InOBU, with respect to the Boston Massacre, I don't think the credit for the creation of the United States properly belongs to the thugs who picked a fight with a few scared and outnumbered British soldiers. The US was created by lots of different folks, most of whom were thoughtful, principled and courageous, and some of whom were just troublemakers or opportunists. A few of the latter -- including Sam Adams and Paul Revere -- saw a chance to make a political statement out of a street brawl, so they went for it. Perhaps it served as a call to action for some folks who had been wavering, but at its core it was simply an intentional distortion of what had happened for propaganda value. I don't have a lot of respect for that. It's worth noting that one of our most illustrious "founding fathers" -- John Adams, revolutionary, democratic theorist, and second President of the US -- was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers for their actions that day. Got them acquitted, I might add.

I live just outside Boston, and I can tell you that there is a memorial to the Boston Massacre. It's not the country -- it's just a placque, which only serves to perpetuate the distortion created by a few propagandists over 200 years ago. The country would get along just fine without it, in my opinion.