1 million + Dead Iraqi's might pale in comparison to the pie in the face to one of their prime executioners, a man who was intimately involved in building our casinos on their cemeteries.

"people will now talk about pie instead of the actual issue!"

Well look at the pot calling the kettle black. Perhaps it's true, but the predictable reactionary behaviour is coming from 'the right'. Most sane human beings are capable of simply laughing it off. It's certainly got me talking about it with friends. One guy I spoke to today who hadn't even heard of R.Murdoch, now has. I guess that's a +1 for the cause? How can we judge what the real effects of this action will be? Whatever they are, it'd be nice if we stopped referring to the rest of the human race like they're a bunch of chimps who can't also see this for what it was.

"The protestor got the audience kicked out, demonstrated that our security services can't even protect an 80year old bloke in our own parliament and his wife had to deal with it.

It achieved absolutely nothing.

What's the point of that?"

No. Really. This is like the joke that is airport security. If person B wants to blow someone up, will they try to get through all that nonsense or just go hijack a bus? If people want to hurt or kill others they will find a way. As for failure to protect, no, security services failed to protect society from mafia banksters and media chiefs who have added much regression and misery to human existence, far beyond our comprehension.

What is achieved by anyone act is rarely measurable in a social context. This one act could have inspired one individual to start his own media empire. It's called the butterfly effect, chaos theory, call it what you like. I don't think you have the omnipotence to judge what it achieved for anyone but yourself.

In trying to whack the attacker, she lost her balance and was floored. She was later scooped up. What a pathetic bunch of scumbags, incestuous evil doers who twist true to fit a narrow and perverted agenda. I wish she had fractured bones while lunching to protect a sleazy patriarch who has so much damage to political civility and discourse in this country, USA.

Hi Sally
I agree that the Murdoch performance was well scripted, the Mr Burns style was not what I expected - but given his vast wealth he doubtless has some pretty good advisors. I was dissapointed by the event as I really had hoped that something much more would have come from it.
I worked for a while in Adelaide at LLoyds Hardware (I think it was called) nice place.

Bernie

(19 July 2011 at 21:11)

That would be Maltby pit with an 'M'
Out of interest, and with my psychologists hat on, why did you pick Maltby out of all the 'many picket lines' you were on? was it the ONLY one in fact? Always a worry for those of us on the left when people feel such need to over express their sincerity regarding just how 'lefty' they really are.
Cometh the hour ????

For:- quintessentially english pie throwing.

Against :- chin stroking grey 'this is all so serious' types

Hi Justin
Yes Maltby with a 'b' I was living in South Yorkshire at that time. You are of course right, and in the more sober light of day it wasn't really a great idea of me to mention it although it does perhaps illustrate why I was upset by the attempted slur. The idea of countering an argument by trying to afix a label to the contributor so as to rubbish their opinion is popular on forums, lazy and meaningless.

This was probably staged by Murdoch himself in order to garner sympathy.

Hi Justin
you are again correct, perhaps Mario Savio in his earlier post citing chaos theory was correct and I am indeed glad that I didn't attempt a smart arse response to it when he posted it.

@Arthur O'Connor
The questions I agree were not up to much, I assumed it was due to the pending legal actions.
The second part of your post is disgraceful.

@Arthur.

I agree it was a fitting gesture and spectacle to reduce RM to a foam covered clown,about time ,,,,, as for the wrong setting

"This was not such an occasion"

what other available ones are there ?..

The 'legal action pending line' is a disgraceful but sadly typical obsfucation tactic which is always too readily swallowed,,,, how did we get here ??

All lines of enquiry / action, legal or otherwise, are aimed towards establishing the truth. How does it matter what questions are asked and when? If truths emerge early causing process to be short circuited then time and millions in taxpayers money is saved ! If people are robbed of the time to aim mud and duck for cover because someone spoke the truth too early then ,,,, tough s**t surely! The truth is the 'end' of any enquiry, the sooner established the better?

I'm with Bernie re:- your 2nd post !!

Couldn't have happened to a nice man!

surreal. I was listening on the radio,heard kurfuffle,thght mur senior had had a stroke!
i hope piegate dosent detract from allegations.
N.b wouldnt a shoe thrown have sufficed! i.e iraq style.
Comedians love cream pies.
Who are ukuncut??

I would have gone for James Murdoch. With a pint of orange soda dumped over his head.

First of all it would have ruined his beautiful business suit, woven out of the lives he has destroyed.

Second because Wendi Deng probably wouldn't have moved so fast if it had been her stepson having something harmless but embarrassing dumped on his head.

What an absolute idiot, taking attention away from the rather more serious (ly entertaining) proceedings of watching Murdoch Sr squirm. Headlines that should have been about the actual case will now focus on this instead.

If this is evidence of the level of humour in your 'comedy routine' people would be well-advised to steer clear

How brave of this guy with his double-barreled surname to try and attack an 80 year man. He must be proud of himself.

This UK Uncut lot - obvious bunch of total pratts. It takes a special class of cretin to make the Murdochs look good but they managed it.
Ruperts lovely wife would make a good cadidate for the top vacancy at the Met. Compared to the fat Plod in the white shirt and silly hat she was positively ninja

My, my the tory butler trolls are out in force today. Always serving their masters.

Murdoch and his family should be handed over to the CIA and waterboarded, seeing as his piss poor news media has been supporting torture of others.

Very funny to the the old bully, and his supporters, who support torture, whining because some one threw a pie at him. Ahh, get the wambalance.

Mr. Murdoch:...." Do you accept that ultimately you are responsible for this whole fiasco?

Rupert: No.

All you need to know about capitalist thugs.

"It was a stupid stunt detracting from what was an extremely serious occasion and it will of course steal the headlines."

Don't be so silly. If it was so important how come they did not put them under oath?

Very little ever comes out of these political grandstanding/media Extravaganzas. They are all for show.

aelfheld:
Are you for real or are you taking the piss? throwing a shaving foam pie at some one is "leftist barbarism"??
my first reaction was: how English! A foam pie! How useless, futile and..so very English!
In most countries if you mean to attack someone you use a knife or a gun...but here you are.Or you don't bother.
All these right wing trolls who are shocked by this terrible attack on a poor old" pensioner", make me puke!
This guy is the epitome of Western decadence and the embodiment of the evil of capitalism.He is no harmless little old man but a scumbag. A shaving foam pie thrown at him is like throwing a feather at a viper.
Wake up people!

There has been and will continue to be many occasions when chucking pies is just the thing to be doing. Anything involving N Griffin for example would be good.
This was not such an occasion I think the speed with which UK Uncut have distanced themselves from it demonstrates this pretty well.
Parliament had forced the pair of them in front of a hostile committee a live audience and live International press coverage.
The protestor got the audience kicked out, demonstrated that our security services can't even protect an 80year old bloke in our own parliament and his wife had to deal with it.
It achieved absolutely nothing.
What's the point of that?