[P-Marlowe]

At some point something has to go beyond symbolic and actually cost something real. The Boston Tea Party was not symbolic. Both merchant and crown were financially injured. P

Back then vandalism against the Crown was a capital offense.

I suspect that dumping tea into a river in Iowa is not a capital offense unless you scream some racial epithet or dress-up like an American Indian while you are doing it.

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dress-up like an American Indian while you are doing it.

HORRORS!!

They'll certainly Sioux over something like that.