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Tyranny Takes Many Forms

Tyranny Takes Many Forms

by Frank Schiavone has been added to Cackle – the sound of your opinion site.

On a cold December night in 1773, some seriously annoyed British subjects held a tea party aboard three ships in the service of the East India Company. Now this wasn’t your typical, genteel English tea party. In fact, it was more like a rowdy masquerade party hell-bent on raising a ruckus.

Samuel Adam’s Sons of Liberty, in their amateurish Narragansett costumes, quickly dispatched 45 tons of very expensive tea into Boston Harbor. Their purpose was not to caffeinate local fish populations but to send a message to King George and the British Parliament some three thousand miles away.

Read the full article on the different forms of tyranny today.

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