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The Boston Tea Party Was The First Leg Of Journey To Independence · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  All right, a little Sam Spence here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network,
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  and let me tell you, if there was ever a need for some rallying,
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  you know Sam Spence music, I would say, it's to honor what
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  a big weekend it was. Not in football so much, but in American
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  history. I mean, when I hear that music, I think of the
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  fired up troops that and the sons of liberty that dumped the tea in the
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  Boston Harbor in rebellion against the English two hundred and fifty years ago. What
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  this weekend kicked off kicked off was a start to year two fifty of America,
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  because two hundred and fifty years ago, on December sixteenth, in protest
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  to the taxation, with that representation, those who do not want to go
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  along with England's rule, those who want to rebel, as I mentioned a
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  a mill ago against the taxes, dumped tea in the Boston Harbor which led
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  to the beginnings of a revolution. Couple that with the fact that this past
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  Friday, Joe Biden, interestingly enough, of course, he would reaffirmed that
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  indeed, December fifteenth is Bill of Wright's Day here in America. But did
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  you know all of that, or did you know that a sex scandal has
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  rocked Capitol Hill? Is that what you were focused on this weekend? How
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  about the Israeli Hamas War? Was that a focus of yours as well?
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  Because I think to not lose sight of what we could be, we must
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  remember where we came from. And I don't know if any of us would
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  be here today if in a two hundred fifty years ago, in seventeen seventy
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  three, the Boston Tea Party did not happen. We may not all be
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  here right now, if they did not rebel. That was the start of
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  rebellion and the March to independence. So while we deal with the current events
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  of today and the craziness of today, in the horrors of today, let's
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  remember what we could be by honoring the fact that Boston's Sons of Liberty in
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  twenty twenty three partnered up with America two fifty, an organization that is taking
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  stories of people in America on the March to two hundred and fifty years as
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  a country twenty twenty six, by the way, and saying here, we're
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  gonna honor what two hundred fifty years ago was. I mean the Harbor was
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  filled with people for the reenactment. The Red Coats were even involved as part
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  of this reenactment, the Red Coats, they went all out last night in
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  Boston, in Boston Harbor to honor the men and women the Sons of Liberty
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  that started off a journey that of course would include George Washington, the Intercontinental
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  Congress or the First Continental Congress. It would include bloody battles and Lexington and
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  Concord, victorious ones at that, it would include poor revereers. The British
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  is coming. The British is coming. But it wouldn't have happened if the
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  Sons of Liberty didn't go on and say, no, we will not pay
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  your taxes on this tee so far to the point where we will dump it
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  in the Boston Harbor. I think that's a pretty powerful statement. And today
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  England and US are allies, of course the UK. But to be knowing
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  how great we can be, and how resilient we can be, and how
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  really saying no to big government we can be, we only have to look
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  at what happened two undred and fifty years ago December sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
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  seventeen seventy three, two hundred fifty years ago, the dumping of the
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  tea in Boston Harbor. I could talk about how bad the Jets and Giants
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  were. Today, I could talk about how great it is that Josh Allen
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  looks back. I mean, at least someone in the Tri States playing decent
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  football. Hell, I can even talk about how the Chiefs knocked out the
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  Patriots in year two fifty. And now the Rangers knocked out the Bruins the
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  day of the Boston Tea Party anniversary. How's that for bucking establishment? Remember
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  the Bruins our establishment of the NHL right now, So for the Rangers to
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  knock them off and get two points on the day of the Tea Party anniversary,
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  pretty cool up in Boston. And by the way, oh, by
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  the way. And then of course we could talk about what's happened in Capitol
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  Hill and how bad this Senate staffer has has become an issue. But I
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  want to think positive today on a Sunday. I want to think positive on
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  a weekend that honored such a moment in history where we said no, we
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  will not accept your rule of thumb, we will not accept being under your
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  thumb. And by God, if we can get that spirit again and not
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  easily go into lockdown when the government tells us again, and not easily be
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  I hate to say the word sheep, but easily be swayed into doing what
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  the government tells us. We'll be better off. We are meant to be
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  a small government country, with the government intervention being very limited and only when
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  needed. And I think the Boston Tea Party and the Bill of Rights proves
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  that. I think the fight toward the Bill of Rights, which was ratified
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  in Philadelphia, by the way, proves that the fight for independence proves that
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  we broke away from England for the very reason we complain every time we file
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  our taxes because government didn't work in seventeen seventy three for those in the Boston
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  Tea Party movement. And I don't think government works for us today as well
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  as it could and should. So that's why I'm so happy that many gathered
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  in Boston on a cold December day to remember our ancestry, America's ancestry,
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  and what they did to help us become America. I'd feel like, two
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  hundred and fifty years later, we're losing it. We're losing the very fabric
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  of what it means to be America because we bowed down to government more than
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  we say more than we stick up to government. We need to stand up
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  to government when need be, take them to court when need be, dump
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  the TA in the harbor when need be, because that's the spirit of America
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  that can do attitude, not the I'm gonna let the government do it for
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  me attitude. We have to get away from that again and believe it or
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  not, when even under President Trump they pass spending bills that were still ridiculous,
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  proving to me Republican, independent businessman, Democrat or not, things can
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  get done. But at the end of the day, they're all in it
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  to keep the spending going. That's how I feel. I started this podcast,
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  in fact, because I thought my generation wasn't knowing where our taxes are
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  going. So I'm going to also say right now, for Mayor Adams to
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  even dare dare suggest raising taxes on us, I would say, no,
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  way. Focus on the migrants. First. Trump calling immigrant blood poisoning to
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  the country doesn't help our cause of a closed border system. But I think
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  instead of doing what we did on January sixth, which was really, really,
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  really really not the point of what happened two hundred fifty years ago.
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  It might have that same rebellion nature, but doesn't accomplish. It makes movements
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  look stupid. Of course, now there are laws in place where rebellion may
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  not be able to happen so quickly, so people have to break the law.
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  And I guess you could consider the dumb the Boston Tea Party breaking the
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  law. But I look at as a spirit of America right there. It
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  was an innocent act. To dump the tea in the harbor. Jan SIGs
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  was not an innocent act. So we gotta figure out better ways to rebel
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  and stand up when we see the government closing it on us so tightly.
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  And I think I think the godsend was that IRS agents won't be on our
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  asses anymore. When we're talking about taxes. They're not knocking on our doors.
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  Believe it or not. In America, the reason for the Tea Party
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  movement is still happening. That encroachment is still happening. Did you know?
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  Did you know? In America alone? I gotta find the staff for you
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  before I wrap up here on Alex Scare podcast, Because as of this year,
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  the IRIS announced an end to unannounced revenue officer visits to taxpayers. This
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  was a decade long practice by IRS revenue officers knocking on the door, and
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  we had to all be okay with that. We had to be all okay
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  with that. You know, the Inflation Reduction Act was a big part of
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  it. So thanks to Commissioner Danny Walfrow for understanding that the taxpayers should not
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  be intimidated by knocking on the door. That's a big policy change. That's
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  a big policy change, and we should be thankful for that. Sure,
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  thankful for that. But let's do other movements towards less encroachment as a country,
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  as a country, because what happened two hundred and fifty years ago was
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  saying no, no, we will not let you encroach on us. We
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  will not let you encroach on our livelihoods by giving us by presenting taxation without
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  representation. That will not happen on this third Sunday and advent. Maybe,
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  just maybe we can take that higher power of resilience and spirit of answering to
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  a different call to heart, because Christ answer to a higher calling. Even
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  the guys in twoin fifty, two hundred and fifty years ago, we're answering
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  to a higher calling of independence and freedom and yes, God by the way,
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  Yes, God by the way. The first Amendment is freedom of religion.
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  And that is something that came about because those in the Boston Tea Party
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  said no more, that active disobedience led to something bigger. So let's not
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  storm a Capitol building. Let's work on ways to remove encroachment of the government
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  that can be as successful and as poignant as Boston Tea Party two fifty on
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  that No little more spent Sam Spence for you as I say good night on
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  the Alex Garrett Podcast Network