There was once a Country, founded on Manipulation and fear tactics. This Country, at that time, felt oppressed. Here is the basic scenario:

1. This Country had just been defended in a very expensive war. It was part of another Country quite far away, recently developed, and a conflict had broken out upon the world. In order to defend many things, mostly revolving around this Area's ability to exist, an expensive war was started.
2. The newly developed land had trouble generating the proper income, however a Tax was placed regardless, as a matter of necessity. This tax was approximately 1/4 the Tax of the land Area of Origin was being Taxed, and while slightly excessive was also, from the perspective of the Areia of this Country which paid for the war to protect the new land area, quite small.
3. Several measures were taken to appease the new land area for taxation. The price of the most popular item was dropped. Tea. After the price drop, the Citizens of the new land area vandalized the property of the West India Tea Company to express their frustration in believing they had a better solution to reducing the Taxes.

An organization of Terrorists was at that time formed. These Terrorists used Guerrilla Warfare, Manipulation of the Media, harbouring of Arms through citizens of the Country they rebelled against, and manipulation through deceit to accomplish their methods.

The US Government essentially defines a Terrorist as any group of people who possess a Military Force, capable of war, which has taken actions showing war, which is not backed by any Country. For this reason, I refer to this group as "Terrorists," as the US Government has defined them this way.

The name of this Terrorist Organization was "The Sons and Daughters of Liberty." Their objective was to insight a rebellion for purposes of having their own representatives, rather than the representatives of the Country of Origin under which their land was registered regular law among the Colonies in which they lived.

A great war was waged. During this war, there was one moment where a Soldier of the opposing Army of the Country in which these terrorists lived (consisting of the more remote location of such mentioned Colonies) was told by a young boy that he owed the young boy's Master money for purchased goods, Rope. This Soldier was a General, and had no time to argue with a young boy, and stepped forward to continue.
However, the young boy insisted, blocking the General's path. (At this time, children began employment to learn a trade at the age of 8, and believed himself to be attempting to achieve a work related objective.) The General pushed the boy out of the way. One of the General's personal guard struck the boy in the rear with his Rifle's butt after walking past him, and giving a sharp retort.

The young boy immediately fled to that Colony's local bar, and convinced several highly intoxicated adults that one of the Soldiers had beaten him. Enraged, the drunken men rang what is called the fire bell. In this time period, Houses were built literally right next each other. If one building caught fire, the entire village would burn down.
So when there was a fire, people would ring the fire bell. At this point, everyone in the village, with the exception of the physically handicapped, the extremely elderly, and the very very young children came to the fire bell to save their village from destruction.

An entire mob gathered around the fire bell. In mass confusion, anger, resentment, and hatred gathered by the Colonists, they pursued and pinned in a corner the General and his personal guard. They began throwing rocks, and chunks of ice, screaming, and attempting to terrorize the brave soldiers. It is very much how Iraqis treated American Soldiers in the beginning of the Iraq war.

Nonetheless, the Soldiers held their ground. After over 14 minutes of receiving numerous blows from small projectile objects, a shot rang out from one of the Soldiers. It is unknown to this day if it was a misfire caused from a loose trigger finger, or a rock cascading off the Soldier's Arm. The courts did determine at a later date it was clearly unintentional. Regardless, the shot was fired.

The Soldiers did what they were trained to do. Citizens of these Colonies were hiding weapons, with secret Soldiers and spies everywhere, and thus when a shot was fired, there was no Militant Law against firing back. The Soldiers fired into the crowd.

The Soldiers were taken to Court in the Colonies. After a careful, non-corrupt examination, they were cleared of any and all charges of wrongdoing as they were clearly victims in the scenario of what was simply a misunderstanding caused by a mob of angry drunken people inspiring a populace based on fear and prejudice.

The Sons and Daughters of Liberty controlled the entire press. They wrote an article. This attack on the British Soldiers took place in Boston, Massachusetts, a Colony at that time. The Article was about something called "The Boston Massacre." You would think this article would be about a massacre of over 10 minutes against Soldiers who stood their ground against an assault, opened fire, and were found not guilty. However it was not.

Printing Presses use plates, which are sheets of metal onto which ink is applied, and copied for mass production through the press. Much like a copy machine running off a standard TGA image. Copies of the original plates can be found to this day in Historical Articles. There were two original plates.

In the first plate, there was a very realistic depiction of the Boston Massacre. In this depiction, the Soldiers are being assaulted with screams by an angry mob. The objects thrown are, to the best of my recollection, left out. In the second reprint of these plates on which the final article appeared you see a different picture.
Blood crazed soldiers shoot wildly into a crowd of fleeing victims. Laughing and grinning like demons from hell, enjoying the death and destruction around them, these soldiers are massacring the "victims"... an angry mob of confused Citizens, uninformed of reality in a time of war.

This prompted a Revolution. The Terrorist Group gained more support, arms, and Guerilla Warfare Soldiers to fight the armies of Britain. Bravely, the Armies would walk to the fields of battle to do what was honourable at that time, and participate in war. By the time they arrived, the Guerillas would have picked off half the army in what was considered by the civilized world to be the most despicable, dishonourable, and cruel method of attack.

Later, the Terrorists, The Sons and Daughter of Liberty would take rusty nails and silverware, and fire them out of their muskets. The British soldiers died in agonizing pain, often of infection. This was done, because ammunition was simply being rationed, but the effects were horrific. These "minutemen" Terrorists (According to the US Government) ready to attack "at a minute's notice" became more expensive than the Taxes to pay for the Colonies in the land of America, a subdivision of Britain at that time.

At the end of the day, this war happened for one reason. There was an ocean.
That is correct, the problem was never Taxes. The problem was never Cruelty. The problem was never fear, or disruption, or morals. It was about disagreements and misunderstandings. Britain was very harsh in understanding the American Colonies. From the King's perspective, these "Terrorists" first complained of the Taxes over a war fought to protect these Colonies, which were small. Then upon lowering those Taxes, the company which helped lower them, "The West Indi Trade Company" was vandalized and boycotted, even though this actually lowered, not raised, the price of Tea. This resulted in new Taxes, which caused more Anger from the "Terrorists." The King believed he had shown great patience. When the Terrorists sent a "Peace Treaty" of His "crimes" he was in no way willing to even read it.

You see, the Terrorists realized there was an ocean. While ships had existed for a long time, they until very recently had never traveled across an ocean, only around a land mass. New ships had been developed which traveled through the ocean, not around the edge of the land. This was new technology, and while boats for this were readily available, the travel across the Ocean took many months. Thus, in order to appease the King, the Colonial Representatives of the Rebellion (called the "American Revolution") requested that the people making decisions about their area actually live in their area so they could understand things.

One woman spoke of this Ocean, but nobody would hear her. She was a "Terrorist" of The Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Her idea was not considered, so the war did happen. Oddly that one unimportant person is often never heard in the time of crisis. While her ideas were heard, her input was not. This the King did not understand the Peace Treaty.

War ensued. The King eventually decided that the Colonies had become too expensive. France had supported them, and helped, in fact, to perfect their ideas on Democracy. The act of getting the Colonies to pay back Britain for their protection had become expensive. Additionally, the Colonies had resorted to allying with the people that originally were considered an enemy of Britain, who claimed they would eventually invade and conquer the Colonies. The British citizens were upset with the loss of lives, and unrealistic idea that this would somehow help the Country of Britain receive funding back. Additional problems were also cited. Eventually the war ended, in large part, for financial reasons.

At this point the "Terrorists" claimed Victory. They founded their own Country, calling it "The United States of America." Since most of the "Terrorists" were philosophers and educated men, the Country was founded using Greek Philosophy of Democracy, which was created by Greece a long time ago, with minor input from the French. These ideas were modified to be relevant to the current times. A Constitution was created so that if anyone opposed the ideas on which the Country was founded the Citizens of the Country were allowed, and in fact obligated, to defend these values from anyone, including, and especially the US Government, which was dedicated at that time to the sole act of Defending that Country.

Now that you have a basic understanding of the American Revolution, I should like to point out some things.
1. Unlike what the US Government states according to National Defense, I do not believe the Founding Fathers of our Country are Terrorists.
2. Unlike what people in this Country believe, I do not believe that our brave US Soldiers are any more evil than the British ones were.
3. Unlike what the world says, I do not believe our Government or Country are evil. I believe our Government has corrupt people in it, but is not, in itself corrupt, and I believe our people are ignorant.

But why?
In times of fear people react, yes. There are millions of speeches about this.
And after that fear, people do not want to admit what they have done. There are some very good speeches about this.
But admitted what we are, and what we have done is important. However, when it seems like the whole world is critizising you, it is very hard, whether you are a Revolutionary, or a major leader of an entire Country to calmly sit there, smile, and take any insult coming your way, and then try to defend yourself.

America is good at one thing, and one thing only. War.
America is not, and never has been good at controlling the effects of Politics.
I believe some changes should be made. How should they be made? They should be made by playing a game.
Pretend you are the bad guy.
Insult yourself. Hate yourself. Twist yourself. Make yourself look evil, terrible, horrible, like a villain from a bad comic book.
Now... Look at what people say in a different light. Play on it. Evaluate it. There qaccusations on you seem more real. I don't mean change what you do. I don't mean change why. I mean lie about why you are doing it.
If you do it for for love, say it's for hate. If you do it for Freedom, say it's for power. If you do it for Democracy, say it's for wealth. But say it like you're denying it... Like you're hiding it.
Then listen to what everyone says. They will, for free without charge, tell you all your mistakes, because they want to attack you now. They hate you that much.
Do this in the most perfect possible war. Let all your friends know who you really are. Let all your associates know who you really are. Let anyone who asks and cares to listen know who you really are. And to the rest of the world... Lie.
Then look at yourself. What did you do wrong? It is everything people accused you of.
Now, fix that, and apply it in the real world.