[tptacek]

You could use this Boston Tea Party logic for virtually any violent action no matter how dumb or counterproductive.

[whatshisface]

To be fair to the loyalists, a lot of people were making this point at the time. Tally ho, gents.

[tptacek]

It's like the "watering the tree of patriotism with the blood of centrists" or whatever the fuck it was. You probably wouldn't want to hang out with the groups of people most likely to deploy these arguments.