Posted on 11/26/2012 10:17:50 AM PST by Thurifer the Censer
“A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port,” wrote the teachers in charge of organizing the curriculum about the Boston Tea Party. “Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities.
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Whoever wrote this did not know that it was a classic act of civil disobedience. Most of the town knew it was going to happen. Many went to the dock to watch it. Quietly they watched their friends and neighbors, lightly disquised, march to the ship and with only token resistence from the port authorities, quickly dump the chests of tea into the harbour. Then everyone went home. To their dying days, not a soul would tell who was involved. Which is what made the Brits even more angry and why they punished the whole town by closing the port and rescinding the charter “Terroists!” Real history often doesn’t fit the educationist template, which is to try to make the past “relevant” to the present. The real question is: how relervant is the present to the past? The dope who wrote this is entirely cut off from his roots.
“Science teachers have reported frequent scientific errors in the CSCOPE lessons and learning activities. Other teachers have objected to the over-emphasis on pro-Islam/anti-Christian/anti-Judeo content. English teachers have complained about the lack of CSCOPE’s sequential instruction of phonemic awareness, phonics, grammar, usage, correct spelling, cursive, expository/persuasive writing, and research techniques.”
And the Gadsden flag shown? A coinky dink, just molding young minds. Nothing to see here ....
“Whoever wrote this did not know that it was a classic act of civil disobedience. Most of the town knew it was going to happen. Many went to the dock to watch it. Quietly they watched their friends and neighbors, lightly disquised, march to the ship and with only token resistence from the port authorities, quickly dump the chests of tea into the harbour. Then everyone went home. To their dying days, not a soul would tell who was involved. Which is what made the Brits even more angry and why they punished the whole town by closing the port and rescinding the charter “Terroists!” Real history often doesn’t fit the educationist template, which is to try to make the past “relevant” to the present. The real question is: how relervant is the present to the past? The dope who wrote this is entirely cut off from his roots.”
There was no resistance offered by the Brits and there was a pretty good crowd watching and cheering the “indians” as they dumped the tea overboard. Boston harbor was closed for a year as the British demanded that the city reimburse the crown for lost taxes on the tea.
It was just townspeople, not terorists.
Wow, wait until those Texas school kids read about a local militia that occupied a former Spanish Mission.
Wow, wait until those Texas school kids read about a local militia that occupied a former Spanish Mission.
Probably because the English Ambassador was raped, murdered and dragged through the streets. Oh wait...
!!! Especially in New York, too, which was a hotbed for Loyalists way back then.
It was actually quite different that what some people believe. They didn't dump the tea because they were mad about the tea tax. The colonists had already done a great job of “sticking it to the man” over the tea taxes. It turns out they were adept at smuggling, and famously, switching to coffee. Just how bad could that have been?Having some of my favorite coffee right now, I wonder just what it would take to make me switch to tea? It would have to be some really special tea!
The protest at Boston Harbor was over The Tea Act. That was actually a tax exemption given to The Crowns pet corporation, The British East India Company. It was designed to allow the BEIC to get their high quality tea back on the market in the colonies. That of course pissed of the colonists who hated the BEIC anyway for numerous reasons.
The equivalent of a protest like that today would definitely be seen as a terrorist attack. I'm not sure what it would have to be. Maybe some kind of sabotage of the banking system to protest the bailouts? I could see The Tea party movement people having gone along with that, at least in the first couple of months back in 2009.
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Essay: Amerikan History
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This is what happens when we hire retards to teach our children. I suppose the Minutemen were driveby shooters and gangbangers. This country is so ****** up and it isn’t getting any better.
“A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port,”
Cute but whose “nation”? These were just a bunch of British colonies, not a nation. They can’t even re-write history very well.
PING!!!!
Sam Houston would be very ashamed and annoyed at this.
A few years later US troops were singing praises for John Brown.
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave.
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave.
John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave.
But his soul is marching on!
When they teach the Alamo in some Texas schools, the kids cheer the Mexican victory
The liberal agenda is to destroy. This helps destroy the American “myth” as they would say
Charles Townshend vowed revenge for the humiliation of Stamp Act repeal. To pay for the costs of fighting smuggling, Parliament initiated taxation on glass, lead, paint, paper, tea designed to raise about 40,000 pounds/year. Also, to make sure malcontents were not pardoned like the Stamp Act violators, colonial governors and judges would be salaried by the Brit government. Colonial defendants could be transported to offshore jurisdictions without pesky local juries.
Boycotts of Brit goods spread and some efforts were made to begin manufactures here. John Hancock, George Washington did not believe Parliament had right to tax us.
John Dickinson, in Letters from a Farmer in PA, called Townshend Acts unconstitutional, we are slaves, and attacked the Acts for stripping financial control over judges and governors. All colonies protested to the King and supported boycotts. VA called the taxes internal and therefore unconstitutional. [This is big, because it is the same argument the Anti-Federalists would use against the Constitution.] The King knuckled down and ordered even stricter enforcement!
May 9, 1768 John Hancock’s sloop Liberty smuggled Madeira into Boston. A month later, a British frigate took the Liberty. Mobs attacked customs officials and the fleeing governor requested help from General Thomas Gage, who ordered ten regiments to the rescue. In VA, the new governor Botetourt, flattered the people of Williamsburg on May 8, the first day of the Burgesses. Botetourt wined and dined the Burgesses. A week after convening, the Burgesses adopted four resolutions that reiterated right to tax themselves, and petitioned the King for redress of grievances. They condemned the creation of admiralty courts to try our people beyond their colonies and without juries or to call witnesses.
The Boston committee of correpondence issued a 7,000 word declaration that fell just short of promoting revolution, but MA Governor Thomas Hutchinson saw it as such. Both Hutchinson and John Adams [as well as Patrick Henry later on] did not think dual legislatures could coexist over the same state. By Adams it was an either/or situation. We were either to be independent or vassals of Parliament. [He made glancing reference to colonial charters. These were being shredded by Great Britain. Once a contract is violated by one party, the other is released.]
The British managed to drive colonial moneyed interests away. East India stock fell to 160 from 280 on reduced consumption from Townshend tea tax. Government halted tax collection landed in England for reshipment to America and granted monopoly to the company, which ruined colonial wholesalers. A half million pounds of tea set sail from England to America in September 1773. Ships Polly, London mentioned as tea carried to Boston, Philly, NYC, and Charleston. Hostile crowds turned back the ship in Philly. Sons of Liberty threatened consignees, who quickly resigned. William Tryon, NY Governor warned British Board of Trade. First of three ships arrived in Boston on December 16th 1773 and was met with protests.
Tea Party. 342 chests, at over nine thousand pounds, or $600,000 today. Great Britain's Attorney General formally charged John Hancock and Samuel Adams with high treason as well as high misdemeanors. Other tea parties in NYC, Annapolis, Greenwich NJ. George III promised retaliation against Boston.
He followed through and closed the port of Boston.
Please see post #8..............
The article must be read in context.
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