We’re coming up on Repeal Day (Dec. 5), one of the greatest days of the year for Bourbon enthusiasts. To demonstrate the fervor with which the temperance movement approached Prohibition, ProhibitionRepeal.com reports that some felt those who drank alcoholic beverages should be:
poisoned by alcohol beverages sold through bootleggers (proponents acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition)
hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
excluded from any and all churches
forbidden to marry
tortured
branded
whipped
sterilized
tattooed
placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares
forced to swallow two ounces of castor oil
executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.
