And we have FR threads about how afraid people are of having their car scratched for having the "wrong" bumper sticker.
Don't bother.
While this document is an exaggeration, the Snopes site is equally bad.
Snopes claims none of this document is true, but in fact many of the signers did suffer harm due to their support for the CAUSE of Indpeendence. Snopes plays a subtle word switch by saying that none of the, suffered harm for signing the document. True enough: the British didn't care anything beyond that they captured enemy combattants. That was enough. But the fact is that many were captured, killed, impoverished or mortally sickened by living up to the OATH contained in the document.
Please, people: Snopes is hard-core leftism. Do not refer people to it!