Would someone with wikipedia editing capactiy ...

[Cosmocat]

PLEASE address this ...

"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

[Robb]

1. Anyone can edit, actually.

It will log your IP when you do, but anyone can. :hi:

[Dennis Donovan]

2. What's wrong with it?

[Ian David]

3. The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462890

[Little Star]

4. That was a good read by Thom Hartmann. Thanks!

[Cosmocat]

7. Reading Hartmann keyed me into it ...

I know it is beating a dead horse, but WHY ON GODS GREEN EARTH there is NO ONE in the MSM who has not brought his point up is beyond belief ...

I mean, it really is a pretty basic point ...

[Little Star]

10. I wonder why it was not also talking points for the Dems this summer.

[drm604]

5. It can be argued that it was actually a protest against corporate rule.

They were protesting the Tea Act, which was an act by the British Parliament to expand the East India Company's monopoly on colonial tea trade.

The Boston Tea Party was, in a sense, a protest against the British Government, so the statement in Wikipedia is literally true, but the protest was against an action that had occurred because of lobbying by the politically powerful East India Company.

To say that it was was a direct action against the British Government is a bit simplistic and plays into the current Tea Party meme, which attempts to liken the current "Tea Party" movement to the Boston Tea Party. The current movement plays into the best interests of many corporations and because of that is distinctly different from the Boston Tea Party.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. This description from 1776 is EXACTLY what is happening today:

"They have levied War, excited Rebellions, dethroned lawful Princes, and sacrificed Millions for the Sake of Gain.
The Revenues of Mighty Kingdoms have entered their Coffers.
And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin.
Fifteen hundred Thousands, it is said, perished by Famine in one Year, not because the Earth denied its Fruits; but this Company and their Servants engulfed all the Necessaries of Life, and set them at so high a Price that the poor could not purchase them."

from the Hartmann article, which is a marvelous reminder of how the world really worked back then...and seems to work just the same today.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/15-10

[drm604]

9. Except that the "Tea Partiers" of today

are protesting in favor of corporate rule rather than against it. So it's not exactly the same.

[salguine]

6. Everyone has Wikipedia editing capacity. If you have a computer, and there's

Wikipedia on it, you can edit it. I've edited it, and I don't belong to it or anything.