Drug dealer tarred, feathered; public outraged?

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=478310&in_page_id=1811

Maybe it's only the newspaper that's outraged. Then again, it did happen in the UK.

Myself, I think he got off easy, but I'm medieval like that.

Regards,
Rabbit.

[client32]

This part of the article stuck out at me:

Frankie Gallagher or the Ulster Political Research Group said: "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."

By the time the Police Service of Northern Ireland was made aware of the incident, the victim - and his two attackers - had gone.

[Tallpine]

Probably way more effective than prison

(score 1 point for anarchy  )

[wmenorr67]

And they say we are the uncivilized ones.

[Tallpine]

And they say we are the uncivilized ones.

You would prefer no-knock raids, shooting puppies, and stomping kittens ? 

[MechAg94]

I would like to see that sort of action in some of our poor neighborhoods.  At least it would show they give a damn.  The probably here is that every single family thinks their child is innocent. 

[Perd Hapley]

You would prefer no-knock raids, shooting puppies, and stomping kittens ? 

Well, kitten-stomping would be a good start.   

[Tallpine]

Just so you know, fistful ... I shot a dog for killing our cats 

[Fly320s]

What's wrong with dealing drugs?

Huh?  Oh, it's against the law?  Well, righty-oh!  Put on another layer. 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

What's wrong with dealing drugs?

Huh?  Oh, it's against the law?  Well, righty-oh!  Put on another layer. 

Ya ever see what a pusher can do to someone who's addicted?  Tar and feathers is likely to be a helluva lot nicer than he deserves.  Pedophiles might be more depraved  than most drug dealers, but only barely.

[Fly320s]

No, never have.

I know we've hashed this out a hundred times, so I won't do it again.

[Strings]

Tallpine: wouldn't it have been better to have shot the dog and his owner?

[Perd Hapley]

Just so you know, fistful ... I shot a dog for killing our cats     

And so far, I've managed NOT to wring my cat's neck for puking all over the house.  And biting for no apparent reason.  And being creepy.

Sorry, I never had anything against cats until I had this one.  I liked the ones we had when I was kid.   

[LadySmith]

Vigilantism tends to happen when the justice system fails, doesn't it?
Fistful, I'll take your cat if you don't want it. 

[Boomhauer]

I think tarring and feathering is a practice that needs to come back into vogue.

[Tallpine]

Tallpine: wouldn't it have been better to have shot the dog and his owner?

You are absolutely correct! 

(I was just waiting for a chance to make it look like self-defense    Better that he went to prison - at least for a while - than me)

[The Rabbi]

I think tarring and feathering is a practice that needs to come back into vogue.

Especially against its original targets: politicians and other public figures who exhibited outrageous behavior.

[tyme]

Ya ever see what a pusher can do to someone who's addicted?

Ya ever seen what slot machines can do to someone who's addicted?  Or alcohol?  Or nicotine?

If someone has an objectively perfect moral compass and sets policy based on that, who needs silly things like a constitutionally-limited republic?

[The Rabbi]

Ya ever see what a pusher can do to someone who's addicted?

Ya ever seen what slot machines can do to someone who's addicted?  Or alcohol?  Or nicotine?

If someone has an objectively perfect moral compass and sets policy based on that, who needs silly things like a constitutionally-limited republic?

So your argument against pushers is that since there are already other sources of abuse we should tolerate any form of abuse?
No, that one won't fly.

[roo_ster]

Just think of it as a local anarchist syndicate deciding that they, as free men, can live without government (to include the COTUS) and break out a can of whup-*expletive deleted*ss on an anti-social & un-neighborly interloper.

[Cromlech]

I knew that one of you guys would have posted this story by the time that I got here. 

[Iain]

I expected that the bit about how knee-cappings, tarring and featherings and punishment beatings were not always strictly reserved for drug dealers or often aimed at those competing with the IRA/loyalist's own pushers would be the bit that was ignored. Nice fantasy, horrible reality.

[Ron]

I'm kinda fond of the rule of law combined with a quick administration of justice myself.

[roo_ster]

[anarchist_outrage]Statist![/anarchist_outrage]

[jeepmor]

Ouch, that had to hurt.  Washing that stuff off of burned skin must be fun.  How many warnings do you think the neighborhood blokes gave him.   I suspect many more than one.

On the cat note.  We have a 17 year old that is beginning to like to lay under cars.  And is nearly deaf to boot, bad combo.  It never did this though, I amazed.