The Patriots' Brutal Terror Tactics

They often used very dramatic techniques. Tar and feathering, for instance. This is a,

a great way to humiliate people. First, you're stripped naked.

The bucket of tar is heated and you're coated with tar, and then they put these feathers,

these goose feathers all over you and you're all hot and you're prancing about like a silly

goose. After a display like this, how is this person going to publicly

oppose the patriot position? A loyalist printer in New York City, uh,

publishes a loyalist newspaper and they come in and smash his printing press, while they are also

proclaiming free speech as a principle to fight for. That's the nature of war and the nature