Tea Party Death Squads

[Dukasaur]

Oh, those days of old!

[2dimes]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[Bernie Sanders]

Now it's the Socialists turn.

The Tea Party is so 2009

[Army of GOD]

pimpdave throwbackkk

[tzor]

Oh, those days of old!

Sometimes, I swear, I think you are being serious.

The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British propaganda print, referring to the tarring and feathering, of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party. The men also poured hot tea down Malcolm's throat; note the noose hanging on the Liberty Tree and the Stamp Act posted upside-down

A Bostonian, Captain Malcolm was a staunch supporter of royal authority. During the War of the Regulation, he traveled to the province of North Carolina to help put down the uprising. While working for the customs service, he pursued his duties with a zeal that made him unpopular. The fact that he was a loyalist during the Tea Act, the three-pence tea tax detested by the patriots did not help his reputation. In November 1773, sailors in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tarred and feathered him. Malcolm got off relatively easy in this attack, since the tar and feathers were applied while he was still fully clothed.