On Sunday, August 2, 2009 Col. Manly Rash addressed a gathering of the Staten Island TEA Party at the Conference House Park - site of the historic Billopp House, where Ben Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge met with Lord Howe, who entreated them to give up the fight against the Crown. They politely told him to stick it. In his speech to a gathering of several hundred patriots, Col. Rash encourages them to continue our fight against the tyranny of liberal Statists who seek to destroy ...