Individual Rights and the Boston Tea Party

[wineblue2]

The Boston Tea Party was over global multinational corporations receiving tax breaks e.g. East India Company while shifting the entire tax burden on the citizens and putting the small business owner out of business! Sound familiar? Checkout what Thomas Hartman has to say about it as he reads from a book that was printed during that period so you can hear what one person who was actually there had to say about it! Koch talking points will NOT work here!

[wineblue2]

LMAO! This guy has no clue what the true message of the Boston Tea Party intended to send! Look up Tom Hartman and hear what someone who was actually there had to say about it!

[zjones1222]

There were absolutely no cohersive acts against the people of the United States but selfish acts of people which still owe taxes to Great Britian. Those taxes do not go away and ownership of those grave sites in the Americas are property of Great Britian and burial expenses should have been paid to them in regards to the use of the land. A new tea party is void officially in not following the laws of the British Constitution so what aquits America today from making proper payment to them?

[dpsauve71]

CUT CUT CUT NO TAXES , ok you can pay for roads and church funded programs

by regulating you keep banks , big biz and wall street from steeeeling from us . if you remember the 80 s it was Ronny and GHB that deregulated them all ,

regulation of taxes so thay work for us is what they stop . the bible says to sow your seed that means pay to play , roads bridges and the poor are just a few its not just a church way of life it must be used in all thing s

or you may as well not do it at .

[mkmcclure]

Boston Tea Protest was not over taxes. Read your history book and go beyond 8th grade. It was about a monopoly granted the British Tea Company, a subsidiary of the British East India Company. Tax on tea actually went DOWN as part of favoritism to drive local merchants out of business. Tea Baggers never let real history get in the way of a good story---which is all there is here.

[mkmcclure]

Boston Tea event was not referred to as a tea "party" until mid-1800s. The protest was about a monopoly on tea given to the British Tea Company who was waived from having to pay any duties to drive small colonials out of business. Libertarians and other right-wingers love to decry the "welfare state" while simultaneously banning abortion-even in rape and incest for many. "Keep that baby, but don't ask for any help or any day care at work!!" Beck and the other non-college types miss the irony.

[ftsmallwood]

@mkmcclure Oh, I got you now. If only I had gone to college, I would understand why the welfare state is needed. Jeez, I'm such an idiot. Guess I'll have to go to college to become a commie like you. Isn't the student load program a great idea? Tax the uneducated poor masses, so they can pay for smart people to get educated and call the uneducated people idiots. I never knew America was such a great country. It's awful funny how you changed the subject from Tea Party to abortion.

[mkmcclure]

@ftsmallwood The comment is about the philosophy (or lack thereof) of the Tea Baggers. The Tea Baggers grab historical events and change/manipulate/appropriate history for their own purposes without any respect or relevancy to the event itself. The comment is that many people either do not know enough about the event to make a comment to see the irony. This shallow vision translates into modern issues like abortion. Thanks for illustrating my point small wood. [irony ends at this point].

[mkmcclure]

@ftsmallwood Suggesion: Read A Shoemaker and the Tea Part about George Robert Twelve Hewes--the last suvivor of the events of December 1773 when he states the term "Tea Party" was applied by others decades later and unlike the douche in the video, the founding fathers did NOT use the term. Great to know history and even better to be honest about it, but that would interrupt the point of the Tea Baggers---why take a break for honesty?

[lordnuck33]

Tea Party =viliage idiots

If they got what they wanted the US would fall apart

[Onlythefaceschange]

This guy talks about a gov. that oppresses it's citizrns instead of protecting them. OMG! LOL! Rand would have a government that had no regs on business! The regs are there to protect people from business. Greenspan(an ardent Rand disciple) using Rands philosophy got the Glass Steagall act revoked. Thats what allowed the current economic meltdown to occur. That and the UNREGULATED derivative market. Without regs business will become corrupt.

[ftsmallwood]

@Onlythefaceschange, Alan Greenspan was at one time an advocate of laissez faire capitalism, but he became on of it's worst enemies in his job as Fed Chairman. As Chairman, he lowered interest rates encouraging wild speculation and the construction boom. You and Barack want to restart the wild boom with even lower interest rates, more bailouts and a new stimulus package.

[roadscholarable]

um, really!? The tea tax was lowered by the 'Tea Acts?' For whom I may ask? Please, before you say such things, study your history! The Tea Acts lowered the and actually abolished the tax for one company, the East Indian Tea Company, of which the king himself held much interest and ownership..and benefited from abolishing the 'Mom and Pop' competitors raising and selling their own tea in the colonies.

[tyrbolo]

I can't wait to see the multinationals fix things once laisse Faire removes any

restrictions on them. The existing corporate oligarchy owns the government

and it has become a minor side show powerless in a world it does not

understand beyond self interest. If government disappeared tomorrow the

corporations would still own you...GRIN

[ponybastard999]

F tea ! Bring on the old english 800

[Conservativepacheat]

thank you you said it just right

[jeffmonc]

Great comment - we need to constantly refocus on what the ideal of the founders are - because there are a lot of people out there trying to make us forget how we became great. Freedom and self reliance.

[murdocdiesel]

thx douchebag, ask W. about consolidation of power. Fucking retard.

indv rights/sarah palin Do not fucking mix

[Pirate1014]

This guy isn't the best orator; good informative video though.

[rayzor3]

RonPaulGeorgeRingo: Amen brother... That is exactly what happened! The mere fact that we had Obama and McCain to choose from is an example of the intelligence level of the American people. We have some long years ahead of us, if we make it through them.

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

MEMO to so-called "conservatives" & Republicans:

There was a 2 year long tea party from 2007 to 2008.

It was called RON PAUL for president.

I'm sorry that 95% of you CHOSE not to take part (when it COUNTED) only because your heads were so far up W's ass that you couldn't see. Take responsibility for your INACTION. It WAS your choice.

Hypocrites

[wowisuckatmath]

dude ima republican, but i didnt know about any tea parties untill yesterday

[Tacotruck1166]

Ron Paul was a good fiscal candidate but a whimpy piss ant on foreign policy.

[ftsmallwood]

It seems you want a small government that spends billions of dollars on the military to base troops all over the world. By now, you should be a fan of Obama for all the additional troops he's sending into the Afghan war. I think guns or guards on our planes should suffice instead of the government stealing billions from myself and other taxpayers to fund these wars you wish to involve us. If you wish a macho foreign policy, then just pay for it, but don't force me and those who disagree.

[olalor]

@ftsmallwood Who said Tea Party people were for these wars? Reagan didn't send troops to Libya- he just bombed their headquarters and let them sort it out- now they want to be our friends. The Bushes didn't have his backbone.

[ftsmallwood]

@Tacotruck1166 Then, I must assume you support Barack Obama sending over 30,000 more troops to war in Afghanistan. You and your friends, John McCain and Barack Obama are a bunch of commies destroying our country with your wild domestic and military spending. Who will you replace Barack with one of those GOP commies Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin.

[Tacotruck1166]

@ftsmallwood I support sending 30,000 troops to Afghanistan but not making them hold their dicks while being shot at because civilians are present. I also do not support the policy of warning Afghan civilians of searching their homes a week in advanced so that they can just stash their contraband and arms somewhere else. Mitt Romney is a communist? So infinite is your wisdom and intelligence that I can never get my IQ points back from reading your bass ackwards comment post.

[ftsmallwood]

@Tacotruck1166 I guess that means you're for Romneycare and against tax cuts. Research your commie GOP candidate, Romney who passed Universal Healthcare in Mass. and opposed tax cuts. You support commies and don't even know it!! Get smart, don't be a closet commie.

[murdocdiesel]

Hit it on the nail

[putittogether]

Great Video, thanks for the posting.

[BigOldJimmy]

If I thought for one single solitary second that this "tea party" movement was in any way a sincere effort at reforming anything, I'd pay attention to it. But it's not. It's just another GOP "astroturf" campaign, where massive corporations and billionaires recruit witless dittoheads to the cause of keeping the feeding trough going for the rich.

[Evil0tto]

Is there a left-wing cliche you didn't hit, BigOldJimmy? Let's see... billionaires, corporations, the rich, dittoheads. Hmm, the only thing you didn't mention mention was "warmongers," you unthinking drone. There's no chance you would "pay attention to it," because it doesn't fit your worldview.

[spirittalk2]

This video talks about a protest on April 15th. Where will it be and in what form?

[sccriley2778]

The protests are everywhere. You can search google maps to see if there is one happening near you. I will be attending two that day, and - to reply to BigOldJimmy - I was not recruited by a massive corporation. I happen to be able to think for myself.

[spirittalk2]

Thank you

[SuperFinGuy]

I am gonna be there!

[abdellat]

This is my cup of tea. Free us from the ball and chain of welfare statism. Welfare for the poor and the middle class, corporate welfare in the form of bailouts, it's all slavery to the state. The inflation that the Fed is manufacturing with all this easy money is destroying what's left of our wealth. Why save money if the government is rendering it worthless? The addiction to government that is morally and financially bankrupt is madness. We really have forgotten what freedom is.

[freebuoy]

@abdellat couldnt have put it better

[1776amrev]

Putting the principle behind the tea party. Very important! Thank you, Ayn Rand Insititute!

[Freemarketeer81]

Governments exist to grow and take over individual rights. We must abolish government.

[thbyrnes]

"... When you see that in order to produce, you need permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that our society is doomed."

-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957

[grantsinmypants2]

Those silly libertarian tea party protestors... god bless their ignorant hearts.

[anti0918]

Silly declaration of indep... oh wait...

[RyanLVMetal88]

silly idiot. shoot yourself.

[Beethovens7th]

"Those silly libertarian tea party protestors... god bless their ignorant hearts."

Haha, I think a lot of people mis-understood your comment and thought you were some leftist. It has a -11 rating.

[legendre007]

Excellent commentary. :-)

[swanberger]

I like seeing new faces from ARI. Good video, Don Watkins! :) / Happy buyer of Axiomatic. ;)

[Onlythefaceschange]

@swanberger Ayn would set business free from even having to lobby(aka graft and corruption) congress. The problem is corrupt congress not that business is regulated.

[ftsmallwood]

@Onlythefaceschange Regulations means favors for one side and penalties for the other side. Government regulations corrupt business and our country. Your regulations are destroying our country. Seems you're for slavery by our politicians who will make us all into drones for your ideas.