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Originally Posted by tvbound
Sorry, but it wasn't the British East India Company that instituted the taxes, so the analogy is totally legitimate. The difference being, a lot of people have no problem with rioting and illegal acts, as long as it is white people doing it (Jan 6 perfect example). What's sad is seeing so many white people who are upset and try to deflect, that a racist bad cop was finally held accountable. Let this be a springboard to hold the small % of bad cops accountable and their peers (who know who they are) speaking up - from here on out.
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Wrong! A little history lesson follows...........
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to
save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.
Try again!