You insult your neighbors implying that tar and feathering is a ' fine old Southern tradition'. It was never fine !
It went out with the Ku Klux Klan and hangings.-pappy
Not really
Wiki-again
Both tar, which was used in and around 1774, and feathers from edible fowl sources (such as chickens) were plentiful. In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the subject of a crowd's anger would be stripped to the waist. Hot tar was either poured or painted onto the person while he or 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 tar. Often the victim was then paraded around town on a cart or a rail. The aim was to hurt and humiliate a person enough to leave town and not cause any more mischief.
It does sound nasty when you read about it from the historic perspective so I'll appolgize and just agree with the last 5 words as a goal "not cause any more mischief". Pappy, you missed the point. Unless there is a reson to pay Preston off, it should not be done. The disagreement does not exist until the new Council is seated. The the question really is, how to hold out current public servants to a higher standard than they have been in the past? The "buy him out" rewards him for something that has yet to happen.
