Can you believe what those instigators did to the Patriot movement? It certainly inflamed tensions, and provoked a overly brutal and harsh response especially when everyone was otherwise completely peaceful. I just cant believe those Patriots in Boston decided to react to such overt oppression by the British Government in 1770, when they could have much easily and safely just accepted it. Didn't they think about the optics? I mean yah it is considered the first major act which led to the revolution and the birth of this country, and ultimately the freedoms and liberty which we all inherited and used to enjoy for the most part until quite recently, but we cant forget that they totally antagonized the British Soldiers guys! Can you believe they threw rocks at them and taunted them to shoot at them?