“Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? …Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
A New Appeal
Our design for this shirt originates from the ‘Pine Tree Flag’ which we have all come to know and love. Flown as a naval insignia in the Revolutionary War, its bold statement ‘An Appeal to Heaven’ led divine credence to the Colonial cause. The Crown had ignored their pleas and thus they appealed to a higher authority.
The Pine tree was already in use as a Colonial symbol of resistance at the outbreak of war. As early as 1691 the crown had begun marking the best pine trees with a broadhead arrow to reserve them for Royal Navy masts. Two years prior to the Boston Tea Party, New Hampshire mill owners held the ‘Pine Tree Riot’ in which they brutally beat a sheriff and his deputy for passing fines on locals possessing broadhead stamped trees.
The particular phrase ‘Appeal to Heaven’ was chosen from John Lockes ‘Second Treatise on Civil Government’ where he describes The Right of Revolution and decries the divine rule of kings.
“And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.”
For our design and call for a New Appeal we paraphrased Lockes closing words “Just cause for a New Appeal.” We also felt it important to include the broadhead arrow stamp as a reminder for how much the current authority deigns to control and posses us. For our most notable change we went with our new National Tree, the majestic oak.
Some more behind the scenes of the data center playbook.
* "American" citizen starts a crypto mining LLC in a rural community. Very small footprint, small enough to not trigger any disclosure requirements.
* establishes the company hq in the county to be "local"
* wait a couple years, amend the existing LLC to now include data center operation
* buy land locally and build data center with PE funding
* sell LLC to china proxy
All legal, on paper it's an American with an American company putting in a data center doing it the "right way" and not "china buying land and building data centers" as politicians like to claim they've stopped.
Private Equity tech bros are doing this on behalf of and knowingly for Chinese acquisition and they stand to profit billions off the destruction of your community.
Happy hunting gentlemen.