The Boston tea party

During Social Studies class, we did a seminar about the Boston Tea Party. We discussed about the reading that we were asked to do.  During our discussion, some interesting questions emerged. In order for patriots to protest against the taxation on tea, the patriots disguised themselves as Indians, they sneaked onto three British ships and threw tea overboard. One of the most interesting questions that appeared was   “ Are patriots actually terrorists?” In my personal opinion, I believe that patriots are not terrorists, they are loyal to their country and they were just trying to fight to what they think is correct. For example, in Thailand, there had been fighting going on between the Yellow shirts and the Red shirts. Both sides have different point of views about who should be the Prime Minister. The Red shirts want Thaksin Shinnawat while the Yellow shirts want Abhisit Vejjajiva to become the Prime Minister of Thailand. Both the Yellow and Red shirts fought against each other causing many injuries and problems, they have different point of views, however, what they did was because they both love their own country and they are trying to protect their country.