On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to send back three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and threw all the tea over board into the bottom of the Boston Harbor. This act, along with other events in our American history, was very instrumental in leading our country down the road to declare it's independence over British rule, and eventually the revolutionary war.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America, against the Tea Act, which was passed by the British government in 1773.
Although it is not about tea anymore, but the modern day "Tea Party Movement" certainly has very striking similarities.
It is a group of American citizens, from all over this country, coming together to stand for the constitution of the United States. Not the constitution of some small judges or a few government leaders, who have decided that they don't want a government for the people and by the people, they want a government for them and by them. They want to dictate to you and me, what you do, when and where you will do it, and by what means you will do it.
53 years ago, Premier Nikita Khrushchev, of the then, "Soviet Union", said to all America,