Great News For The Tea Party

@OmSigDAVID,

I just dislike arrogance.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

For my part, I unite my mind and heart with the pro-liberty philsosphy
of the Sons of Liberty in the Boston Tea Party of 1773,
and against both authoritarianism and collectivism.

If you want to be historically accurate, David, you have to acknowledge that those so-called 'Sons of Liberty' were essentially a gang of hoodlums and vandals, one step away from being outright terrorists. Their senseless sacking of the two ships bringing tea into Boston harbor (a similar incident was staged in Charleston, SC, btw) was a prime example of unwarranted misbehaviour on the part of some deluded 'patriots.' As a historical footnote, even with the taxes levied on tea brought to the Colonies, tea in North America at the time was still cheaper than what tea-drinkers were paying in London and elsewhere in England.

In a similar situation today, if I felt that government taxes on, say, tobacco were unreasonable, I'd simply give up smoking, not try and burn down the cigarette factory. Tea was a luxury, not a necessity of life; hence, there was no rational valid excuse for staging that idiotic 'Boston Tea Party.'

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coldjoint does this mean I'm not invited to your birthday party?

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@blueveinedthrobber,

No, it means you have as much concern for the future of this country as you do for anything that doesn't give you instant gratification. Which would be none.

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well I sure don't care if you live or die sweetie, you're right on that one anyway. Wink

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Enough said. Carry on.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:
For my part, I unite my mind and heart with the pro-liberty philsosphy
of the Sons of Liberty in the Boston Tea Party of 1773,
and against both authoritarianism and collectivism.

If you want to be historically accurate, David, you have to acknowledge that those so-called 'Sons of Liberty' were essentially a gang of hoodlums and vandals, one step away from being outright terrorists. Their senseless sacking of the two ships bringing tea into Boston harbor (a similar incident was staged in Charleston, SC, btw) was a prime example of unwarranted misbehaviour on the part of some deluded 'patriots.' As a historical footnote, even with the taxes levied on tea brought to the Colonies, tea in North America at the time was still cheaper than what tea-drinkers were paying in London and elsewhere in England.

In a similar situation today, if I felt that government taxes on, say, tobacco were unreasonable, I'd simply give up smoking, not try and burn down the cigarette factory. Tea was a luxury, not a necessity of life; hence, there was no rational valid excuse for staging that idiotic 'Boston Tea Party.'

It was rebellion against the tax.
I join in that spirit, which need not be confined
to what u deem to be necessities. No taxation
without representation!

David

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@Lustig Andrei,

I think you left out motivation. If you look at Islamic terror that is one of its purposes. They needed support and an attack was a way to get it. Some things never change and everybody owns it.

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@coldjoint,

coldjoint wrote:

I think you left out motivation. If you look at Islamic terror that is one of its purposes. They needed support and an attack was a way to get it. Some things never change and everybody owns it.

I'm gratified that you acknowledge that the attack on the Boston tea delivery ships was, in kind, no different from, say, the Muslim attack on the World Trade Center. A senseless bit of vandalism, based on self-serving and petulant motivation.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Quote:

no different from,

The difference was in the motives. The results the same.

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@coldjoint,

You're contradicting yourself again.

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@Lustig Andrei,

How so? I said I respect the would be Americans motives, Islams I do not.

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@coldjoint,

coldjoint wrote:

How so? I said I respect the would be Americans motives, Islams I do not.

Your respect or lack of it has nothing to do with the fact that the motivation of the Muslims and the 'patriots' is identical, as you yourself suggested -- getting the world's attention.

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@Lustig Andrei,

That doesn't change how I feel.

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@coldjoint,

How you feel is of absolutely no importance to anyone but you. I thought we were discussing something more objective here, not a matter of one's personal subjective feelings.

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@Lustig Andrei,

I thought we were discussing something more objective here, not a matter of one's personal subjective feelings.

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Discussing things objectively is hardly your forte, Merry.

Remember,

MerryAndrew: **** fair. I have no intention of being fair. I do not intend to look at the other side.

Or words to that effect. Would you like me to get your actual quote so we can revel in how objective you can be?

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there's no discussing with this one Lustig... that's why you just rile it for fun. Mr. Green

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@blueveinedthrobber,

In that, Bear, Merry and Coldjoint are two peas in a pod.

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Reading through this thread, after being away from A2K for awhile, made it very clear to me why I have been away.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where on this site there might be adult conversations?

Joe(any subject will do)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Joe Nation: Anyone have any suggestions as to where on this site there might be adult conversations?

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Sure do, Joe.

http://able2know.org/topic/230273-1

But the likelihood of you showing up is about as good as 3 steel framed skyscrapers falling into their footprints in the same city, on the same day when not a one had ever done the same thing in all of history.

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