Pieing seems to have become the latest trend in protest. I find it funny but embarrassing at the same time. To me it isn't a respectful way for elected representatives to be treated weather we like them or not. Other countries might consider such acts treason or terrorism. Who knows what could be in the pie.

Calgary — Alberta Premier Ralph Klein was hit hard with a banana cream pie to the face yesterday, before a shocked crowd at his annual Calgary Stampede breakfast.

Late Monday night police charged three men with one count each of assault.

Mr. Klein said: "You can't let people like this get away with stuff like that because if it's a pie today, it could be something else tomorrow."

The incident was the latest in a string of pie attacks on Canadian political leaders. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and federal cabinet minister Stéphane Dion have been hit in recent years, as has Jean Charest, just before he won the Quebec election, and former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...BNStory/Front/

We need to do that here. Of course, these days a cream pieing would be seen as an attack on the country. :rolleyes:

This would lead to the FBI raiding Marie Calenders in search of PMD's (Pies of messy distraction). They would be hauling granny off to camp X-Ray as an enemy combatant!

Well we do have a version of it:

Man Charged With Tossing Water Balloon at U.S. House Speaker
The Associated Press
Published: Jul 8, 2003

DIXON, Ill. (AP) - A man attending a parade faces charges for tossing a water balloon at U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
John Allen, 33, is accused of throwing the balloon during the Dixon Petunia Festival parade. The balloon broke on an antique fire truck driven by Hastert, who got wet but was not injured.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA6W61EVHD.html

Disrespect of politicians carries a high price! ;)

Mark

I saw that [img]smile.gif[/img] But the fella that tossed the ballon claimed he did not know he was bombing the Speaker of the House.

I liked the judges comment during the hearing, "He is third in line to the presidency of the United States. You won't forget it next time, will you?"

I have such deep respect for these kinds of tactics. Pies, water balloons, squirting flowers. It's natural evolution--Che Guevara meets Bozo.

Personally, I think nothing beats a flaming bag of dog $hit left on the White House doorstep...

And again Mr. Klein shows us his extensive worldly knowledge. Yes of course Mr Klein, pie throwers will surely develop to hand granade throwers to show their disapprovement. :rolleyes: Bah, it's a shame you can't charge polticians for lying, greed and stupidity.

Anyway better for them to throw pies at the representatives they dislike than to for instance ruin public property. It may be degrading but it isn't likely to cause damage.

Well, Mr Klein (whoever that is) is right about that. We had a politician who got pied. The question rose if politicians should have bodyguards or something like that, and they must have thought it was overreacting, since nothing really changed.

The pied politician in question was shot to death a few months later.

[ 07-09-2003, 07:41 AM: Message edited by: johnny ]

Was it by the same persons? If not I disagree with you. Hiring bodyguards to shiled them from pie throwers is a waste of my tax money. If they need protection from more violent protesters, well then by all means.

You're absolutely right Willow, the pie throwing incident was completely unrelated to the murder. Other politicians got pied too, besides. I don't get the whining about the protection issue anyway - all of the country agreed that the murder was a complete shock, so no one should have been expected to foresee it, including the security experts. I wonder how most of the people who keep bringing the issue up would respond if Melkert, after receiving those bullets in the mail, complained he was insufficiently protected.