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Tea Party mom wins $1.12M for false prosecution | New York …

A Long Island mother of three arrested for taking pictures of an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons while armed to the teeth with a licensed assault rifle in her car has been awarded $1.12 million by a federal jury over her false prosecution by Suffolk County authorities.

The Central Islip jury on Thursday sided with Nancy Genovese, 58, in a 2010 lawsuit she filed against Suffolk County, its Sheriffs Office and other parties, claiming she was only arrested during the July 2009 incident because she belonged to the Tea Party.

Genovese was arrested while taking pictures of a decorative helicopter in front of the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach for a Support Our Troops website. She was charged with criminal trespass and spent four days in jail before the charges were dropped.

Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, I bet you are one of those Tea Party people. When Genovese said shes gone to Tea Party rallies, he allegedly said, Youre a real right-winger, arent you? and You are a Teabagger and then added that shed be arrested for terrorism to make an example of other right wingers.

Ms. Genovese was subjected to a level of abuse because [authorities] did not share the same political views as she did and saw this as an excuse to deny her even the most basic civil rights, her lawyer Frederick Brewington said.

Genovese said in a statement said she was relieved by the jurys verdict. She added, if this can happen to me, and officers can abuse their power like this, I can only imagine how other people who are not as fortunate as me have been treated.

Messages left with Suffolk County and the Sheriffs Office were not immediately returned.

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Boston Tea Party and Modern Tea Party: Not All About Taxes

TIME History politics Then as Now, the Tea Party Proved Divisive Artist's rendering of the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773. MPI / Getty Images Dec. 16, 1773: Colonial activists dump 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act

Members of todays Tea Party movement embrace as kindred spirits the colonists who turned Boston Harbor into a teapot 241 years ago. And while its true that both groups formed around a robust opposition to the government in power and an equally vigorous objection to the taxes it levied, it would be a mistake to say that the Boston Tea Party was triggered by a tax hike.

On this evening, Dec. 16, in 1773, dozens of colonists boarded three ships laden with East India Company tea and dumped the entire stock 45 tons of tea, worth roughly $1 million in todays economy into the harbor to protest Parliaments recent Tea Act. The act, however, didnt increase taxes: It lowered the price of tea by allowing the struggling East India Company to sell directly to colonists without first stopping in England. This cut out colonial middlemen and essentially gave the company a monopoly on tea sales.

So, although organizers of the original tea party echoed the popular refrain of No taxation without representation, many were motivated by a personal interest that continues to motivate 241 years later: profit. Bostons wealthy merchants, some of whom made a fortune smuggling Dutch tea, stood to lose big when the Tea Act was passed. John Hancock, one of the main agitators behind the tea party, was among them.

Ahough the Boston Tea Party has become synonymous with patriotism, not all of early Americas top patriots were on board. The protest appalled many colonists with its destructiveness and waste, according to Harlow Unger, the author of American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. Far from uniting colonists, the Tea Party had alienated many property owners, who held private property to be sacrosanct and did not tolerate its destruction or violation, Unger wrote.

Ben Franklin suggested to Hancock and co-agitator Samuel Adams that they reimburse the East India Company for the lost tea. He wrote, in a letter from London shortly after the protest, I am truly concernd, as I believe all considerate Men are with you, that there should seem to any a Necessity for carrying Matters to such Extremity, as, in a Dispute about Publick Rights, to destroy private Property.

George Washington was similarly disapproving. His take on the Boston Tea Party clashes with the modern-day tea partys more reverent view and with their claim to channel the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

When a contemporary Tea Partier, on a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, brought up the topic with a historical interpreter dressed as Washington, he was surprised by the answer, according to a 2010 Washington Post story. Asked whether the Boston Tea Party had helped rally the patriots, Washington disagreed with force, the Post reported. The tea party should never have occurred, he said. Its hurt our cause, sir.

Read more about the modern Tea Party here, in TIMEs archives: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters

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Then as Now, the Tea Party Proved Divisive

TIME History politics Then as Now, the Tea Party Proved Divisive Artist's rendering of the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773. MPI / Getty Images Dec. 16, 1773: Colonial activists dump 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act

Members of todays Tea Party movement embrace as kindred spirits the colonists who turned Boston Harbor into a teapot 241 years ago. And while its true that both groups formed around a robust opposition to the government in power and an equally vigorous objection to the taxes it levied, it would be a mistake to say that the Boston Tea Party was triggered by a tax hike.

On this evening, Dec. 16, in 1773, dozens of colonists boarded three ships laden with East India Company tea and dumped the entire stock 45 tons of tea, worth roughly $1 million in todays economy into the harbor to protest Parliaments recent Tea Act. The act, however, didnt increase taxes: It lowered the price of tea by allowing the struggling East India Company to sell directly to colonists without first stopping in England. This cut out colonial middlemen and essentially gave the company a monopoly on tea sales.

So, although organizers of the original tea party echoed the popular refrain of No taxation without representation, many were motivated by a personal interest that continues to motivate 241 years later: profit. Bostons wealthy merchants, some of whom made a fortune smuggling Dutch tea, stood to lose big when the Tea Act was passed. John Hancock, one of the main agitators behind the tea party, was among them.

Ahough the Boston Tea Party has become synonymous with patriotism, not all of early Americas top patriots were on board. The protest appalled many colonists with its destructiveness and waste, according to Harlow Unger, the author of American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. Far from uniting colonists, the Tea Party had alienated many property owners, who held private property to be sacrosanct and did not tolerate its destruction or violation, Unger wrote.

Ben Franklin suggested to Hancock and co-agitator Samuel Adams that they reimburse the East India Company for the lost tea. He wrote, in a letter from London shortly after the protest, I am truly concernd, as I believe all considerate Men are with you, that there should seem to any a Necessity for carrying Matters to such Extremity, as, in a Dispute about Publick Rights, to destroy private Property.

George Washington was similarly disapproving. His take on the Boston Tea Party clashes with the modern-day tea partys more reverent view and with their claim to channel the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

When a contemporary Tea Partier, on a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, brought up the topic with a historical interpreter dressed as Washington, he was surprised by the answer, according to a 2010 Washington Post story. Asked whether the Boston Tea Party had helped rally the patriots, Washington disagreed with force, the Post reported. The tea party should never have occurred, he said. Its hurt our cause, sir.

Read more about the modern Tea Party here, in TIMEs archives: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters

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16 December 1773: The Boston Tea Party protest

The Boston Tea Party saw 600,000 pounds of tea thrown into the sea

Few people would have guessed that throwing crates of tea off a ship would lead to one of the biggest revolutions in history. Yet, on this day in 1773 a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty carried out the Boston Tea Party protest and paved the way for the American Revolution.

The group, dressed as Native Americans and led by Samuel Adams, an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector, boarded the ship and destroyed 2,000 chests, containing 600,000lbof tea, by throwing them into the sea. The tea belonged to the powerful and influential East India Company.

The spark for the protest was the Tea Act of May 1773. The new law forced the 13 American colonies to buy their tea from the East India Company. The Company was in dire financial straits and had much more tea stored in its British warehouses than it was able to sell.

Techincally, the Tea Actwas not a tax. But itdid give the East India Company such a total monopoly that many, including Adams and the Sons of Liberty, viewed it as one.

Their slogan was no taxation without representation.

The Tea Party was a spark for revolution, and the British provided most of the fuel. Their response was harsh. Parliament in London passed laws in 1774 known as the Coercive Acts that ended local self-rule in Massachusetts and entirely closed the Port of Boston.

As a result of the Coercive Acts, more and more acts of defiance sprang up across the 13 colonies. The cycle of escalation continued until both sides were at war. By 1778 the situation had got so out of hand that parliament passed the Taxation of the Colonies Act 1778, which repelled the Tea Tax as well as others.

Butit was all too little too late. Ten years after the Boston Tea Party protest, in 1783, the guns of war fell silent and the colonies becamefully independent. Samuel Adams became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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