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The Boston Tea Party was an act of domestic terrorism. It's hard to determine whether an act is right or wrong without a good duration of hindsight.
by bobbylarrybobby 6y ago
The Boston Tea Party was an act of domestic terrorism. It's hard to determine whether an act is right or wrong without a good duration of hindsight.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoYep and maybe she'll be vindicated by future historians. But right now she's going to do 20 years.
- caetris1 6y agoDoubtful.
- remarkEon 6y agoThe only reason that we look at the Boston Tea Party as a "good" thing that happened is because that side ended up winning a war. If the British had won that conflict it would be a footnote in history, noting that some hooligans destroyed some property.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The only reason that we look at the Boston Tea Party as a "good" thing that happened is because that side ended up winning a war. No, it's because they ended up winning a war and became us. If it has been a group that went on to win war of national liberation against us, we probably wouldn't too kindly on it.
- remarkEon 6y agoSure, but the point remains. We remember the Boston Tea Party as a good thing only because the victors of that war celebrate it.
- tomc1985 6y agoWas it? Which part of it caused terror? I mean, unless you're trying to be funny.
- frank2 6y agoSure, but no one would argue, I hope, that British society would have been improved if the British government had changed their laws so that the Tea Party would no longer be a crime.