What The Boston Tea Party Was Really About

Thom talks about the real history behind The Boston Tea Party. Check out www.thomhartmann.com.

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[Jsickert]

Citizens do have the right to remove government officials. Its called recall. All you have to do is get enough signatures to get the recall vote on the ballot, that's how we got rid of Gray Davis here in California. The people can even get a Supreme Court Justice removed if we can prove they are guilty of treason. We have the power it's just most people have either forgotten or don't care.

[seahorse1945]

Beware liberals quoting playboy journalists. What a joke! The Boston Tea party was and always will be a fight with the King of England - the Crown- for imposing usurious Tariffs on the people-- it was a Blow to the King, his money squeezers, as well as the trading company that was gladly going along with the Kings edict. This over-taxation is the same thing people in Liberal Big Govt want. Vote them out!

[kdcruz75]

utube : US is East India company

teh first union flag was the east india company

george washington ..a direct descendent of the 23 surety barons and knights templar head ROBERT de ROSE ( one of the sureties) who frmed the city of london corporation

NEVER, NEVER NEVER signed the declaeration of independence..

he flew teh britihs east india flag..

utbe: why obama's certificate is irrelevent ..

sons of liberty where aa masonic organisation ..boston tea party was a false flag event

[123FishCrazy]

@thrillrock86 Amen to that. I'm sure we

re going to have to take a stand ifwe don't want our country totaly taken over by million $ corporations-we're very close to it now.

[qwertypoiu4321]

This is a lie.

[MyceliaProductions42]

Hearing him mention the Koch brothers was eerie and prophetic for 2009.

[STUBBORNOTTER]

@seahorse1945 How ignorant. Have you never heard of the the British East India Tea company? A multinational corporation just like the ones that run the Tea Party. You can't counter Tom Hartmans with facts. You just like a 2 year old just say no it wasn't .

[th3gr8juan]

@thrillrock86 They weren't necessarily against the East India Tea Company, but they were against the government imposing this company on the colonists. To say they were against the modern day WalMart would be true if the government mandated that WalMart be the only store you were allowed to shop at. To say that capitalism and corporatism are the same here is a perversion of history and economics.

[thrillrock86]

"No taxation without representation" is what we were taught in school. That's it. There was never any mention of abuses committed by multinational corporate giants, just British tea and taxes. This narrow interpretation of history is one of the major reasons why the modern Tea Party and many Americans are belligerently nationalistic and pro capitalist to the point where they defend Wall Street against any attempts to regulate their abuses. Hell, even Rand Paul practically defended BP.

[thrillrock86]

I love the real Boston Tea Party. The modern equivalent should be a massive boycott of Wall Street banks, people closing their bank accounts and opening accounts with local credit unions as well as chartering state owned banks. This should be coupled with boycotting the chain stores and systematically forming new businesses and cooperatives to replace the low wage, bloated profits, service sector economy where the working class sells their labor power to oligarchic dictators.

[SIMKINETICS]

Hence, the current 'tea party' & conservative influence to urge demeanment of Jefferson in Texas history books. Jefferson, the anti-corporatist, anti-bankster is not allowed reverence. He only authored the Declaration of Independence & supported the Bill of Rights; minor contributions! Down is up.