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Originally Posted by Bucco
Nothing is being whitewashed? History IS being spun. Statues are being removed, damaged by mindless MOBS. Books are being removed form school libraries.
The Tea Party adopted, "Don't tread on me," as a motto. It would take a book to reply.
History. The Tea Party of Boston was not as simple as taught in school. A tax on tea.
While they did not yet know about germs they knew that you could not safely drink the water in the cities without getting sick. Then as now you need water to live. People drank liquor as the alcohol killed germs. I expect the heroes to me, who wrote the declaration of independence, the constitution etc had a buzz on when they did it.
As to tea, since you boiled the water, that too would bill the germs.
The destruction of the British tea screaming about taxes, was organized by Alexander Hamilton a bit of a scoundrel turned into a hero by history. Hamilton had a warehouse full of tea and he would have been financially ruined by the British tea.
We think, we are indoctrinated as if scoundrels have just been invented.
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If I take from that the good part about boiling tea killing germs - I see a situation where if the Native Americans along the Atlantic coast had ONLY drunk tea ( or alcohol )instead of smoking whatever ( in a Peace Pipe), then there would have been so many more Natives around that the white colonists could not fight them. The 2 groups would have had to have diplomatic relations and BOTH would then prosper. I also remember that the early Spaniards brought measles or some other disease with them even before the English Colonists. Too bad that Spaniards and Native Americans did not drink something that needed boiling? There seems like there would be MORE to both those stories???????