Most of the US founding fathers were smugglers.
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CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoDidn’t the boston tea party start because they lowered the price of legally imported (and thus taxed) tea, undermining smugglers?
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sell drugs, run guns, nail sluts, and fuck the law
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yes, but it was also a grudge match between rivals. In one connected incident a locally-owned ship was burnt to the waterline to take out a competitor.
The tea party was hugely damaging to the rebel cause, and leadership was furious. It’s only several decades later that it was recast as an act of rebellion against the crown.