Think BOSTON TEAPARTY..or go research it in your case. The 1/6 patriots did nothing more than our founders intended and did.
Bull fawking shit, you are a damn moron. In the Boston Tea Party they came aboard the ship, at night, and tossed all the tea overboard. They were not screaming hang the captain, they didn't break in the captain's quarters, take the ship's log, break off parts of the ship for souvenirs, or vandalize any other part of the ship. Matter of fact, when some people tried to fish some of the chests out of the sea to get some free tea they got their asses kicked. And perhaps most importantly, every damn dime of tax on that tea was paid, Benjamin Franklin made sure of it.
The boston teaparty, the PROTESTORS put on funny outfits (dressed like indians and other things) broke onto the ships likely with some of the crew helping or allowing them on and then tossing off chest of tea leaves? The original teaparty was followed by another boston teaparty and several other teaparties in other colonies----------to claim that no one involved in these teaparties took momentos is naive and silly but as pathetic as claiming that the Teapartiers and the 1/6 protestors aren't behaving a lot alike.
Look, I don't like anything better than educating people about the Boston Tea Party. First, it was not about taxes. In fact, the Tea Act, which was the spark that ignited the Boston Tea Party, did not evoke any new taxes on the colonies. The tea tax itself had been in place for more than six years, part of the Townshend Revenue act passed in 1767. The Tea Act granted a monopoly to the East India Tea company, that is what pissed off those protestors. Hell, after the Tea Act tea was actually cheaper for the colonists, even with the tax. But that monopoly threatened the lifelihood of legitimate tea merchants and smugglers. In fact, smuggling was a huge part of the Revolutionary movement.
Tea was destined for New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Boston. The colonists convinced the cosigners receiving the tea in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, to refuse acceptance and return the tea. But the governor of Massachusetts two sons were part of the cosigners for the tea destined for Boston and they would not refuse acceptance. And here is the thing, if the tea was not unloaded and the duties paid within 20 days it was going to be confiscated, and unloaded in America anyway. So a little over a hundred men boarded the ships and tossed the tea. And no, there was no other damage to the ships.
Now yes, there were other actions linked to the Tea Party. Two specifically, and they both revolve around the tea of the East India Tea company. A ship had run aground in Cape Cod. The duties were paid and the tea was off-loaded. It was stored in a warehouse in Boston, that tea was destroyed when they raided the warehouse. But some of it had already been delivered to Davis, Newman, and Co. Their shop was broken into and that tea was destroyed. In both cases, the culprits dressed as Mohawks. And yes, ever damn bit of the tea, in all three cases, was paid for.
So, as soon as all the rioters on the Capitol cough up the money to pay for all the damages, well you might be able to at least give them that similarity. But in the Tea Party no merchants, soldiers, or guards were killed. No tea was taken for personal use. No looting of anything happened. There was no vandalism. Hell, it was not even a protest against the government itself, other than the corporate favoritism being given to the East India Tea Company. There is no comparison whatsoever.
