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But he was elected by the people. You don't believe in the democratic process?
The outcome of a democratic election that you don't like = tyranny. You didn't know that? JUST LIKE the Boston tea party. Can't you see how similar they are?
Britian was regulating the people and taxing them out of a decent profit. The series goes into it in depth though and tells how events came about. Interesting series. Important for kids to watch.
Whatever. Can we now test you on your history knowledge?
Who is going to do that? You? The same person who sincerely believes that the tea party today actually mirrors the Boston Tea Party? That's the irony in your original post. If you actually watched it, or read about it, you would understand how ridiculous the comparison is.
"We" means us all. The current TEA Party is against big government trying to control every aspect of our lives. I think they are the same in that respect. Feels like our government is taking over and that is the feeling of many if I read the current moods right.
Britian was regulating the people and taxing them out of a decent profit. The series goes into it in depth though and tells how events came about. Interesting series. Important for kids to watch.
Why was it that Britain was taxing tea? How about another major issue they listed as a grievance leading to the war...eviction of the settlers beyond the 1763 proclamation line? Do you know what was the root cause of Britain's actions in these two matters?
Lots of comparisions between now and then.....Did you pay attention to the fate of the non-working, athesistic, entitlement minded, native killering founders of Jamestown compared to the Religious freedom seeking, hard working, can do founders up the coast in Plymouth.....................
The colonists of Massachusetts felt they weren't being fairly represented in the British Parliament.
A government 3000 miles away could make and enforce any law it wished without the consultation of the American colonists.
The Sons of Liberty used the ever popular phrase, "No Taxation without Representation" and dumped the ever precious tea commodity into Boston Harbor-which was the busiest port in North America at the time, so it was a bfd (to quote Biden).
The Tea Party today likes to invoke the memory of the Boston Tea Party, when in fact circumstances are totally different. We have federal republic with a representative democracy in place to address greivances. It is a government derived from the consent of the governed. Its consent comes from your vote. The colonists on Massachusetts and the other 12 colonies didn't have anything like that. In fact their government was 3000 miles away on a different continent.
Britian was regulating the people and taxing them out of a decent profit. The series goes into it in depth though and tells how events came about. Interesting series. Important for kids to watch.
Was the tax on the British tea unually high?
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