Being a Tea Party supporter like being a terrorist party supporter?

Come on, everyone should know the history. So called Patriots stormed 3 ships of the British East India Company and tossed the tea into Boston Harbor rather than pay the Crown tax on it. How was that not a terrorist act? And when it culminated into war (against the sitting government) how were those “patriots” not terrorist? How was that act of government defiance any different or more noble than what Castro, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Iatola Khomeini, or any other persons or groups who did not like the sitting government and tried to overthrow it or did? To align oneself with people who committed a terrorist act to inflict hurt on the legal government of the day is kind if hypocritical isn’t it? And before a bunch of Tea Partiers try to say “well those governments were this and that” they were the sitting government. Whether or not they were right, wrong or something else is all open to debate on if you are a supporter or insurgent against it.