Tea (Apr. 15)

While the leaf that loves to enrich water to an incredible flavor with antioxidents and other healthy features is a wonderful thing, tea is also something that has garnered news stories on network television for a group of people that seem to want to nearly replicate one of the best events in US history, the Boston Tea Party. The whole premise of the original tea party was to protest the taxes being forced on tes imports into what would become the US. There was a serious lack of representation on behalf of those living in the Americas and as such they saw the tax as unfair. While there is certainly part of most people that are fed up with taxes in general today, the complaints of the modern day tea party are not nearly as legit as the original. Unfortunately they are represented and the new taxes that are seen today were forced upon them by those they elected, even if they did not vote for them. In this sense it is no surprise that this modern day group is being looked at by much of the world as extremists and a small faction of people who may just be crazy. Surly there are many more people that are frustrated with the current governement, they are choosing other options to voice their opinion, like the vote to come this fall. The best part of it all is that our governement allows for such movements and the day that the governement tries to squelch this tea party movement or any other movement is the day American's should truly fear.