Tarred, feathered and tied to a lamppost: Justice for a drug dealer on the streets of Ulster

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | August 28, 2007 | DAN NEWLING

[ScreamingFist]

Legend! Epic and well done!

[Dysart]

Wow. That’ll learn him.

[Brujo]

... the Bishop of Halberstadt in Germany used the technique to discipline a group of misbehaving nuns.

“Misbehaving nuns”: did they show up on a “Nuns Gone Wild” video?

[Brujo]

The punishment is probably best known, however, from its widespread use in America during the War of Independence in the 1770s, when it was used to punish those accused of loyalty to the British colonial power.

The victim was usually paraded around the streets in a cart as a warning to other would-be traitors.

Since this article is written from the point of view of the British, shouldn't that be would-be loyalists?

[Joe 6-pack]

I wonder if he was dealing black tar heroin. Oh well...those eyebrows will grow back.

[uncbob]

Probably those that did the tarring and feathering had some alcohol in their blood stream

[xroadie]

You can’t tar all drug dealers with the same brush!
Maybe they should buy more brushes?

[darkangel82]

LOL!

[KyHammer]

Works for me. What happens to repeat offenders?

[ScreamingFist]

Works for me. What happens to repeat offenders?

Kneecapping?

[lowbridge]

Probably those that did the tarring and feathering had some alcohol in their blood stream

Vigilantes do not let vigilantes drink and lynch.

[rottndog]

"This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

But it's OK for the Police and the Government to fail in it's primary duties of protecting the citizenry?

[bert]

John Murtha!!! are you paying attention?

[Charlespg]

Can we do this dhimmis and members of Cair?

[montag813]

I have advocated the return of this for decades. We should drag corrupt politicians out of Congress and judges who release criminals right off the bench and tar and feather them, as we did in a far more civilized era.

[Eepsy]

Considering the time period, they were probably objecting to having their convent dissolved, their valuables confiscated, and the mass suppressed.

But then, this is the Daily Mail we’re talking about.

[river rat]

"Margaret Ritchie, Northern Ireland's social development minister, said: "This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

Bullsquat...

That is PRECISELY how a civilized society should treat criminals in their midst..

[ScreamingFist]

But it's OK for the Police and the Government to fail in it's primary duties of protecting the citizenry?

Exactly. And if the "vigilantes" are caught, they can expect the full might and power of the gov to fall on their heads, unlike the dope pusher. In other news....Dope peddling down by 80% in Belfast......:)

[Joan Kerrey]

“This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society.”

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It sure doesn’t bother me.