Dissent
grew as spokesmen like Patrick
Henry declared that the king
had negated the original pact
between Britain and the colonies.
Another lawyer, James Otis,
when so far as to challenge
the English Parliament’s
authorization of general search
warrants (“writs of assistance”)
to find colonial smugglers of
slaves.
The Great War for the Empire,
as the Seven Years’ War
was called, brought to mind
the divergence of opinions between
Great Britain and its American
colonies. As a result, many
colonials no longer felt a need
for British military power to
protect them. The British realized
the consequence of the war in
North America by identifying
six problems: (1) a colonial
disorganized command structure,
(2) inefficient administration,
(3) lax enforcement of trade
regulations, (4) wide resistance
to taxation, (5) mistrust between
colonies, and (6) extreme theoretical
divisions in colonial politics.
We are now living during the
third great Pluto galactic center
alignment since the inception
of our nation. The two previous
alignments have several common
denominators that aptly fit
many of today’s circumstances.
These “trends” are
the meaning to this grand alignment.
The
first theme is invasion. The
voyages of discovery during
the 1500s were in fact based
on the expansion of wealth and
trade. The French and Indian
War and the greater Seven Years’
War of which it was a part involved
an expansion of territory for
the British and colonials. Both
“invasions” were
resource driven, just as our
conquest of Iraq is a resource
war over the free flow of oil.
The
second theme is resource acquisition
and protection. Land, and the
resources it holds, must be
held by arms and braced with
laws. The early American settlements
fought dearly to maintain their
foothold on the New Continent.
They had their Christian beliefs
and British law to support the
villages and towns that sprang
up around forts.