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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (190971)	5/4/2010 9:26:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362298

History's Mad Hatters by Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman On a winter’s day in Boston in 1773, a rally of thousands at Faneuil Hall to protest a new British colonial tax levied on tea turned into an iconic moment in the pre-history of the American Revolution. Some of the demonstrators -- Sons of Liberty, they called themselves -- left the hall and boarded the Dartmouth, a ship carrying tea, and dumped it overboard. One of the oddest features of the Boston Tea Party, from which our current crop of Tea Party populists draw their inspiration, is that a number of those long-ago guerilla activists dressed up as Mohawk Indians, venting their anger by emitting Indian war cries, and carrying tomahawks to slice open the bags of tea. This masquerade captured a fundamental ambivalence that has characterized populist risings ever since. After all, if in late eighteenth century America, the Indian already functioned as a symbol of an oppressed people and so proved suitable for use by others who felt themselves put upon, it was also the case that the ancestors of those Boston patriots had managed to exterminate a goodly portion of the region’s Native American population in pursuit of their own self-aggrandizement. Today’s Tea Party movement, like so many of its “populist” predecessors, is a house of contradiction, a bewildering network of crosscutting political emotions, ideas, and institutions. What connects it powerfully to a populist past stretching all the way back to Boston Harbor is, however, a sense of violation: “Don’t Tread on Me.” ... energybulletin.net

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (190971)	5/4/2010 9:35:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362298

Now, The Rache drove from NO to Baton Rouge, and back. Considering the oil cost of refining the gas she used, did she burn a barrel today? Fish die to satisfy her travel jones.