One thing I’d like to see cross the pond

A bucket a bag and a will

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

Tied to a lamppost, he stands with his head and upper body covered in tar and feathers. A makeshift placard hung around his neck with a piece of string announces the reason for his treatment.

It is a very public humiliation, and a medieval one. Almost ten years since Northern Ireland’s Troubles officially ended, this remains the crude face of justice on the streets of south Belfast.
This man was subjected to the painful tarring and feathering on the Taughmonagh estate, a loyalist stronghold in the city.

Locals had accused the victim, who is in his thirties, of being a drug dealer. And when police allegedly did not act, they took the law into their own hands.

Two masked men tied up the accused victim, poured tar over his head and then covered him in white feathers, apparently from a pillow case.

A small crowd including women and children looked on as the men then adorned their victim with a placard reading: “I’m a drug dealing scumbag”.

Pictures of the punishment were sent to a local newspaper.

I understand that Sebastian of the blog Pro-Gun Progressive is having these issues. And if you click here, you’ll read his recent entry about how he found a gallon bucket of Sulfuric Acid set in a spot where his local baddies were most likely planning to ambush him with it because of his activities trying to get them run out of the neighborhood.

Since I think he is too kind to just string them over a lamppost adorned with a similar sign via a rope attached to their neck, this may be something he and/or his neighbors could go with?