totalwar23 said:
The Tea Act was passed by Parliament to bail out the East India Company, which was on the verged of bankruptcy. They needed to sell their products, at any price to stay afloat. So, the British government allowed the East India company to bypass American merchants and sell directly to American consumers (a monopoly system). This, of course, angered American merchants because they were unfairly cut out of the deal. Also, buying the tea would set precedent; letting Parliament grant monopolies on colonial imports. Originally, the governor of Massachusetts planned to seize the tea legally because of failure to pay the port taxes but Samuel Adams had a quicker plan of action. The Tea Act had nothing to do with taxes.
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Yes, I am sure that is what the average American thought at the time. And there certainly isn't ample historical evidence that it was used to protest British taxation. You have to understand the importance of propaganda. What people say somethine means is often more important than what it actually means.
And even if what you say is true, that would mean that Republicans are brain damaged idiots who don't know their own American history.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
