In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.
When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000.
Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.
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This is bullshit.
The real protest action was in New Hampshire the year before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Riot
I’ve wondered over the past decade or 2 whether or not things would turn out the same if these events were to be happening today — rather than 240+ years ago.
Back then we had true Patriots … people who decided to actually fight for their freedom and liberty … and to pursue the rights granted to them by God.
Today? I doubt it … not just with the snowflakes and other career malcontents … but many of the rest of US who have grown complacent with our big-screen televisions and iPhones and so on.
Just as sad, though, is whether or not any among US today could create the Founding Documents for a new nation — a Declaration of Independence, a Federalist Papers, a Constitution, a Bill of Rights … or if anyone here today could even conceive of the brilliant and beautiful prose that is evident in those document.
Who will be the Patriots today that will help US avoid the boot of oppression and fascism from our fellow Americans — and help US keep our United States of America not only truly united — but a Sovereign Nation in charge of its own present and future destiny? Who will help US preserve our cherished past … the people, the places, the events that make up our culture and our History?
Semper Fi — 1966-68