Should we celebrate the Boston Tea Party in 2007?

Question

On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested against Great Britain (for unfair taxation) by destroying many crates of tea bricks on ships in Boston Harbor. This act of protest helped spark the American Revolution, which lead to the fight for independence of the American colonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_tea_party

http://www.teaparty07.com/

Answer 1

If you do, just don't try to make tea with cold salty water - it just doesn't taste very good.

I'll have to put that date in my calendar as a day to drink a nice good old cup of regular American drip coffee in honor of the Sons (& Daughters) of Liberty (and not at *$s either).

[Money is printed by the US Treasury in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC and coins are minted in various places.]

Answer 2

There was a lot more to it than just taxation.  Great Britain prevented the colonies from using their own money supply, known as "Colonial Script", and forced the colonies to borrow their money supply from the privately owned Bank of England, AT INTEREST.

This drove the American colonies into debt to Great Britain and was the primary cause for the Revolutionary War, according to Benjamin Franklin.

In 1917, a clone of the Bank of England was set up in America, called the Federal Reserve Bank, which is also a privately owned corporation.  What Americans should be remembering at the Boston Tea Party is the Bank of England / Federal Reserve Bank con, and fight to have it dissolved and the power to coin money given to the Congress, whose constitutional right it is.

Answer 3

I don't think an out and out revolt will fly but I'm up for a little civil disobedience. Our government needs told in no uncertain terms...enough is enough!!! Get over the conservative vs liberal thing. Forget that you're a Republican or a Democrat. Start acting like grown ups for a change. Remember that we are all Americans. That job the government allowed to go overseas might have been my son's some day. That new school that needs built might one day be able to say our President went to school here. So much more can be accomplished if our elected officials did their jobs for the American people instead of themselves. Perhaps a revolt might not be such a bad idea after all.

Answer 4

I had some Russian tea once that tasted like roots & twigs, I'd be willing to dump that, but not my Earl Grey.

Answer 5

Nah, I'm a coffee drinker.