The Educated Patriot: The REAL Boston Tea Party

April 14, 10:19 AMBoston Gun Rights ExaminerRon Bokleman

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Boston Tea Party

John Zorabedian, Boston Top News Examiner wrote a column today entitled “Conservatives ratchet up rhetoric about revolution, are they inciting violence?” He also did another little piece on the Tea Party movement where he further blamed Conservatives where he said:

Conservatives are turning tax day into a symbol of defiance and revolution, explicitly evoking the Boston tea party as a symbol of resistance to tyranny, at more than 100 Tax Day Tea Party events around the country on April 15.

I hate to be one of many to burst Mr. John “The Statist” Zorabedian’s little utopian bubble, but our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution in such a manner that not only enables us, but approved of us using all means at our disposal to take back our country when we the people decide that it has been taken over by tyrants.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." – Thomas Jefferson.

You see, Mr. Zorabedian, like our own State and Federal government you are very much out of touch with the people and your daily column stands as monumental proof.

Apparently, Mr. Zorabedian, Massachusetts, and the Federal government have truly forgotten what civil disobedience, symbols of defiance, revolution and resistance to tyranny really look like and I can tell you right now that these peaceful “Tea Party” rallies are nothing of the sort.

For a stark reminder, I’d suggest you review what took place at the original Boston Tea Party; a true act of violence against what the people felt had become a tyrannical and oppressive government.

These events are a signal. A signal to our State and Federal governments that we are very unhappy with both parties in power and the corrupt system they continue to feed with our hard earned wages. Yes, taxes are necessary to fund governments legitimate purpose as defined in Constitution, but after that they are theft.

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” -- Thomas Jefferson

Remember, however, when the accepted channels of politics of the day failed, they burned the King's tax stamps, dumped his tea, broke the windows of his tax collectors with rocks and bricks, smuggled forbidden goods, defied "his royal majesty" in hundreds of other ways and dared him to do anything about it.

Liberty is not free, nor is it without risk. Nor does history show us it taking a 51% majority to make it a reality.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." -- Thomas Jefferson

“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.” -- Samual Adams

Mr. Zorabedian does do us one flattery though, by his own words, by aligning the Conservative with the Founding Fathers even at his own expense and embarrassment.  Is there any other side to be on?  Well, at least he got one thing right.