RESPONSES TO A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS

Micah Xavier Johnson declared that he was responding to a “long train of abuses and usurpations.” For him, the men in blue represented exactly what the men in red coats represented for the original white Americans.

Micah Xavier Johnson is deemed by the general public to be “deranged.” The general public in England—and many even in the Thirteen Colonies—would have deemed the response to that “long train of abuses and usurpations” inflicted by the King to have been “deranged.” Certainly, in 1916, the general public and the Catholic Church leadership in Ireland deemed the Easter uprising to be the work of “deranged” young hotheads.