The True Story Of The Boston Tea Party

In the accepted explanation of the Boston Tea Party,
the tea in the port was thrown into the sea by rebels,
rebelling against the high taxes imposed by George III,
on the British colony where those who told the story
try to present the idea that the colonised would have accepted
being an under-represented, were they charged far less tax. 

Whereas the true story was that those who threw the tea into the sea
were rebelling against both the British and the colonial authorities.
They did not want to be taxed and felt no need of representation,
before any authority, refusing even the policing of the colony.
They wanted to be the pirate-government that others would defer to,
they wanted to be the authority that taxed and subordinated others.

Pirate kings in and of  their own lawless domain.

This idea is being tested to the max with the Trump system of tariffs,
where many feel the boats, their booty, and the trade are all intact,
and have long left the harbour for other markets.