I just wanted to send out the correct history of the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party occured on December 16, 1773. Paul Revere joined up with a group of Patriots calling themselves the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships carrying tea from England and proceded to dump most if not all into Boston Harbor. They did this in response to the British Government allowing the East India Tea COmpany to undercut other tea merchants thus allowing them to effectivlly put colonial merchants out of business or causing severe financial hardship to them. The Boston Tea Party was not part of the revolutionary war, but a catalyst for the revolution. The Revolutionary War was a war for Liberty and in protest of taxation with out representation. The British were taxing almost everything that the colonists needed and used. The British Parliment (the governing body of England) consists of the House of Lords and House of Commons...no memeber of the Parliment was from the colonies so therefore we were being taxed with no chance of stating our case against these unfair taxes. (Sounds familiar doesn't it???) For those of you who were ill informed, I know that it is not your fault that you did not learn about this as todays' government schools choose to not teach real American History any longer. Instead they choose to focus on "playing well with others" and the liberal agenda of MOST teachers.
No one was injured during the orriginal Boston Tea Party. The only damage done to the ships was a broken lock (that was replaced a few days later with a new one.) Several persons attemped to reimburse the East India Company for the value (minus taxes of course) of the tea that was destroyed, however these overatures of peace were rejected. So that pretty much made it the very first peaceful demonstration.
I encourage all that were born after 1970 or so to try to obtain some history books that were printed before the mid 1970's or so...
oh yeah... and the Paul Revere to whom I refer is the guy who made the famous ride (read the poem by Henry Wasdworth Longfellow) NOT the guy who had the band in the 1960's
I got all my info from believe it or not, a Weekly Reeder Children's Book Club Book copywrighted in 1973 and Wikipedia...
Jane IN GA
I say the US Senators and Congress persons need to take an unpaid leave for a few weeks...and we need to put salary caps on THEM!!!!!!
for makin' no sense. 