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Article: Today's Drug Import Controversy Reminiscent of Boston Tea Party; Canada Pharmacy Express Joins Cross-Border Drug Revolution.
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- February 27, 2003
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by Canada Pharmacy Express:
In 1773, a group of Boston citizens, motivated by patriot Samuel Adams, protesting a punitive British tax on tea imported to the colonies, carried out one of the most effective pieces of political theater ever staged -- the Boston Tea Party.
John Adams wrote of the protest: "There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire."
British Parliament had repealed almost all import taxes but enforced the tax on tea as a demonstration of its power over the new American ...