More signs of the Idiocracy

I am but a product of public education--which, to belabor the point, is publicly financed, i.e., paid for by taxes of various sorts. One thing that I learned in public school was that the Boston Tea Party (a) was inspired by taxes on actual tea and (b) entailed throwing the oppressor's tea into the harbor. It follows that staging a tea[-dumping] party in protest, in absence of especially the second aspect of the original, is idiotic.