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by **112-1077774096** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:51 am

this is hilarious, a great way to deal with scum

A man was subjected to a so-called 'tarring and feathering' attack in south Belfast on Sunday.

It is thought the attack was carried out by two men wearing balaclavas as a crowd including women and children looked on.

The victim was made to wear a placard reading 'I'm a drug dealing scum bag'.

Colin Halliday of the UPRG, the political wing of the UDA, speaking in the Belfast Telegraph, described the incident as "a community reaction".

"It was not a UDA punishment attack," he said.

"There was a lot of anger within the community as nobody wants a drug dealer in their midst.

"There were people baying for blood but that's not the way things are done now."

Alliance leader David Ford said: "Despite denials from the UPRG, most people will find it very hard to believe that the UDA was not involved in this despicable act."

Although the police was made aware of the incident by the time officers arrived in the loyalist estate, neither the victim or his attackers could be found.

"A report of an incident in Finwood Park, Taughmonagh, was received shortly after 10.10pm on Sunday evening," a spokesman said.

and to top it all they took this picture

by **66-1112520797** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:58 am

I know they do the tar and feather thing, but why, what does it resemble ?

Is it meant to solely humiliate somebody, whats the history behind it ?

by **dia- mond** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:10 pm

Could adopt this punishment for the lil gangtas trawling our streets at the mo. Not life threatening but effective.

by **CardinalRed** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:48 pm

Bamaga man wrote:I know they do the tar and feather thing, but why, what does it resemble ?
Is it meant to solely humiliate somebody, whats the history behind it ?

From 'Wikipeadia' Bamaga Man.... a little potted history of Tarring & Feathering:

Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, at least as old as the Crusades, used to enforce formal justice in feudal Europe and informal justice in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance.
Both pine tar, used in early industry, and feathers from edible fowl sources (such as chickens) were plentiful. In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the object of a crowd's anger would be stripped to the waist (if not below). Hot tar was either poured or painted onto the person while he (rarely she) was immobilized. Then the victim either had feathers thrown on him or was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the sticky tar. Often the victim was then paraded around town on a cart or a rail. The feathers would stick to the tar for days, making the person's degradation clear to the public and ongoing. The aim was to hurt and humiliate a person enough to leave town and cause no more mischief.

The practice was never an official punishment in the United States, but rather a form of vigilante justice. It was eventually abandoned as society moved away from public, corporal punishment and toward rehabilitation of criminals.

There were examples of tarring and feathering during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In these cases hospitals could clean the mess off quickly.

A more brutal derivation called pitchcapping, designed to badly damage skin and flesh on the head, was used by British soldiers against suspected rebels during the period of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Sometimes only the head was shaven, tarred and feathered.
In a milder form, avoiding wounds by fixing the tar on (under)clothing, it is still occasionally used, as a humiliating or jocular punishment, as for disobedient fraternity pledges (compare hazing).
First degree burns are sustained after a split second contact with a material that is about 70 ºC (160 ºF). The same is also sustained after thirty seconds of contact with 55 ºC (130 ºF) material. The tar of that period was of such a quality that it only melted at about 60 ºC (140 ºF). At temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F) burns can be created with a three second contact. The thin tar layer presumably cooled quickly; nevertheless, the victims possibly sustained some burns in addition to their humiliation.

History
The earliest mention of the punishment occurs in the orders of Richard I of England, issued to his navy on starting for the Holy Land in 1191. "Concerning the lawes and ordinances appointed by King Richard for his navie the forme thereof was this… item, a thiefe or felon that hath stolen, being lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or downe strawed upon the same whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing-place they shall come to, there to be cast up" (transcript of original statute in Hakluyt's Voyages, ii. 21).

A later instance of this penalty being inflicted is given in Notes and Queries (series 4, vol. v), which quotes one James Howell writing from Madrid, in 1623, of the "boisterous Bishop of Halberstadt," who, "having taken a place where there were two monasteries of nuns and friars, he caused divers feather beds to be ripped, and all the feathers thrown into a great hall, whither the nuns and friars were thrust naked with their bodies oiled and pitched and to tumble among these feathers, which makes them here (Madrid) presage him an ill-death." In 1696 a London bailiff, who attempted to serve process on a debtor who had taken refuge within the precincts of the Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to the maypole which stood by what is now Somerset House, as an improvised pillory.

The first recorded incident in America was in 1766: Captain William Smith was tarred, feathered, and dumped into the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, by a mob that included the town's Mayor. He was picked up by a vessel just as his strength was giving out. He survived, and was later quoted as saying that "…[they] dawbed my body and face all over with tar and afterwards threw feathers on me." As with most other tar-and-feathers victims in the following decade, Smith was suspected of informing on smugglers to the British Customs service.

The punishment appeared in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1767, when mobs avenged themselves on low-level employees of the Customs service with tar and feathers. In October 1769, a mob in Boston attacked a Customs service sailor the same way, and a few similar attacks followed through 1774 (the tarring and feathering of customs worker John Malcolm received particular attention in 1774). Such acts associated the punishment with the Patriot side of the American Revolution. In March 1775, a British regiment inflicted the same treatment on a Massachusetts man they suspected of trying to buy their muskets. There is no case of a person dying from being tarred and feathered in this period.

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was tarred and feathered for alleged acts of depravity against 15 year old Marinda Johnson in February 1832 by the brothers of the victim.

In the 1920s, vigilantes opposed to IWW organizers at the harbor of San Pedro, kidnapped at least one organizer, subjected him to tarring and feathering, and left him in a remote location.

Also in the early 20th century many African Americans were subjected to this treatment as a form of punishment, often for unjust and circumstantial reasons.

Following the Liberation of France in WW2 there were instances of alleged German collaborators being tarred and feathered by street mobs. Most of the victims of this practice were women accused of a Collaboration horizontale, i.e. fraternization with German soldiers.

Similar tactics were also used by the IRA during the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict. Many of the victims were women who had been in sexual relationships with Policemen or British Soldiers.

by **The Ace1983** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:53 pm

NIce. Nothing like a little vigilante action.

by **66-1112520797** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:27 pm

Thanks for that Cardinal. Quite interesting.

by **jkop** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:20 pm

The UPRG (Ulster political Research Group) (the people behind the UDA.) have been promised money from the government if they give up their weapons and end violence, so instead of shooting or beating this person to a pulp they did what used to be done a long time ago which is to tar and feather someone. Basically still up to their old tricks while trying to keep their noses clean.

by **MightyLFC** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:59 pm

What is this all about

by **Woollyback** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:23 pm

MightyLFC wrote:What is this all about

read the thread you doofus

by **The Manhattan Project** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:46 pm

"There was a lot of anger within the community as nobody wants a drug dealer in their midst.

That's a bit rich coming from a Northern Irish paramilitary.

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