Amid the recent \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests in downtown Chicago were three counter-protesters belonging to the Societie of Loyale British Subjekts, founded in 1772 to counter the influence of the Sons of Liberty. The three demonstrators marched with signs bearing the messages \u201cOlive Branche Petition Nowe,\u201d \u201cCrush the Perfidious Traitores,\u201d and \u201cIf It Weren\u2019t for Samuel Adams I\u2019d be Drinking Tea Right Now\u201d while singing \u201cGod Save the King.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked to explain the Societie\u2019s political principles, chapter leader Thomas Galloway responded, \u201cWe believe that the American founding wast an act of treason against our most benevolent and gracious monarch, King George III. We hope that a reunion with the Mother Country will allow dear old England to forgive us poor colonists for calling King George a tyrant and for refusing to switcheth to the metric system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Societie\u2019s informational leaflet, which Galloway himself painstakingly typeset, the Societie boasts just under 25 members spread throughout the United States, or, as the Societie calls it, \u201cthe Most Unhapp\u2019ly Treasonous Colonies Always and Forever of HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ENGLAND.\u201d Their recent projects include sponsoring a water fountain in honor of King George in a small public park in Pikeville, Kentucky and lobbying (unsuccessfully) for Thesaurus.com to take \u201cBenedict Arnold\u201d off of its list of synonyms for \u201ctraitor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asked to explain the Societie\u2019s political principles, chapter leader Thomas Galloway responded, \u201cWe believe that the American founding wast an act of treason against our most benevolent and gracious monarch, King George III. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}