BONUS JULY 4TH COLUMN! EXCERPTED FROM THE SMASH BESTELLER, 'DEMONIC'

BONUS JULY 4TH COLUMN! EXCERPTED FROM THE SMASH BESTELLER, 'DEMONIC': "BONUS JULY 4TH COLUMN! EXCERPTED FROM THE SMASH BESTELLER, 'DEMONIC'

July 3, 2011

The reason our revolution was the opposite of a directionless, violent mob running wild in the streets is that the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. Even while fighting “the British,” as we now call them, Americans considered themselves British with the rights of Englishmen, who bore the tradition of the Magna Carta.

In fact, one rebel explained that he was fighting the Redcoats to protect his house by saying, “An Englishman’s home is his castle.”

They just wanted to be free of meddling from the Crown. Having been born and raised in the distant and expansive American colonies, Americans objected to the high-handed way King George was dealing with them. They didn’t hate the king—to the contrary, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton dispassionately acknowledged that the English political system was better than most others in the world."