The anniversary of Rick Santelli's call for a Tea Party on February 19, 2009 was noted as being the start of the Tea Party Movement. We don't want to minimize Mr. Santelli's rant. However, THE NEW BOSTON TEA PARTY posted this entry on January 22, 2008, a full year plus before Mr. Santelli shouted his call from the floor of CBOE.  On February 3, 2008 we again took a stance and asked the Nation if a TEA PARTY can happen again. As two years have since passed, the Patriots in our great land have come forward; one by one, the movement has grown and will not stop until "we take our country back."

BY NOW YOU KNOW Karl Marx, once upon a time he saw the workers (the proletariat) over-running the bourgeoisie, those who exude success and demand respectability.  Today the workers are at a similar stage in history. They are not about  to overrun the bourgeoisie, but the powerful political establishment.  The producers of wealth, you the worker, today's middle class, a majority of which may have been defined by MARX as the bourgeoisie in his era, but now are today's proletariat are having their pocket picked by the non-workers. And why is this?  Because the politicians are at the beck and call of the tax eaters. 

Give them (the tax eaters, couch potatoes, dead beats, those who exist by the handouts of the state) a free meal and next they want a free house, that is their ralling cry.  And the liberal political philosophy of the day is to give those who shout and cry the most, the unproductive, the leach, the excuse monger, those who blame others for their lot in life, for their misery, those who are destitute by not the fault of others but their own fault, everything they demand.  And who pays for this, but you the worker, you the wage earner, the silent majority, you the breadwinner.  Is this Adam Smith's free lunch? For them it is, for you it is panhandling forced upon you by the government  From your hard work, from your toiling day and night to make ends meet, this weight on your shoulders has now reached the unbearable, yes the tax burden in all its glory is now your albatross. It is now time to end this political shell game.

That great sucking sound you hear is not from Mexico, (remember Ross Perot), but it is from Washington. WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITE, SHED THOSE TAX CHAINS OF BONDAGE (THE CURRENT TAX EASTERS IN WASHINGTON MUST NOW HEAR YOUR DEMANDS), OPEN YOUR EYES, YOUR EARS, YOUR MOUTHS.  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE TAX SYSTEM AND THOSE LOFTY ENTITLEMENTS TO THE TAX EATERS MUST END NOW!

Amendment XVI (the Sixteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1913. This Amendment overruled Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), which greatly limited the Congress's authority to levy an income tax. This Amendment allows the Congress to levy an income tax without regard to the States or the Census.  AND NOW THIS HAS GONE TO THE EXTREME. IT ALLOWS THE CONGRESS TO LEVY AN INCOME TAX ON YOU WITH LITTLE REGARD TO YOUR PRODUCTION OR VALUE TO SOCIETY, YOUR DEBT OBLIGATIONS, YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL DEMANDS, YOUR REAL ESTATE TAXES, YOUR STATE INCOME TAXES, YOUR SALES TAXES. YOU WILL SOON BE IN DEBTOR'S PRISON UNLESS YOU STAND UP NOW FOR YOUR RIGHTS. IT IS YOUR MONEY. IT IS ABOUT TIME THIS MONEY SPIGOT TO THE GOVERNMENT BE ENDED.  

MORE AND MORE TAXPAYERS ARE FED UP WITH THE "GIVE TO THE THOSE IN NEED FROM THOSE WHO HAVE". TODAY'S MIDDLE CLASS HAS MORE DEBT OBLIGATIONS THAN ANYTIME IN ALL OF HISTORY, THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE. AND SOON THEY WILL HAVE NOTHING BECAUSE OF THIS NEVER ENDING DEBT SPIRAL THE SPENDING AGENDA IN WASHINGTON, MUST BE STOPPED, THE STATE AND LOCAL SPENDING MUST BE STOPPED.

IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE ACTION, DEMAND ACTION, DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. YOU THE PRIVATE ECONOMY MUST DEMAND THAT THOSE WHO WORK FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, THOSE WHO WORK FOR STATE GOVENMENTS AND THOSE WHO WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN ADDITION TO THE LEGISLATORS AND LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL RETIREES, YOU MUST DEMAND THAT THEY MUST ACCEPT PAY CUTS NOW, THEY MUST  ACCEPT MODIFICATIONS IN THEIR PENSION AND HEALTH BENEFITS.  WE THE MIDDLE CLASS PRODUCTIVE WORKERS CANNOT SHOULDER THE BURDEN ANYMORE.  WE ARE FED UP. 

WE CAN ONLY ACQUIESCE, WHEN OUR SALARIES, HEALTH BENEFITS, PENSION PLANS DISSOLVE BECAUSE PRIVATE INDUSTRY MUST REMAIN COMPETITIVE IN THIS GLOBAL ECONOMY. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN, YOU THE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL WORKER WHO MUST ACCEPT THIS SAME REALITY.  WE CANNOT PAY YOU MORE THAN WE ARE MAKING. THE FREE LUNCH IS OVER.  THE AUTO INDUSTRY HAS ACCEPTED THIS REALITY, IT IS NOW YOUR TURN AT THE GUILLOTINE.

AND WE ASKED THE QUESTION ON FEBRUARY 3, 2008, CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN?

THE ORIGINAL BOSTON TEA PARTY, CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN?

THE INFORMATION BELOW IS FROM WIKEPEDIA
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Event

1789 engraving

On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before the tea was due to be landed, Captain Roach appealed to Governor Hutchinson to allow his ship to leave without unloading its tea. When Roach returned and reported Hutchinson's refusal to a massive protest meeting, Samuel Adams said to the assembly "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country". As though on cue, the Sons of Liberty thinly disguised as Narragansett^{[2] [3]} Indians and armed with small hatchets and clubs, headed toward Griffin's Wharf (in Boston Harbor), where lay Dartmouth and the newly arrived Beaver and Eleanour. Swiftly and efficiently, casks of tea were brought up from the hold to the deck, reasonable proof that some of the "Indians" were, in fact, longshoremen. The casks were opened and the tea dumped overboard; the work, lasting well into the night, was quick, thorough, and efficient. By dawn, over 342 casks or 90,000 lbs (45 tons) of tea worth an estimated £10,000 had been consigned to waters of Boston harbor.^[1] Nothing else had been damaged or stolen, except a single padlock accidentally broken and anonymously replaced not long thereafter.

Tea washed up on the shores around Boston for weeks. Attempts were made by the citizens of Boston to carry off some of the tea. A small number of small boats were rowed where the tea was visible, then beating it with oars to render it unusable.^[4]

The fourth East India Company ship carrying tea did not arrive with the other three because it had run aground in Provincetown. All fifty-eight tea chests were salvaged and put onto a fishing schooner, which arrived safely in Boston and into Bostonian's teapots.^[5]

Reaction

Hutchinson's actions had caused a crisis. He had been urging London to take a hard line with the Sons of Liberty. If he had done what the other royal governors had done and let the ship owners and captains resolve the issue with the colonists, the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and the Beaver would have left without unloading any tea. Lord North said that if the colonists had stuck with nonimportation for another six months the tea tax would have been repealed^[6]. In February, 1775, Britain passed the Conciliatory Resolution which ended taxation for any colony which satisfactorily provided for the imperial defence and the upkeep of imperial officers. Tea Act was repealed with the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778.

In Britain, even those politicians considered friends of the colonies were appalled and this act united all parties there against the colonies. Lord North said, "Whatever may be the consequence, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over".^[7] The British government felt this was an action which could not be unpunished and responded by closing the port of Boston and put in place other laws that were known as the "Intolerable Acts," also called the Coercive Acts, or Punitive Acts. In addition, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and Benjamin Church were charged with the "Crime of High Treason".^[8]

In the colonies, Benjamin Franklin stated that the destroyed tea must be repaid. Robert Murray, a New York merchant went to Lord North with three other merchants and offered to pay for the losses, but the offer was turned down.^[9] A number of colonists were inspired to carry out similar acts, such as the burning of the Peggy Stewart. The Boston Tea Party eventually proved to be one of the many catalysts which led to the American Revolutionary War. At the very least, the Boston Tea Party and the reaction that followed served to rally support for revolutionaries in the thirteen colonies who were eventually successful in their fight for independence.

Many colonists, in Boston and elsewhere in the country, pledged to abstain from tea drinking as a protest, turning instead to "Balsamic hyperion" (made from raspberry leaves), other herbal infusions and coffee. This social protest movement away from tea drinking, however, was not long-lived