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This is what democracy really looks like
When British colonists dumped 342 cases of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, the British authorities -- that is, the "powers that were" in the New World at the time -- regarded the act not only as a destruction of private property but a violent insurrection. The colonists were protesting against the crown, but to the British press they were "incendiaries" whose actions constituted a "riot."
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