The Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism

[Dante]

Not treason either.

But certainly not terrorism.

"Our founders were traitors."

Please, go away.

Is Treason Applied as the Founders Intended?

Our founders were traitors. This is a fact they carried with great weight as they sought to create a more perfect Union. Before the words were inscribed in one of the most debated pieces of text today, they were debated even by the drafters. The Treason Clause of the United States Constitution...

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[ShahdagMountains]

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What could be expected by Scots and Englishmen sent to America for merely seeking Liberty & Freedom but sent into servidtude?

Scots Irish were a rough lot.

 

[Dante]

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What could be expected by Scots and Englishmen sent to America for merely seeking Liberty & Freedom but sent into servidtude?

I've spent a while reading up on The Peopling of North America.

I don't engage too deep into arguments struggling with myths.

bye.

 

[BackAgain]

"Our founders were traitors."

Only to the crown.

But that doesn’t make the guys dumping tea into the harbor also “traitors,” you dumbass.

Please, go away.

Application denied. Gfy.

 

[Dante]

The US was founded by insurrectionists, so there's that...

Correct.

And many of their fears about Great Britain were based on conspiracy theories and whacky shit.

 

[Dante]

Look up tea party.

Get back to us when you’re conscious of that day ever arrives.

Having grown up in Boston, on the harbor, if I need shit from you on this, I'll just squeeze your head.

 

[Dante]

Did you see the size of that boat?

Traitors, the lot of you.

Did you ever see the size of the Mayflower?

 

[Dante]

Scots Irish were a rough lot.

Where do you imagine most Scot Irish lived during the mid/late 1700s?

 

[Dante]

Only to the crown.

D'Oh!

All traitors are only traitors to a nation. LOL

please

no more

ignore you here

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Did you ever see the size of the Mayflower?

What’s that got to do with it?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Where do you imagine most Scot Irish lived during the mid/late 1700s?

I don’t imagine.

They drifted down to the Appalachians l believe.

 

[Dante]

A horde of White men disguised themselves as Native Americans — coppering their faces and donning headdresses in the same tradition that would lead to blackfaced minstrel shows decades later — to commit seditious conspiracy and destroy private property. The riotous mob trespassed on three ships and destroyed goods worth nearly $2 million in today’s money — all because they didn’t want to obey a duly passed law.
I love this article, if for nothing else that it speaks truths, while asking serious questions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/13/boston-tea-party-anniversary-crime-patriot/

Opinion | Was the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism? It depends.

The Boston Tea Party took on the British 250 years ago. It pitted one American value against another.

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"A nation’s myths — exaggerated or imagined as they might be — shape its identity. Scholars claim these myths merge fiction and truth, transform incidents into parables, become sacred and resilient in the face of scrutiny, and influence personal and group behavior. If you want to know what a nation thinks of itself, listen to the stories that persist. And if you want to know whom a nation values, look to the heroes of those myths."

 

[Dante]

Try as one might, it's difficult to ignore the facts:

A horde of White men disguised themselves as Native Americans — coppering their faces and donning headdresses in the same tradition that would lead to blackfaced minstrel shows decades later —

to commit seditious conspiracy

destroy private property

The riotous mob trespassed on three ships and destroyed goods worth nearly $2 million in today’s money

all because they didn’t want to obey a duly passed law.

Back on it

 

[Unkotare]

Having grown up in Boston, on the harbor, if I need shit from you on this, I'll just squeeze your head.

You're full of shit.

 

[Dante]

More Vandalism than Terrorism

The Tea Party as it is called, was not an act carried out in a vacuum. It is convenient to look at it as an isolated act, thereby giving it the illusion of mere vandalism. But...

 

[BackAgain]

Having grown up in Boston, on the harbor, if I need shit from you on this, I'll just squeeze your head.

So, because you lived near Boston you think you know what happened there back in the late 1700’s.

Yep. You’re fubar.

 

[BackAgain]

D'Oh!

All traitors are only traitors to a nation. LOL

please

no more

ignore you here

And people who aren’t traitors at all aren’t traitors at all

Gfy. You’re an imbecile.

 

[Dante]

You're full of shit.

Ha! Dante is not.

I have a hobby of reading scholarly works and serious history of the colonies in North America leading up to and a bit after the so-called American revolution, which for my family with roots going back to the 1600s there is really a civil war.

I see neighbors, friends, relatives being turned on each other. Fuck that war between the states shit later on. The American revolution was the first civil war for Americans. Yes, we were called Americans long before the 1770s.

go back to teaching a Junior High School civic class, feeling like that makes you an educated scholar on anything.

 

[Dante]

You're full of shit.

Dante grew up on, and playing all around Boston Harbor and it's islands. Dante found colonial history to be a part of his family history. Dante's family also helped colonize British Canada (NS/NB) in the 1780s.

 

[Dante]

You have no clue what true patriotism is and is not. John Adams represented some British who were involved in putting down the riot outside the seat of the Massachusetts General Court - the Old State House in Boston, Massachusetts. You'd call him unpatriotic too.

and many of the men from the waterfront at the riot? Considered dregs of society back then.

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