Reply #2: "Tea Baggers" Don't Understand "The Tea Party"

[Krashkopf]

To me, the funniest thing about the "Tea Baggers" . . . (other than their unintentionally funny hand painted signs - "Tea Bagging for Jesus" is my favorite) . . . is that they so thoroughly MIS-understand American History.

The Boston Tea Party had very little to do with "taxation without representation."

The Colonists dumped a shipment of English tea (with a present value in the millions of dollars) into Boston Harbor, because the King had taken export duties (taxes) OFF of warehouses full of tea owned by The British East India Company - one of the first multi-national corporations - so that the BEIC could "dump" the cheaper, BEIC, into the Colonies, in order to undercut, and put out of business American tea merchants (the British called them "smugglers") like John Hancock.

In other words, Samuel Adams and his "mohawks" had much more in common with today's anti-globalization protesters than they do with those wacky "Tea Baggers."