Tea Parties

Sorry to be a tea crazy person, but reading "The Recovery of the Tea Party" by  Alfred Young, he states that "Calling the historic event a 'tea party' made it into child's play."
Words are something that I find extremely important.  They influence life and choices, they can be used as propaganda or used to be completely honest and genuine.
To call the events in Boston, a Tea Party, really emphasizes the disconnect between our ideals of the British at that time, and the ideal of the British after the event.  The Event in Boston was not called the Tea Party for many years after its occurrence.
Basically, I'm saying that it's interesting to note that as we became more established as our American culture we start to gather names for events and these names reflect the feelings we have for these events.  It's never random.
To call it a tea party, makes the event not sound unimportant, but it makes the conflict sound like it didn't matter; or was stupid to have in the first place.  It makes it sound like we knew that we were completely right, when that wasn't the case at all.

Also, it's kind of ironic that we have a new movement called "The Tea Party" when that was used to mock the opposing side.  Interesting...