worldnetdaily.com — In 1773, the Boston Tea Party consisted of colonists protesting Britain's "Tea Act" by throwing tea into the harbor. Why tea? Because the colonists were too far away from British parliament to throw them in. What do protesters hope to accomplish with these new tea parties? If just one polititian finds a need to take swimming lessons, it's worth it.
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johnny2kMar 2, 2009Submitter
"By Dough Powers"? Ummm, typo... that was a good one, though! Dough!!!My friend Doug Powers is the actual author. Great article, as always!But watch out for those earmarks for Congressional Swimming Lessons..... DOUGH!!!!!
johnny2kMar 2, 2009Submitter
Roger, I'm curious. Where did you find that information? From what I learned in the public indoctrination centers, that would be revisionist history. I would be very interested to know where you learned that from. I want to know which one of us got the "revisionist" history lessons. Would you mind stating your source? If what I learned is wrong, I want to know about it.
rogerstrongMar 2, 2009
The Wikipedia article is a good start...<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party</a>...but I learned it school in Canada, and from educational history TV shows like "Connections".
rogerstrongMar 2, 2009
Reading other sources around the web, it seems that the situation was slightly more complicated but the gist of the above is correct:- American smugglers were making money importing tea.- Most of the taxes of the Townshend Acts - the ones the colonists were complaining about - were repealed.... BUT the Three-pence tax on tea remained to demonstrate Parliament's right to tax. - Other British duties on the tea - paid in Britain - kept prices high for Americans and British alike.- The East India company's finances were close to collapse because it was paying the British government 400,000 pounds per year, and there was war and famine in India and economic weakness in European markets.- Benjamin Franklin proposed to the British government the idea of eliminating the British duties on tea as a way to help the East India Company. The Tea Act did this<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act</a>- Even with the remaining Three-pence tax , East India Company tea still cost less than smuggled tea, and it was time for the tea party.<a class="user" href="http://www.boston-tea-party.org/smuggling/John-Hanc**k.html">http://www.boston-tea-party.org/smuggling/John-Han ...</a>