Abstract:
Americans love a circus. Nowhere is this more evident than in the events surrounding the antics of a small minority who recently grabbed the headlines by harking back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 when the American colonies revolted against Britain. One of the earliest revivals of the Tea Party involved 100 people meeting in Seattle to protest the stimulus bill passed by Congress to keep the United States from descending into another Great Depression. After bloggers and libertarians spread a call for protest on the internet, the media blew it into a major event.
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