Sons of Liberty activists boarded the Dartmouth, a British ship that had docked in Boston carrying a major shipment of East India Company tea, and set about throwing 342 chests of the tea into Boston Harbor.
I didn't mention them at all.
Then, in your analogy, who's home was "broken in to" and who's property was "thrown in the rain to be destroyed?"
You mentioned them analogously, clearly.
But fine, it's technically not peaceful to resist the world's largest regime by salting their tea, I suppose.