I am not endorsing it, just putting it out there.
and how will history spin the J6 protest? see for yourself
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
There is normally more then one side to any story.
History is constantly being rewritten just as our culture is being cancelled. Today’s Boston is hardly a Patriot stronghold. The participants of the Boston Tea Party would be ashamed of what Boston is today, whether were Patriots or racketeers.
Considering Massachusetts gave us Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, I’d say the whole damn state could sink under he waters of Kerry’s imagined glow-bull warming.
Your post is ironic because I recently began posting comments related to circumstances surrounding the BTP.
Specifically, the ‘intolerable acts’.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s patriot.................
Revisionist clap trap
The War of Independence was mainly a revolt by the Colonial capitalists, many engaged in illegal trades, against the nobility of Great Britain, i.e. the King and the House of Lords.
Besides the illegal sea borne trade of the New England seaports, there were the ambitions of the mid-Atlantic colonies to settle the newly acquired Ohio River Valley without the process being managed from London.
The “Founders” were mostly colonial commoners who had become wealthy as planters, land speculators, merchants, and traders, while the reviled colonial governors were British nobility, as were many of the British Army commanding officers.
There is nothing “secret” about the Tea Party or the causes of the Revolution.
I was taught this in a rural high school in the 70’s....maybe my hardcore patriot teacher was woke?
Even our text books said it was about un-taxed men being taxed by an increasingly illegitimate government based on a monarchy.....a weakened monarchy, but it was still Lords over Commons.
The Reformation ended “divine right”, as all men are equal before God thru Jesus.
The outgrowth of that was the trendy Enlightenment authors who called for capitalism (property), rule by consent and by men of merit.
The Colonies, now that the Spanish and French threats were defeated, had a ready made local elite with a system of self-governance already in place.
And....they were armed.
Of course, the Atlantic Ocean was helpful, too.
Thanks BT.
I don’t want to register to read it, but if I may, I do have a comment.
I would like folks to understand that the aggression we took in Boston that day was against our neighbors who had already paid the tax. The same principle applies to a union going on strike. The violence is against the scabs who are cooperating with management not against management itself. This is very unpleasant for our side and contributes to the fatal hesitation that historically has weakened the efforts of the good and the godly to resist tyranny.
Here I list the three other factors which only hinder our side and not our enemies:
1. Legitimacy. We only work within and through legitimate government structures. The Civil War was carried out by elected government officials, on either side, as was the Revolution of 1776. Our enemies however will steal elections and break store windows whatever is necessary.
2. Last Resort. Our government sent an Olive Branch Petition to the King in July of 1775. It was terribly naive, but that is how we are. South Carolina seceded too late. While the various compromises were implemented postponing not averting the conflict, the North continued to build ships and railroads until it was impossible for them to lose. Our conservative women are especially bad about this. They don’t want to fight until it is absolutely necessary, until they are frightened enough, but by then it is too late.
3. Leadership. Conservatism works off principles not personalities. Therefore, without leadership, we cannot galvanize, cooperate and coordinate efforts, and most importantly we cannot prioritize threats. Ronald Reagan did this in the 198o’s when he set aside the balanced budget fight in order to defeat Russian Communism.
Because of these four principles, I do not believe our side and win without God’s help. We had that in 1776 and again in 1863, but today?
Praying for revival.
God’s will be done.
True, the Tea Act reduced the “price of tea” . . . in theory.
But heightened crackdown on smugglers that accompanied the law meant that ordinary American colonists would pay far more.
Here is a comparable scenario:
You have a freeway where the speed limit is 65, but everyone drives 72 or 73. Gov enacts a law that raises the speed limit to 70, but promises 1 year in jail mandatory for anyone going so much as a mile over. REAL speeds fall to 67 or 68. The threat of the law altered the real behavior of colonists, causing them harms.
Probably a good historian but may be biased when it comes to the colonials' complaints against the British government.
Yeah, I really don’t need an article from a British Magazine about the Boston Tea Party,
bump
I heard a different spin along time ago, it basically went like this the King George was shutting down the illegal Presbyterian commercial as people didn’t want to support the King George Catholic commercial, in other words the King basically said you could only buy and sell from the King’s stores, and were shutting down/busting up the Presbyterian commercial/stores and making it illegal to have their own stores. This may be true and it may be false or some where in-between, but I have a tendency to believe that there is more truth to it then not.