Boston Tea Party: Terrorism?

[Kutnupe14]

Well, it actually kinda was "terrorism," and during the Revolutionary War, many American combatants were "insurgents." We don't call them that because they won, and shaped our history, but had they lost, they all would have been hanged, and our history books would refer to our founding fathers as subversive terrorists that sought to undermine the crown.
But to be fair, had I been alive during that time, I too would have been a "terrorist."

 

[smokingman]

CSCOPE Curriculum

CSCOPE Lesson Plan on Terrorism

Straight from the source.
So....the reality is children are being taught that the tea party was a terrorist event.How far we have come.

Even more disturbing than the PDF file with the lesson plan are the internet links attached to it and listed as sources.
http://wnnetwork.com/
http://www.cfr.org/issue/135/terrorism.html (Counsel on foriegn relations)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html
http://history.state.gov/

All links are straight from the PDF lesson plan.

Part of the text copied straight from the lesson plan.
"A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the
property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although
no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise,
considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the
perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and
apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help
of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities
from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a
response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s
government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens."

 

[rambone]

It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens."

The terrorists hated the occupiers for their freedoms.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Did anyone else notice that the learned authors of this curriculum conveniently 'forgot' to mention that the problem was that local merchants could not compete with the British East India Company which was excused from paying taxes due to government sympathy with some financial straits and therefore the financial pain was to be passed on to American merchants who did have to pay the tax? This curriculum seems to paint the picture that they did it for more general reasons just short of doing it for the sheer hell of it.

 

[spearheadersarge]

The molding of the minds of the young to accept socialism and total govt control. Revisionist thinking and social justice go hand in hand. Entreprenurialism and its reward for the risk is anathema to the left. They want the spoils of those who have ventured and succeeded. They believe that others success is based on the work of the collective rather than the individual. All should share in the benefits of the haves so as to not be a have not! Conditioning of the children has been going on for generations at the hands of the progressive teachers' unions and liberal academia. The fruits of which we are just now seeing come to pass. The world must go through the throes of pain before the ship can be righted. Hope you got a lifevest!!!

 

[BehindBlueI's]

For those of you who believe it was terrorism, at least from the Crown's perspective, you've been duped by jazzed up pictures drawn to make it more dramatic. The actual event was pretty calm, no fires, no people running in the streets.

Anyone want to take a guess what was destroyed other than the tea?













One lock, which was destroyed when it was pried open. The protesters replaced it when the left. They did less damage than the "Occupy whatever" protesters, and were probably cleaner. They made their point, they didn't randomly destroy private property or "eat the rich". They weren't terrorists in the slightest, they weren't even rioters as we'd picture them.

 

[Classic]

If you're not a believer in Beck, you're a terrorist and a racialist and most likely some kind of sex pervert...or maybe a former drunk homeless coke addict. And you probably can't have a conversation without yelling at people.

There are plenty of sources to prove this point, pick up any elementary "social studies" text. You seem to insinuate that if a thing appears on Glenn Beck it is somehow not true. Or is it that you wish to discredit the evidence without actually discussing the source material?

 

[Rocket]

History is only as correct as those Who paid to have it written want it to be. I would choose to stand with the founding fathers in their quest for freedom. Based on the outcome and hindsight I wasn't there. There is a difference between Civil Disobedience and terrorism.

To counter the agenda of academia I choose to interact with my children and discuss history OFTEN.

 

[Exo594]

I was never told that the BTP'ers were terrorists, but under the government's definition of terrorism, I think that they could be shown as such. They were fighting for something, and they used force that affected citizens to get their way. It's sad that a government is putting down the people's heroes, and the people who created their own country. Just embrace your history, and move past the fallout of any consequences of what happened 300 years ago.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I was never told that the BTP'ers were terrorists, but under the government's definition of terrorism, I think that they could be shown as such. They were fighting for something, and they used force that affected citizens to get their way. It's sad that a government is putting down the people's heroes, and the people who created their own country. Just embrace your history, and move past the fallout of any consequences of what happened 300 years ago.

I believe the same could be said for rambunctious girl scout troop.

 

[jamil]

I was never told that the BTP'ers were terrorists, but under the government's definition of terrorism, I think that they could be shown as such. They were fighting for something, and they used force that affected citizens to get their way. It's sad that a government is putting down the people's heroes, and the people who created their own country. Just embrace your history, and move past the fallout of any consequences of what happened 300 years ago.

Maybe it should be reclassified as workplace violence.