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 I support the Sons of Liberty for using the mob as a politic tactic because they strived for goal, to be free. I support them because the colonists were sick and tired of paying taxes and being controlled by the British. But, more importantly not having the right to vote on the tax. The colonists had to pay a tax on a stamp, imposed by parliament, and it was called the stamp act. In addition, they had to only trade with the British. This aggravated the colonists because they were not allowed to do anything independently, so the colonist finally took a stand. They started not paying the taxes at all because they hated it so much. The colonists were so angry merchants and other colonists hanged a British official in effigy on an elm tree. After a while, the tree where the British official was hanged became a liberty tree where colonists had protest meetings. Soon many colonial towns had liberty trees.

 The colonies did not have a say in being taxed or not, because they had no say in parliament. They were represented with virtual representation. Meaning they did not choose their representative meaning, he could have different opinions than them. In the Magna Carta, it says that a tax shall not be imposed without their consent, but the colonists did not have a say in parliament. The colonist had to pay a tax when they had no choice to reject it so they revolted the British taxes like the Quebec act, and the Townshend acts. They used the mob to get what they wanted all along, freedom. The reason it resulted in mob violence was that they had no other way of getting through to Parliament. They made documents of their feelings such as the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, but it was rejected.

 In conclusion, I support the Sons of Liberty because they used the mob do what is right, to be free. The British thought they were giving colonists freedom but they weren’t. They were taking the colonists freedom away, and the colonist finally took action with creating a mob.