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]

Belfast remains a lawless place, where armed sectarian gangs do their will against an impotent police force.I doubt this guy was savaged by members of the city’s largely cowed citizenry. More likely, he was attacked by rival gang members. It’s about turf, not about fighting drugs

Actually, rival gangs would have blown his head off and dumped his body in a burning dumpster. Or do you suggest this is the new kinder, gentler gang warfare?

[hosepipe]

Compton, California... ARE you watching?..
Los Angeles, East L.A., Detroit, Seattle, Boston...

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

The only difference: in this country, MS-13 et al carry heavy arms and kill without a second thought.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This man was subjected to the painful tarring and feathering...

[ScreamingFist]

So what do you suggest?

[hosepipe]

[.. The only difference: in this country, MS-13 et al carry heavy arms and kill without a second thought. ..]

Pitting one gang against another would be better..
i.e. Vigilante drive bys dressed in gang costumes/colors....

[Stonewall Jackson]

FYI.

[Conservative4Ever]

Ahhhhhh....street justice. Makes me smile.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

First we need to target one (drug) gang and show no mercy. My choice would be MS-13. We need a national law that defines membership in MS-13 as equivalent to being a terrorist. I would be in favor of execution within 24 hours.

[A message]

Works for me. What happens to repeat offenders?

Draw and quarter.

[Clemenza]

And in 1623, the Bishop of Halberstadt in Germany used the technique to discipline a group of misbehaving nuns.

"I want that problem like Maria taken care of Mother Superior!"

[sobieski]

Love how they called Catholics Terrorists; what about their own?

[lowbridge]

You can’t tar all drug dealers with the same brush!

What do you want us to do? Feather their nest?

[Nate505]

I find it curious that people who cheer this action consider themselves to be law and order types.

[Nate505]

Here the drug dealers are just as armed as the rest of the populace. You’ll probably see the homicide rate skyrocket if it happens.

[Caipirabob]

I think it would be appropriate for Bill O’reilly to be Tarred and Feathered...for his lying and BSing.

Well, Bill can get annoying, and his accusation of FR being a hate site was pathetic. Yet I can think of loads of TV personalities who have done far worse harm to this nation where I can name a few good things O'Reilly has actually done (please don't ask me to remember and list them, though - LOL!)

"What? They were out of Bush costumes! Where's my cheap hooker?"

[B-Chan]

Ahhhhhh....street justice. Makes me smile.

Until it happens to you.

I must have missed the part of the story where this guy got a fair trial from the folks who tarred and feathered him. No trial, no justice.

I understand the urge toward so-called "street justice", but a community where a person can arbitrarily be seized and punished by some group of self-appointed enforcers of the law without an opportunity to defend his innocence before an impartial court is no community at all; it is merely an organized mob. If the police and courts are incapable of providing an accused lawbreaker with a fair trial, then it's up to the people in a given community to establish some sort of court and try cases based upon facts. Justice must be procedural or it is not justice at all.

People who deal drugs to children are scum, deserving of the severest of punishments — but allowing a mob to become judge, jury, and executioner is a far greater threat to law-abiding citizens than any drug dealer. Today the mob tars and feathers this guy; tomorrow, the mob might come after you.

[UKrepublican]

Yes I did here about this one. Made me laugh - that is if he actually was a drug dealer, in which case well done those folks.

PING

[Tribune7]

Works for me.

[lowbridge]

I find it curious that people who cheer this action consider themselves to be law and order types.

Hey, it's not like they put a pair of panties on his head.