Patriots or Punks?

[Ombudsman]

So a bunch of white college kids dressed in black face robbed a local Publix, angry that the price of milk included a sales tax. They then dumped the milk in the gutter outside.

Okay not really. But how is this any different than the Boston Tea Party patriots dumping tea in the bay? They could have protested the tax by simply not purchasing the tea. Instead they stole it from its rightful owners and dumped it.

[billy.pilgrim]

So a bunch of white college kids dressed in black face robbed a local Publix, angry that the price of milk included a sales tax. They then dumped the milk in the gutter outside.

Okay not really. But how is this any different than the Boston Tea Party patriots dumping tea in the bay? They could have protested the tax by simply not purchasing the tea. Instead they stole it from its rightful owners and dumped it.

I think you may have missed the context of the tea incident. they were protesting that no tax was being levied on the corporate/royal owned tea in order to make it less expensive than tea sold by the little guy

kinda like not charging walmart and exon for the military supplied by the out of work American taxpayer to escort their ships from china into our taxpayer subsidized ports, rail lines and highways

[Mr.B]

Should this title be "Patriots Or Punks?"

[Ombudsman]

Should this title be "Patriots Or Punks?"

yes

[Ombudsman]

So a bunch of white college kids dressed in black face robbed a local Publix, angry that the price of milk included a sales tax. They then dumped the milk in the gutter outside.

Okay not really. But how is this any different than the Boston Tea Party patriots dumping tea in the bay? They could have protested the tax by simply not purchasing the tea. Instead they stole it from its rightful owners and dumped it.

I think you may have missed the context of the tea incident. they were protesting that no tax was being levied on the corporate/royal owned tea in order to make it less expensive than tea sold by the little guy

kinda like not charging walmart and exon for the military supplied by the out of work American taxpayer to escort their ships from china into our taxpayer subsidized ports, rail lines and highways

I think you missed the analogy. They stole tea belonging to someone else and destroyed it.

[neoplacebo]

How about this analogy? We stole our whole country, but so far haven't destroyed all of it.

[Dryer Vent]

We resemble the punk remark.

[Dryer Vent]

Actually, if we were alive we'd resemble the punk remark.