Forum Post: Boston Tea Party - most celebrated act of Port Disruption in our nations history!
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 20, 2011, 3:14 p.m. EST by clearmountain44
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I am not condoning what is happening in Occupy Oakland. frankly I think it is a bad move. still the parallel dawned on me with the original Boston Tea Party. what was that but a port disruption? I am sure the local tea merchants were pretty peeved too.
will history be the judge. in that case it is the most celebrated act of port disruption ever!
Inconvenienced some people, too.
Apples and oranges.
on the one hand yes but on other, no. the boston tea party was a specific act of "economic vandalism" to highlight a specific wrong". it's a lot different in t e 21st century, a lot more complicated and interconnected.
i agree that what the occupiers in oakland are doing seems senseless and unfocused to me. more a self destructive expression of inchoate frustration than a rational act of protest.
at the same time, I wonder what conservatives in 1773 thought about the actions of the tea partiers, much less the British. probably had the same words to say.
Whether the enemy is overseas (Britain) or within, ( Wall St) the way to handle it is the same. The people that defeated King George bequeathed us the tools to deal with this situation. OWS has to read the 1st Amendment after the 'Peaceably assemble part'.
https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Resolves 1774