Today, December 16, is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On this date in 1773, colonists destroyed a cargo of tea as a protest against “taxation without representation”. The Tea Party was a key event on the path to the American Revolution.
Two hundred plus years later, the Tea Party Movement continued the tradition of protest against an overreaching government. But there is a key difference between then and now. Those early patriots had to establish their independence and to start anew. But, our task is different. “It is not about fixed bayonets but fixed principles; not about bullets but ballots. Our task is not to overthrow; it is not revolution; it is renewal and restoration of those self-evident truths of constitutional government at the heart of America.” (via Heritage Foundation)
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