Why did the colonist resent the british?

No it isn't and it needs urgent review and overhaul. Urgent as in URGENT. When I was a kid, 60+ years ago, we had justifiable pride in British Justice - and respect for law-makers and law-enforcers.

But now - along with Politicians - Judges, Lawyers and Police are held in low regard, embarrassingly so. There is tension between the Judiciary and Parliament - the latter claiming judges all too often thwart the will of the people and the intentions of Parliament. Eg - too 'liberal' interpretations of edicts from Brussels and too lenient and inconsistent sentencing.

Judges will argue too many badly written laws are rushed through - eg the Dangerous Dogs Act, etc. A justifiably demoralised Police force - wrongly accused of being 'institutionally racist' and hide-bound with targets and red-tape all too often find the legal processes too slanted in favour of criminals and even when cases come to court minor technicalities override the spirit of the law - and commonsense. Little wonder police often can't be bothered to follow through cases they know won't be tried quickly and fairly - and little wonder many people don't even bother to report minor crimes. 'Authorities' have fiddled statistics for decades.

Some crime rates have ONLY gone down because most of us no longer think it safe to leave our secure homes at night, avoid certain areas or even report cases of intimidation, yobbism, vandalism etc. The killer-arsonist Philpott was jailed for 7 years after multiple stabbings of his mistress and her mother - but released after only 3 years.!?! On whose authority? Farmer Martin was wrongly charged with murder, when killing an intruder in his remote farmhouse, which had been burgled more than once previously - the police unable to offer protection.

The murder charge was yet another attempt to warn citizens against 'taking the law into their own hands' - but what on earth do 'Authorities' expect when the whole system isn't fit for purpose?

I thought a caution was meant to have the effect of a yellow card. One more and you're off. Guess I was wrong about that, it's shameful.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.