No. This video is misinformed at best and deceitful at worst. Now the Young Turks are trying to interpret history how they want to. History should not be read in light of current political feelings, by either side. It needs to be read as it happened.

When tea became popular in the colonies in the early 18th century, British Parliament passed a law in 1721 saying that the colonies had to import their tea only from Great Britain. The East India company never sold to the colonies; it sold wholesale auction in Britain which was then later imported by various merchant middlemen.

Since the British were taxing the East India company about 25% for their tea, plus additional taxes on tea for consumption, and the Dutch weren't taxing their companies any, a huge pastime in both England and the colonies was buying smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices. The East India company was losing big money.

In 1767 Parliament passed the Indemnity Act to help the East India company compete with smugglers. This lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain and gave the company a refund of the 25% duty of tea that was re-exported to the colonies. Of course, this meant a loss of revenue for Parliament, so they also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, on the colonies.

Don't forget that the British Empire was in massive debt following the Seven Year's War (1756-1763). You have the 1765 Stamp Act, which was a tax just on the colonies requiring most things on printed paper to use taxed or "stamped" paper purchased at a premium from Britian. You also have the Sugar Act of 1764, which was, again, a tax imposed only on the colonies. Then the Revenue Act of 1766. Add all of this on top of the fact that the colonies were in a big economic turmoil following the war, and that each of these added fuel to the fire of the "no taxation without representation" debate and you get a bunch of pissed off colonists, probably for a whole host of reasons.

The colonies were viewed as nothing more than a source of revenue for the 'grand' ideas of the British Empire.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'abc, cia, missionary, plane, surveillance, spy, intercept, peru, smuggler, mistake' to 'abc, cia, missionary, bowers, plane, surveillance, spy, intercept, peru, smuggler, mistake' - edited by calvados

^This is unfortunate. However Until more is told of this case, it may be that she really is innocent, cases where innocent passengers do not know there luggage is tampered with. I can think of many ways of trying to smuggle something using someone who has no idea...

Helps remove the risk to the real smuggler, if could he loses just the money, not his or her head.

Just sayin' - I don't always like to be the ever mindful optimist - and greed does get the better of some, but it's not always cut and dried (pun intended)

http://wcbstv.com/local/jfk.airport.drug.2.375457.html
As as an example.

Although if it's just her, she was either very unlucky. Or greedy.
Oh, and don't druggle smugs!

Read "Mr Nice Guy" by howard marks.. mostly unrelated book although informative... he mentions drug trafficking in pakistan.. and bhutto... around 1988... something..really small few sentences in the book, but somethng only a hash smuggler would know... related to being willing to deal with the CIA.. her murder seems organized by her husband and his bodyguard all these years later. Wierd stuff. rung a bell.

I'm certain I don't know at all what you are hinting at.. *cough cough*

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*cough*...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bob-Fett-cuts-loose-Robot-Chicken
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hilarious-Steven-Segal-one-liner

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
You dirty little smuggler..

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Atheist-Delusion-1

*cough*...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bob-Fett-cuts-loose-Robot-Chicken
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hilarious-Steven-Segal-one-liner

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
You dirty little smuggler..

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Atheist-Delusion-1

You dirty little smuggler... lol

I love robot chicken.

Here is Part 1 if anyone is interested: http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smuggler

This video has a sequel if anyone likes: http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smugglers-2

Thanks for the 10th vote on TP Smuggler, I thought you might enjoy the sequel as well: http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smugglers-2

You voted for a video I posted called http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smuggler I thought you might enjoy the sequel: http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smugglers-2

You voted for a video I posted called http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smuggler I thought you might enjoy the sequel: http://www.videosift.com/video/TP-Smugglers-2

So she is worried that there are people who will think that is really her and that is how she lives her life?
If there is someone that stupid (and if you have seen part of the video, you really need to be abysmally stupid), then they are beyond help.

If you think that really is Sarah Palin, in all likelihood you also think that Harrison Ford was really an interplanetary smuggler, who at one point found the Holy Grail in the 1950s while being an archeology professor.

Just curious, why the *discard and attempted *kill on this old ST post?

In reply to this comment by gourmetemu:
*discard

Budgie smuggler