Damn straight, made me smile from ear to ear.

And, the penalty if they got caught was quick death.

Not some sternly worded letter saying how what they did was against the Crown.

They straight-up challenged the only world superpower of the age, in writing, pen on paper, actual signatures, pen on paper, and they won!!!

They also won and still lost everything. Some thier families.

http://personal.kent.edu/~ltaylor1/signersofdeclaration.pdf

In the eyes of the loyalist and crown they were traitors

The last sentence hits hard…to quote Nicolas Cage in National Treasure, “people don’t talk that way anymore”

If we don’t stay together, we hang together. I probably misplaced a word or two, but this is a great quote from our founders. They were the 18th century example of WWG1WGA.