At what point does taring and feathering your fellow citizens who disagree with you become acceptable behavior?
>>2780590
When they are agents of an oppressive regime and you're not quite ready for actual warfare yet because you're still giving that regime time to self-correct but you absolutely MUST discredit their local agents.
>>2780590
When you're American
Also, a very based modern corollary
>regime captures your soldier
>they're gonna whip him publicly
>no one whips /our guys/ but us!
>threaten to whip the regimes guys
>tit for tat
>they whip our guy
>actually kidnap and whip their guys
ABSOLUTE MADMEN
When they support a tyranny you want to rid yourself of.
>>2780648
Private citizens were not subjected to tar and feathers. It was tax collectors and official representatives of the British Monarchy.