The Empire 436

The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt
by Thom Hartmann

CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" on Feb
19th in protesting President Obama's plan to help homeowners in trouble.
Santelli's call was answered by the right-wing group FreedomWorks, which
funds campaigns promoting big business interests, and is the opposite of
what the real Boston Tea Party was. FreedomWorks was funded in 2004 by Dick
Armey (former Republican House Majority leader & lobbyist); consolidated
Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch family; and Empower
America, a lobbying firm, that had fought against healthcare and
minimum-wage efforts while hailing deregulation.

Anti-tax "tea party" organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a
Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning - to promote protests across the
country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending.

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for
the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then
in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial
businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small
entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a
series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of
America.

They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property
of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the
East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked
minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the
Boston Tea Party.
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