The First Tea Party
Part One - Under the Tree Before Supper.
Hay Unk! Why did they have the First Tea Party? How did all begin?
In one way I guess it all began when God Said let there be
light. But it is almost dark so I guess
I will have to cut out most of the first part.
Since everything started when Adam bit the apple and we have just gone
from one mess to another ever since. For
the most part there has always been someone just going around taking what he
wanted from the rest of the folks just trying to plant our own rice.
The Kings
I guess the biggest bunch thieves of all were the kings, who
by divine right said they had the right to rule. Rule that is a code word for take what you
got. Divine right also means "Had a bunch more homies then the other thugs
in the neighbor hood." For most of the time Kings went around trying to
steal, the land and with that land the people on it, from other Kings. You
might say just try to expand their tax base, the more land you controlled the
more people you have to steal form, and you and you Army can live it up on wine,
the company of too many women. Take Alexander the Great for example, he spent
all his life trying to get more but took no time off to just kick back and enjoy it
all. But that is another story. These little land grab deal, they called wars,
cost the king a lots of stuff. To get the stuff need the King trumped up one
excuse or another to justified stealing more stuff by what they called taxation
form the guy who was planting the rice.
Rice was important to the king to feed his gung to thieves he called his
army. You would think that the guy who
planted rice could get rich selling his extra rice. Have you ever know a guy
who had his own garden that did not have more of what he grew than he needed?
But after taxes, believe me, there is not much profit in. So for the most part the kings got richer and
the famers stayed poorer much like the rest of us who have tried to work for a
living. So for a long time there were
more and more people to work and pay taxes and bigger and better ways to kill
of the people who got in the way and people called that civilization. Kings and Religion
Things really get whipped up when you mix the rulers of the
this life, the rules in this life trying to steal from you so you will have a
good time in the next life get together. Just look what happened to my Kin folk
who are called Scot-Irish.[1] They are not Irish like the one who came
later and are now called Irish Catholics.
You see the Scot-Irish were not originally from the emerald isle, they
came from Scotland. They part in this who ruckus over who was going to be King
over here in American. They had little use for kings and still don't even today
when they are now called redneck, but again that is a whole other story and I
am trying to keep it short. I can smell supper cooking all ready.
Well to make it short it kinda got down to whatever religion
the King followed then that was the religion of all the people he stole from I
er mean were his subjects. I guess that is another code word to cover up the
crime cuse they are called Subjects because they were subjected to the Kings
taxes, I guess.
Since the people were his subjects he could tell them what
to do in every thing. Remember Boys
"Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Well there you
have it. It began in 1603 when James the
VI of Scotland Surrender to the King of
England [2] Which is another story for latter.
New land in America
I not sure you can call it a new land, as far as I know has
been here as long as the rest of it, I guess. To the Europeans it was a new and
uncivilized piece of unclaimed real estate. There were no taxes, all the men
did was fish and hunt all day, while the women did all the work and that was
just uncivilized. The white man thought it would be best to improve the system.
I find in interesting that the term Indian some say come from the fact that
Columbus thought he was in the east indies and thus said the people were En
Dios -With God - I find this interesting in light of the fact that part of the
conquest of the "New" world was to save the heathen Savages from
their Pagan Gods. From my study on the
subject the Native American were more Christian than those who came to save
them by beating them up with the Bible, while taking all their gold. Gold was just a pretty rock to the Native
Americans and had no value because you could not eat it. Being a good hunter was of more worth than
how many nice rocks you could collect before you died. That to is another story
to be left to another time, other than to mention that here again when religion and government get together they tend to be messing things up. [3]
Columbus
Many blame old Columbus fur the mess. There is no evidence
he was any thing else but a nose feller who went to sea to see what he could
steal for and in the name the king to make himself rich in the process like
every one else at the time. For that
matter there is little evidence I have uncovered he even knew what he had
uncovered or where he was at for that matter. Columbus did prove that something
was there and a feller could return to tell about. Before that folks thought you just might go
off out there and fall off. Well give
them a brake. You stand there and watch
those ships full of them fools go off and the ship gets smaller. It looks like
they just drop off the edge don't it.
Will they might even get hit with a storm and sink. In any case they
didn't come back.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de
Leon (1460?-1521) was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the
first European to set foot in Florida. Old Ponce on the other hand is another
matter. Wow a whole new place, but who was going to have it. What was there the kings could steal that
could help them get more than anyone else before they died.
Well the King of Portugal the King of Spain decided to go to
the Pope a settle the matter without fighting over it because it would cost a
lot of money to get in a war since there was so much the thought they would
share. Here we again have religion and government
hand in had to mess things up. The pope
decide they should splint the earth in half with Spain giving most of the new
world and the Portugal getting most of the rest and a small bit of the new world
we now know as Brazil. This did not work out to well for Portugal. When they went
in to Japan and informed the people there of the decision of the Pope that
Portugal now owned Japan. The samurai lords all said "Ah-so! You sink
so!" Well for now to keep this story short and not start a while new story-
Well
for now to keep this story short and not start a while new story- We will just
say that there were no Portuguese colonies in Japan. In
fact it went so well that the Japanese put their land off limits to those
"Stinking Europeans". Not only were they rude but
the smell bad to the Japanese who were accustom to sitting in large tubs of hot water taking
over things. Those who came from Europe thought you might get sick if you got
to near to a bar of soap and to much hot water. - Kinda like you boys.- After that any sailor who might get ship
wrecked to near to Japan and wash a shore. Well let's just say not many of them
ever came back to tell the story. Until commodore Matthew Parry of the United
of States came in 1852-53 [4]
Sides ain't that your maw a yell supper is ready. You boys
run on now and wash up. Meet me here after supper and I will finish up with how
old Ponce started all the trouble here in American.
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