At 06:56 PM 6/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: >... but do you really >believe that John Hancock was primarily motivated by a desire for profit, as >this insinuates? Yes, I truly believe that. >Do you really believe that the "Indians" tossed the tea >overboard only because of a desire for profit for smugglers? Not at all. Samuel Adams had finally found something at which he could succeed (after numerous failures at other endeavors), propagandist. Those tossing the tea would have been led to see matters as a matter of pride or honor. Sam was very, very good, at something for the first time in his entire life. John Robertson