The American History "Boston Tea Party: Everything you learned in school is wrong " or "Tea Party Myths" June 2010 magazine article presents a history of the 1773 "Boston Tea Party" that contrasts sharply with the idioticalogical attraction that is today’s US Republican abortion, The Tea Party.
The US Tea Party heirs concoct bags of lies, delusions and illusions that they divine from viewing through gun sights to market to mainstream media, thereby to the general public, as unassailable truth. The overwhelming majority of today’s Teabaggers might be considered to be dupes of US upper-class right-wing ideology, when in fact the vast majority of the Teabaggers are not being tricked by deceptions to believe in and promote upper-class/corporatist right-wing ideology, they ascribe to such fallacies as a matter of foundational faith.
There are a number of facts illuminated in the "Debunking Tea Party Myths" article I found to be absent from any ‘understanding’ I previously held concerning the 1773 Boston Tea Party event (i.e., an event aka "party"). Now I understand that the group of white men (i.e., not an event, rather a group aka "party") who costumed themselves as Native Americans to vandalize the tea shipment aboard the British ships were most likely themselves profiteers of tea tax-evasion who whose sole intent for destroying the tea cargo was to ensure that their black market price for tea would not be threatened by a cheaper supply of legal tea.
In the early 1770’s England’s East India Tea Company (an English imperialist enterprise ethically not at all unlike British Petroleum) was accumulating a huge surplus of tea, and, since the company was having extreme financial problems that were seemingly going to require a government bailout, the English government effectively eliminated the export (from Britain) tax on tea which would therefore make tea cheaper to buy in the English colonies and elsewhere. Cheaper tea from England meant that New England tea smugglers (aka tax-evaders), would have a less profitable illegal enterprise on which to depend, plus the smugglers had no doubt already committed money toward tea which they would not be able to profitably black-market when the cheaper East India Co. tea got distributed from the ships. So... American heroes! ? Hardly. The U.S. has never been without its delusionUSt$; it only makes sense that when they have gotten control of the mainstream media and the government there become fewer and fewer venues for truth and justice. Even more detrimental to the overall, long-term well-being of freedom and reason is the growing loss of appetite for truth and justice in the United States.