Many snippets about the Tea Party at that site - will someday the story be more about Taxed Enough Already than the historic raid?
Posted on 12/16/2016 7:40:03 AM PST by NonValueAdded
On this day [12/16] in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water.
Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British 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 company to sell its tea even more cheaply than that smuggled into America by Dutch traders. Many colonists viewed the act as yet another example of Britain’s taxation tyranny.
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Many snippets about the Tea Party at that site - will someday the story be more about Taxed Enough Already than the historic raid?
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“You say....the price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay. You cry in your tea, which you hurl in the sea, when you see me go by...Why so sad?”
King George III
There is a reenactment at the Old South Meeting House that people can join. http://www.osmh.org/history/boston-tea-party/boston-tea-party-annual-reenactment though it is sold out for this year. When I went in 2001 iirc it was free and tickets weren’t required.
Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.
This is interesting. Was it about the tax, which was lowered. Or was it about the British monopoly on American tea trade?
“Catherine the Great totally hacked our tea!”
-George III
From Stan Freberg’s “History of the United States of America”
Boston Harbor, 1773: two figures huddle on the deck of a cargo ship there in the darkness…
(Loud splash)
Charlie: Whoops!
Union Steward: Geeez, Charlie, ya knocked that whole load of tea in the water there!
Charlie: Well, I miscalculated with the block and tackle, that’s all.
Union Steward: Yeah, well, I mean you blew it-you missed the whole deck there!
Charlie: Yeah, well, maybe nobody’ll notice.
Union Steward: Whaddya mean? There’s tea floating all over the place. How can I go and demand an hourly increase for you guys with fringe-—
Charlie: Yeah, yeah, well-
Union Steward: —No, no, with fringe benefits and all that if my men keep knocking stuff overboard?
Charlie: Well, well, I’m-uh-sorry.
Union Steward: Sorry doesn’t do-uh-any good, Charlie. Now I’ll cover for you this time, Charlie, but let’s get our story straight.
Charlie: Good, good, good, good…
Union Steward: Now a bunch of those patriot guys came sneaking around dressed in, uh-
Charlie: How about in Indian suits?
Union Steward: That’s good, in Indian suits. They were a little loaded, and they shoved the tea over ‘cause they were sore about the tea tax.
Charlie: Uh, okay…You think anybody’ll swallow that?
Union Steward: Well, it’s just wild enough, Charlie.
Charlie: Gee, look at it swirling around down there. I wonder where we could find a fortune teller that reads harbors?
They were actually Russians...
The other thing that does not get much press is the boycott of British goods.
Many colonialists had to go without or make their own during the boycott.
Americans today should be doing the same thing today to break the monopoly of the left today.
A good place to start would be to cancel your cable tv and force the cable companies to offer a la carte programming to break the monopoly of the left tv channels.
Anyone who has cable tv is paying the left tv channels whether they watch them or not. Each channel in the basic package(ABC, CBC, NBC, etc) gets a subscriber fee paid by the cable subscriber.
If you write a check to the cable tv company, you are funding the Left.
Ahh, my ancestors.
It was about both, wasn't it?
Because of the taxes a black market had sprung up. Customs agent were then armed with Writs of Assistance which allowed them to enter, search, and seize any goods thought to have circumvented customs agents (collectors of customs taxes). The tea was not off loaded from the ship because it would have incurred an immediate customs tax, and the ship couldn't leave harbor without offloading its product. At least that's my recollection from Fischer's book on Paul Revere.
Nothing on the ship was destroyed other than a lock to the cargo hold (except the cases of tea), which was subsequently replaced. At least a few participants were "tuned up" for attempting to remove small amounts of the tea.
I think it was an escalation and reaction to Crown taxes and trade monopoly, which allowed no other alternative to products of the Empire.
“But but but, they were interfering with FREE TRADE! How dare they attack the savvy businessmen who shipped in the tea! Ha-RUMGH!”
~Members of FR’s globalist “free trade” cabal
Obama the Undocumented Moslem Indonesian
QUARTERED diseased terrorists into homes
across the USA and the corrupt Congress
(paid in full by their bills which secretly give them %,
and by their payoffs from foreign governments)
took taxpayer money to do it.
WHERE WERE THE MOHAWK INDIANS?
WHERE WERE THE DAUGHTERS AND SONS OF LIBERTY?
(terrorized by McCain, Schumer and the IRS, every one).
Happy tea day America!
I believe it was about Samuel Adams asking Paul Revere to engrave a plaque with the words "never let a good crisis go to waste."
LOL x2
If they tried that today, Native American groups would call it racist and the EPA would sue them for dumping and polluting the Harbor. Of course if they did it today, I heard it would be around where the Garden is located. They filled in the harbor.
It’s nice to see you ping the late, great Doctor Raoul. On of the truly great FReepers.
LOL...wonderful!
Cool! I had no idea.
I’ll try to go next year.
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