No rope. I have far worse in store for them. After the tar and feathers, we lock them in a room and show Howard Cosell tapes 24/7 on a wall size screen! In the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, future scientists don't know what to make of those tapes and assume they were used to torture political prisoners in the 20th century.
After they've seen all the Cosell tapes like 20 times we switch to infomercials for irritable bowel products and books and financial self-help CD's. You see, I'm an evil genius!