Is Patrick Henry just a coward for saying, "Give me Liberty or give me death"?

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According to most news stories? he is. Every time some person - insisting they are innocent of an alleged crime - refuses to let the system kill him, preferring instead to check out on his own terms, he's called a coward.

Patrick Henry insisted "suicide by cop (by a tyrant's goons) is better than any so-called "life" under that tyrant.

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Well, John Locke defined tyranny as the exercise of authority without right.

If anyone in authority (cops, prosecutors, judges, etc) overstep the limited bounds of those powers given them by the People and, as a result, convict the wrong person, that is the hand of tyranny.

Worse, yet, if that tyranny results in a promise to take the life of an innocent, what difference is there between that non-guilty person and Patrick Henry, himself?


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