able to persuade the British to grant a vast tracts of land from the Atlantic ocean to the east of Mississippi River.

We are now an independent nation, the United States. We now live free and protect ourselves and our land.

An Interview with Thomas Paine

During my interview with Mr.Paine at his farm in N.Y. , I asked him to tell me a little about himself. He was born in 1737 in Thetford, Norfolk, England. In 1774 he moved to The New World on recommendation from Benjamin Franklin. With his writings (including the widely read pamphlet Common Sense) he convinced many Americans that the colonies no longer needed the British to protect and rule them. He wrote many pamphlets about the revolution and then turned to writing about the French Revolution. Along with the profession of writing he owned a farm in New Rochelle .N.Y. and was an inventor of some very interesting creations.
I asked him a few questions about his life and his involvement in the American revolution.

Journalist Rustus: What influenced you to write and express your feelings and thoughts about the Revolutionary War?

Paine: I first started to develop views on justice as a child when I heard a mob jeering and attacking people who had been punished. My Quaker father had an impact on my perspective of being just and lawful. My thoughts on the American Revolution were influenced mainly by the French writer Voltaire, the British philosopher John Locke, The Religious Society of Friends (a Quaker organization), and the French philosopher Charles de Secondat Montesquieu.

Journalist Rustus: Why did you write about the revolution(s) when you knew you might have been arrested?

Paine: I knew I might have been arrested or even executed for my writings, but accepted the fact and continued to write. It was only fair that the Americans, and the French should receive freedom and/or justice. I was arrested for my thoughts on the revolutions, and put into prison. I had a narrow escape. A guard had been marking the cell doors of those who were to killed with chalk and didn’t notice that my door was open. When the officers came to take the men who were to be terminated, my chalk mark was hidden from them. Luckily, I survived the rest of my imprisonment and was set free.

Journalist Rustus: What were your inventions?

Paine: I had received a patent in England to build a single span bridge in London. I also developed a smokeless candle - It was one of my favorite inventions. But the work I’m most proud of is the steam engines that I worked on. They weren’t very successful, but the sheer idea was ingenious. Steam engines weren’t used until the 1800s. Thomas Edison used some of my ideas to create widely used products like the light bulb .

Journalist Rustus: How many books/pamphlets did you write? What were they about?

Paine: I wrote 6 manuscripts: Common Sense ( I intended for it to be Plain Truth), The American Crisis (a set of 16 pamphlets), The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, and Letter to Washington. Common Sense was a pamphlet stating that the Americans were strong enough to rule themselves. The American Crisis was also about the American Revolution reinforcing the American revolution.
The Rights of Man was a book that told people how to be just and find happiness in being fair. Later, I wrote Age of Reason for the French while in prison. I also wrote Agrarian Justice for the French revolution. My last piece of writing was Letter to Washington. I wrote to Washington criticizing his choice of government. He chose a federal government for the new states. He let each state create their own laws and have one person rule over them for a time period of four years. The states would have a common army ,but they would rule themselves with help from their leader and the congress .

Journalist Rustus: What was your greatest achievement?

Paine: I felt that Common Sense was my greatest achievement because it was the most powerful pamphlet I wrote. The other manuscripts I wrote did well but didn’t deliver their purpose as well as Common Sense. Common Sense delivered my opinion as I wanted and persuaded many people to rule in favor of the patriots. Common Sense inspired and influenced many people like Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

Journalist Rustus: If you stayed back in Britain, Would you still write for the Americans’ freedom?

Paine: Of course I would. The colonists deserved to receive independence from Britain. They were mature enough to rule over themselves. They could have their own government while Britain provided currency and had their companies produce goods They could have plants in the colonies and it would still be Britain. Britain had no need to tax colonists. The least they could do would be to have a representative in the parliament. Even if I was still in Britain, I would agree with the Patriots. Just because the rest of the country is fighting against the Americans doesn’t mean I should submit to the injustice that was happening. I sided on the side of the French revolution that was fair and honest. It’s simple. The British were being unjust and needed to change to prepare to lose America.

Journalist Rustus: What were your thoughts on Napoleon?

Paine: When I first had a meeting with him, I admired him, because he claimed that every night he slept with a copy of The Rights of Man underneath his pillow. But my admiration for Napoleon soon turned to condemnation as I saw Napoleon become a dictator. I called him “the completest charlatan that ever existed.”

Journalist Rustus: What did you do with the money that you earned from selling your books?

Paine: I decided to donate my profits to the continental army . I gave them some winter clothes and mittens to lighten their spirits during the harsh winters that they braved. I had no use for the money anyways,though I did keep some for myself to help with the farm.

Journalist Rustus: What did you did before you came to America?

Paine: When I was thirteen, I became an apprentice to my father as a corset maker. Unfortunately, my father found me unworthy of being a master corset-maker.. Towards the end of my teen years, I enlisted as a privateer. Shortly after, I left the job to become a master corset-maker. In 1761 I became a special member of the Thetford council.. Then in 1762 I became an excise officer in Grantham, Lincolnshire . I was transfered to a job where I inspected foreign goods, but Found it to be a bore. I wrote to the Board of excise to be reinstated. While waiting for a reply from the board, I became a stay-maker, a servant, and an ordained minister and preacher of church. While at my post as an excise officer , I was assigned to a post in Grampound and was then asked to be moved to a spot for a schoolteacher. After teaching for a year,I returned to my spot as an excise officer. I wrote a book called The case of the officers of excise. Then I moved to the Colonies and it all changed.

Journalist Rustus: Did you ever get sick ?

Paine: I did fall ill once when I was coming to America. The water on the ship that came here was so infected with germs that five people died of typhoid fever on the way. It took Benjamin Franklin’s physician six weeks to get me better.

Journalist Rustus: Where did you go on your Trips?

Thomas Paine: I moved many times in England before I came to the colonies. When I came To the new world, I went to New Rochelle,N.Y. where I stayed till I went back to England. From there I journeyed to France and finally came back to America in 1802.
JournalistRustus : And you stayed here in New Rochelle since?

Paine: My house was here in New Rochelle, so when I came back from France, I went back to living on my farm. I have never moved since.

Thomas Paine died on June, 8 1809 in Greenwich Village, New York City, N.y. before we could publish this edition. He died of poverty. Mr.Paine was a great writer and influenced many. So when you think of the forefathers of the Revolution, you can think of him.