If you watched Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" back in y2k, at the outset, while a SC House member, and asked by his friends to vote "yay" on the levy to raise war funds and join other states in the effort, he asked outloud to the delegation: "Why should I give such sacrifice to sever ties with one tyrant 3,000 miles away, just to become subject to 3,000 tyrants, one mile away?" Probably THE most important line in the whole movie............