Hope the nazis marching in Boston packed a lunch

[bigtree]

Shannon Dooling? @sdooling 11m11 minutes ago
Spotted outside of Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, Harvard Sq. in #CambMA ahead of today's so-called #BostonFreeSpeechRally.

[Not Ruth]

1. Wonder if the Nazis will do that tea party thing

There is a tourist attraction where you can pay to throw tea in the water.

[egold2604]

7. The Boston Tea Party helped the founding father tea smugglers

Some things stay the same. The Crown mandated that all tea sold in the colonies bear a royal stamp. Most of the Boston based founding fathers were tea smugglers who bought their tea in Holland and smuggled it in. Turns out the Crown then set the price of the legal tea below what the smugglers purchased the tea for in Holland so the smugglers lost money on each load and would be driven out of business eventually.

The "patriotic" smugglers then riled up the masses about taxation without representation, etc, dressed up like native Americans and tossed a load of tea into the Boston Harbor. Neat huh?

[vicman]

12. Are you trolling...

or are you just happy to see me?

[LakeArenal]

14. Don't ya love it when they try to edjamacate you?

Thanks for the 4th grade history lesson, right?

[Maraya1969]

31. So wait. I never heard about the smugglers or Native Americans in history lessons

Have I actually been edjamacated or was that poster all wrong.


PS - love saying the word Edjamacate

[edhopper]

16. Not that cut and dry

As Europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century, rival companies were formed to import the product from China.[3] In England, Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea in 1698.[4] When tea became popular in the British colonies, Parliament sought to eliminate foreign competition by passing an act in 1721 that required colonists to import their tea only from Great Britain.[5] The East India Company did not export tea to the colonies; by law, the company was required to sell its tea wholesale at auctions in England. British firms bought this tea and exported it to the colonies, where they resold it to merchants in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston.[6]

Until 1767, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.[7] Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into the Dutch Republic was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.[8] The biggest market for illicit tea was England—by the 1760s the East India Company was losing £400,000 per year to smugglers in Great Britain[9]—but Dutch tea was also smuggled into British America in significant quantities.[10]

In 1767, to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.[11] To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.[12] Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies.

It was about taxation without representation.

[Raster]

29. There you go again with those fact-a-mundos...

...

[sheshe2]

2. Lol

I love Boston!

[LakeArenal]

15. Birthplace of.......

ME! Boston and I thank you for the good thoughts.

[yuiyoshida]

32. Cool place

Reminded alot of San Francisco

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[sandensea]

4. I hope they do march wherever they may be - and that plenty of photos are taken.

That'll expose more of these cretins than years of FBI investigations could hope to uncover.

[rickford66]

18. Close up photos of each and every Nazi should be posted on social media.

[luvtheGWN]

19. Maybe they'll start wearing their hoods again.....

[broadcaster90210]

21. Fortunately, wearing a mask in public is illegal in most states.

Except for Halloween etc of course.

[sarge43]

5. Every business in Boston should do that. n/t

[Kogaratsu72]

6. That

Are some mighty brass balls on display! Respect!

[Ilsa]

9. Sometimes it only takes one to show courage and leadership.

I bet others will follow.

Give them the "lunchcounter" treatment that others endured.

[33taw]

10. Great - hope the trend continues

[gldstwmn]

11. They have a Mike Pence burger

that's "way right and way wrong." Funny.

[DFW]

41. What is a Mike Penceburger?

Sounds like two halves of a stale bun with nothing inside.

[jmowreader]

42. Bacon, American cheese, grilled onions and jalapenos

http://www.mrbartley.com/mrbartleys-menu.html

I don't think I'd want to eat at this place...their burgers, complete with editorial comments, are:

Mike Pence (way right and way wrong)
Tom Brady "Triumphant"
Caitlyn Jenner "You Go Girl"
Beyonce "Hot!"
Legalize It (now tax the hell out of it)
Viagra (rise to the occasion!)
Julian Edelman (he loved this) (he's a wide receiver for the Patriots)
Taxachu$ett$
Triple-D (his establishment was on Guy Fieri's show)
David Price (Red Sox pitcher) (
Car Talk "The Pride of Our Fair City"
John "Solly" Solomon (GREAT GUY!) (he owns a bar in the Bay Area)
Gay Marriage (they can't be worse at it)
MBTA (Most Broken Transit Authority)
Liz Warren ("Screeching Squaw&quot
Iphone (Siriously delicious...ask her)
Casey Affleck (Wicked good)
Trump Tower (It's Yuuge, believe me)
Cuba (no editorial comment, for some reason)
Kim Jong-Un (he's crazier than Trump)
Cambridge Kooks "LOL"
Mass Health (Unhealthy)
Bernie Sanders (Socially unacceptable)
Snoop Dogg (no comment, also not a "dogg&quot
Melania Trump (for president 2024) (apparently they don't teach the Constitution in MA public schools...)
Mrs. B (the queen of burgers)

How does a right-wing burger joint stay open next door to Harvard?

[DFW]

43. For that matter......

How does Harvard admit people like Cruz and W?

I guess that's the kind of people they are looking for these days. One of my grandfathers went there over 100 years ago. The son of an impoverished tailor from South Carolina, he worked his way through Harvard as a janitor. Obviously, they aren't looking for people like that any more.

[madinmaryland]

44. AKA a shit burger. Yeah that's the meat.

[DFW]

45. "Where's The Beef?"

"Son, I promise you, you don't want to hear the answer to that."

[stonecutter357]

13. K&R

[MrPurple]

17. Nice sentiment, but that Burger place is acorss the river from the protests in Harvard Sq.

[Brother Buzz]

22. Ah, but the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe is just up the street off Harvard Sq

And some of these Yahoo Nazis just might be looking for some fine legal representation

[tymorial]

25. Indeed!

I used to listen to car talk all the time.

[Brother Buzz]

36. Out on the West Coast, we still enjoy reruns (although they will pull the plug in September)

And once in a blue moon, I hear a new puzzler.

I understand Tappet Brothers LLC gave up their Harvard Square lease after they stopped doing live shows, but the famous window will live on in perpetuity (under penalty of death, or some Boilerplate in the lease contract, the new tenants will leave the gilded letters unmolested).

[paleotn]

20. Deny them water, fire, shelter and food...

....for a distance of many miles. The old Roman punishment of banishment.

[Blue Idaho]

28. Starve them out of town.

Remember an army marches on its stomach.

[lunasun]

37. Ostracism has worked in societies for ages. Ancient Athenians kicked a tyrannical family out and

Ostracism helped to diffuse threats to thier evolving democracy .

They are free to speak and assemble there which is more than other hideous groups may be allowed to do, but the Nazis can't make people like them or help them
Imagine a pro ISIS rally, but some things must be shunned and rejected

[cwydro]

23. K and r. nt

[Sneederbunk]

24. Maybe they can roast wieners with their Tiki torches.

[TNNurse]

27. I am sure the citronella will add a special touch to any hot dog.

But I wonder if they buy Hebrew National...that is what we eat???

[Roland99]

26. How long til the snowflakes equivocate this with not serving LGBTQ clientele....

[Blue Idaho]

30. Just close the restaurant

Then there is no claim of discrimination.

[Cal Carpenter]

40. Being a racist asshole isn't a protected class.

Privately owned businesses can refuse to serve people for almost any reason.

Through civil rights legislation, people cannot be refused service specifically on the basis of their race, national origin, gender, age, disability, (in some places) sexual orientation and a few other things.

But otherwise, I can kick anyone out of my business that I want to. If someone comes in with a swastika tattoo or a white power t-shirt, I can happily and proudly tell them to get the fuck out - they aren't welcome here and I have no obligation to serve them.

Unless Trump signed some executive order that I missed, nazis, fascists and other racists aren't a protected class.

[Blue Idaho]

46. Cool!

I like your answer better!

[lunasun]

33. Glad to see good and decency chosen over profit

[Blue Owl]

34. White bread and baloney

The official Nazi lunch

[DinahMoeHum]

35. Or better yet, packed a toothbrush and toothpaste. . .

. . .'cause chances are, they won't be sleeping in a comfy bed tonight (hint hint)

[smirkymonkey]

38. I'm proud of my city!

[JDC]

39. The next time I am in Cambridge I am going here

[BigmanPigman]

47. I can'tl imagine what a Nazi or KKK diet consists of...

wurst and kraut with white bread or puppies and kittens.

[shenmue]

48. Humans

[BigmanPigman]

49. I was going to write that but was a fraud someone would like

get me suspended from DU. Thanks for doing it!