Huh? I don't think Trump's indictments are nonsense (although the New York case currently being tried seems trivial compared to the other two). Instead, I correctly stated that you resemble Trump supporters in that you accept only those "facts": that conform to your prejudices.Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:53 pm
Now lets talk about Trumps indictments, or are you going to persist with the fiction that they are all made up nonsense???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictmen ... nald_Trump
The Boston Tea Party WAS about taxation without representation -- although the actual taxes being protested were complicated. Read about the Townshend Acts that the Colonists were protesting.
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No. "Taxation without representation" was what it was laters to be SPUN about. But the issue was the the British ships came in peddling TAX FREE tea.
You can be forgiven for your ignorance. It is a common misconception with Americans - the people who think that Noah's Ark is literal truth in a similar porportion who think Trump is vote worthy.
"Taxation without representation" was a slogan to encourage the traitors to kill their fellows.
There you go making false assumptions.
It was you Brits...
Britain was known throughout the world as a place enouraging TOLERANCE.... who practiced religious bigotry to a greater extent than the Americans.
It was that tolerance the the "Pilgrim Fathers" were fleeing.
The U.S banned the importation of slaves in 1808. The East India Company was unloading tea to America at a loss because they'd ripped off so many Indians they glutted the market. In the U.S., as far as I know, nobody was burned at the stake for reading English language bibles. One cannot say the same for Britain.
It was the Brits who ran slave plantations in the Carribean that were even worse
{quote] THe British EMpire banned the slave trade in 1809, long before Americans fought their civil war. You really are ignorant
I just finished "The Last Mughal" by William Dalrymple. It's about the Sepoy Mutiny, which the Brits avenged by slaughtering 150 000 (or more) Indians, many of whom were guilty of nothing.
According to Dalrymple, the Mutiny was precipitated (in part) by British evangelicals both proselytizing in India, and sneering at the heathens. Thank goodness Jane Eyre refused to accompany St John Rivers on his mission, although noone can think marrying Rochester was a road to happiness.
The U.S. has been guilty of many evils (although fewer than the Brits). But dumping tea into the Boston harbor wasn't one of them.