That's what's wrong with America. I have heard the term decades ago to discribe some event in Boston. Had something to do with taxes and independence.
Maybe with a little research you can find information about that even in American history books, otherwise these new things called the interwebs (or something like that) might help.
"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."
Obviously (or so I had thought) I was referencing the terms use in modern politics and the first time we had heard it in that context.
