Anti-Trump Mayor Taunts Lock-Down Protesters and Laid Off Workers While His Business Is Open

Right Journalism ^ | 05.09.2020 | Alex D.

[USA Conservative]

He owns a business AND he receives the perk$ from the tax payers. Boycott his business and vote him out. If he wins the next election then Normal really is Abnormal and gets what they deserve.

[Dawgreg]

He owns a business AND he receives the perk$ from the tax payers. Boycott his business and vote him out. If he wins the next election then Normal really is Abnormal and gets what they deserve.

PO’s me that my tax dollars went to a motard like that. I’m just hoping that even the ignorant around us that vote will see the problems in the Demonrat-run cities and states and will vote the bums out in November!!

[Bob434]

Maybe Barr can investigate this fella?

[antidemoncrat]

More tyranny of government.

[Crim]

Tar and feathers

[Paine in the Neck]

The Chastisement of John Malcolm

In 1774, John Malcolm was a Crown customs collector, based in Boston. At that time Boston had had five years of civic tension culminating in the Boston Massacre. Malcolm, like most Crown representatives didn't much like the Bostonians and harboured smouldering resentment against the uppity locals who had been resisting Crown authority since the Stamp Act in 1768. They made his job difficult. Malcolm had more reason than most to hold a grudge against the colonists. He had only recently had a run-in with the good people of Portland, Maine on a customs matter over which they had disagreed. The Portland folks saw fit to tar and feather Malcolm but were kind enough to allow him to remain clothed for the treatment. Being a prideful man who was impressed by his own authority, this didn't sit well.

In the snow covered streets of Boston in January, Malcolm was run over by a boy sledding in the street. Malcolm, his temper getting the best of him, raised his cane to strike the boy. George Hewes, a local shoemaker, intervened and Malcolm turned on Hewes. At first, Malcolm tried to overawe Hewes with his social rank - being a gentleman and, in Malcolm's mind, a hero of the French and Indian War. Hewes took the vituperation of Malcolm with a grain of salt and retorted "Be that as it may, I was never tarred and feathered." That was the match to Malcolm's tinder and he flew at Hewes and struck him a near fatal blow to the head with his cane.

The town of Boston was already electric with tension between the locals and Crown representatives and word of this attack spread almost instantly. A crowd gathered at Malcolm's house while he shouted out a window, relishing baiting the crowd into an uproar, and flourishing with his sword, eventually stabbing one man in the chest.

The crowd swarmed the house, forcing Malcolm to retreat to the second floor. Malcolm was eventually disarmed and the crowd seized him, tied him, put him on a sled and dragged him through the town as brickbats rained upon him.

After pulling him by the wharfs to pick up a barrel of tar, the mob took him to King St, by the Town House, where political rallies were customarily held and where the Massacre had occurred.

In the chill of the coldest night of a Boston January Malcolm was stripped, dislocating his arm, and hot tar daubed on his bare skin, burning his flesh.

Feathers then were applied to give what was then called the "modern jacket". Malcolm was then paraded, both burned and freezing, from one end of the town to the other and back. At the Liberty Tree they threw a noose around his neck and threatened to hang him if he didn't denounce the Governor and the Customs Commissioners. He refused but they didn't hang him. Instead they paraded him back to the far end of town again, eventually rolling him out of the cart at his home "like a log."

Malcolm wasn't the first or last to suffer from the people's anger. In the time before Concord and Lexington many Crown representatives as well as colonists in government positions suffered their houses to be ransacked, demolished or fired and their persons to be insulted most cruelly. Soon, the British Regulars - the Redcoats - the Crown's SWAT teams of the time - which had been withdrawn after the Boston Massacre in an attempt to calm matters were returned in force and Boston was placed under martial law.

[SunkenCiv]

[redacted portion, followed by] but I mean that in the nicest possible way.

[reg45]

Normal, Illinois: College town, run by Democrats.

[ronnie raygun]

Drag his a## out in the street face to face, punk

[NonValueAdded]

I declare tar, pitchfork, and feather stores essential. Rails too.

[tallyhoe]

Me thinks these butt wipes need to have their pay withheld until the businesses are open!!

[tom paine 2]

no lamp post and rope.

[Jim W N]

Mayor of "Normal", IL?!

Pretty abnormal to me.

He's been mayor for almost 20 years which says a lot about his career politics and hating individual freedom and Trump.

[jonascord]

"What this mayor is doing is almost as outrageous as the fact that nobody in his town will do anything about it. "

Do WHAT? Inflicting THE THING buys you life without parole in Marion. And knowing that he is proofed against THE THING is the only reason he can lock up the town, with his private Brute Squad.

[Oldexpat]

A real Shiite hole of a town.

[GreyHoundSailor]

Those are some mighty large windows in that shop of his.

[apoliticalone]

I heard someone in conservative media say every decision making public official in local, state and federal govt should lose their compensation until business can reopen.

[Bob434]

calling me a punk because i think barr should bring charges against him for constitutional violations? whatever-

[JerseyDvl]

The only thing people can do is vote these tyrants out.

[meyer]

That’s not the ONLY thing people can do...