Posted on 08/28/2007 6:03:26 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
An alleged drug-dealer has been tarred and feathered during a paramilitary-style attack in a loyalist area of Belfast.
The alleged drug dealer was tied to a lamppost, tarred and feathered.
The attack comes at a time when the Ulster Defence Association has been warned that Government funding for loyalist-related projects will cease unless the organisation disarms and forsakes violence.
Despite the Taughmonagh estate in south Belfast, where the attack took place, having a strong UDA presence, the paramilitary organisation's advisers insisted the group was not involved.
Their denial was disputed by nationalist politicians and the cross-community Alliance Party.
Frankie Gallagher, of the Ulster Political Research Group, claimed: "The UDA told the local community to go to the police about this. The community responded in the way it did because it had no confidence in the police."Police were given information but failed to intervene, Mr Gallagher claimed.
The degrading punishment, reminiscent of IRA-style retribution, was condemned by politicians across the parties.
The victim was tied to a lamppost as masked men poured tar over him then covered him in feathers as women and children looked on.
A placard around his neck declared: "I'm a drug dealing scumbag."
The attack, on Sunday, came amid growing pressure on the UDA to abandon all violence and give up its guns.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Some pictures here....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887938/posts
Good show!!
I’d say he got off pretty easy considering what might have happened to him.
How hot is the tar, I wonder. I’ve always wondered exactly how injurious this procedure is. Is it just “degrading” and sticky? Or is it burning hot tar that does permanent damage?
“G-D D*amn, the pusher!” John Kay - Steppenwolf, “The Pusher’, 1969
How ‘bout them Scotch-Irish ?
From what I have found on the Internet, tar fully melts at about 200 degrees. I would suggest that putting something on the skin at 200 degrees would cause 3rd degree burns. 3rd degree burns are the worst. 3rd degree means that the burn has worked its way through all three layers of skin. Only good side … least painful, at first, because it has burned all nerves at the burn location. Secondary burns of the 1st and 2nd degree nature around the 3rd degree burn will be very painful.
Gasoline, lighter fluid...
And an open flame!
the amazing thing is that this is seen as a bad thing....
It may not have been hot at all. I get 5-gallon buckets of cold-process roof coating at Lowe's.
Tar comes off easily when W-D 40 is sprayed on it.
(Done this after getting tar on myself while repairing the roof...)
Mayhap you are right … no mention of burns or other problems that would require a stay in Hospital.
What do you mean? You mean you’ve never heard of people smugggling corn across the border or killing someone over their sugarcane territory?
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