I think its kind of funny that this clown says tea partiers don’t know what the Boston Tea party was about but doesn’t bother to educate us.
He or she either doesn’t know, or does know and realizes that it won’t help their case.
My explanation is simplified but the Tea act of 1773 was just the final insult in a long line of insults. It actually lowered taxes on tea in an attempt to flood the market with “approved” British imports and stem the smuggling of tea that was a major source of funding for a growing rebellion. It allowed the British to enter and seize warehouses and their contents only to slap a stamp on them and sell the seized goods with the British tax.
All in all, the tea partiers of today seem to have a pretty fair understanding of the right and wrong of the Boston tea party if not the intricacies surrounding it.