Tony Blair pelted with eggs (and shoes) at book signing in Dublin

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

Eggs and shoes have been thrown at the former prime minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin.

It happened as he arrived at Easons on O'Connell Street to sign copies of his autobiography.

The missiles, which were thrown by anti-war protesters, did not hit Mr Blair.

Activists clashed with Irish police as they tried to push down a security barrier outside the bookshop.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11187320

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Looking forward to seeing the photos/videos.

Protesters Pelt Blair With Shoes And Eggs

David Williams, Sky News Online

Tony Blair has faced the wrath of anti-war protesters as he arrived for the first public signing of his rapidly-selling memoirs in Dublin. Shoes and eggs were hurled at the former prime minister and scuffles broke out despite heavy security outside Eason's bookstore in the Irish capital.

Activists clashed with Gardai as they tried to push down a security barrier outside the O'Connell Street shop, which had already been locked down in the anticipation of trouble. The missiles hurled missed Mr Blair after he had emerged from the back of a car surrounded by a security team who were shielding him with umbrellas.

Campaigners, who turned out in the pouring rain, were chanting: "Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?" They also shouted: "Tony Blair war criminal" and "blood on your hands".

Undercover detectives had mingled with the crowds taking names before Mr Blair arrived at the shop at about 10.30am.

Full article: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Tony-Blair-Holds-Public-Book-Signing-In-Dublin-After-Live-TV-Interview-On-RTE/Article/201009115713424

[Hannah Bell]

1. good. wish bush would come out of hiding so we could throw eggs at him too.

the little coward.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. One week after the midterms in November . . . . . .

[xxqqqzme]

54. There were eggs thrown at him on

January 20, 2001. We knew he was going to cheat at everything.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Follow the leader, Poodle Boy. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[curiousdemo]

10. That what Blair gets when he

hang around a loser like Bush.

[John Kerry VonErich]

18. We all know what happened to the guy after he threw it

nt

[florida08]

3. love the irish

too bad they missed him..but I love the egg idea :popcorn:

[dencol]

4. It's considered bio terrorism if you use American eggs.

At least if they're raw.

[Kolesar]

14. Or my fungusey sneakers...eom

[florida08]

15. ok then

boiled is even better

[Swamp Rat]

5. HAHA!! Imigh sa diabhal!!!

(Gaelic : Go to the devil!!!) :evilgrin:

[Ignis]

52. +++

Sure and Tony knows which way he's headed.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

61. Swamp Rat!!! You know Gaelic????

That is too cool!




a bizillion years ago, I signed up for a Gaelic course, but...... a week before the start of semester, I got a letter. The instructor had died!!!!!!!!

[Turborama]

6. UPDATE: Video has been added to the BBC link...

Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11187320

[Sanity Claws]

17. "Shame, shame, shame..."

was one of the chants I heard.

Why should the Irish gardai protect an English war criminal?

[ShamelessHussy]

7. "The missiles, which were thrown by anti-war protesters" - must be some strong people over there

with poor aim...

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Thus may it ever be

wherever neocons & their poodles try to make a buck (or quid) off their war crimes. May they also fear arrest whenever they venture from their finely-feathered nests. May they lose their comfort zone!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

9. But he's donating all the proceeds of his book to disabled war veterans...

Bet he sure DID need to drink a lot to live with himself.

[Loki]

11. Would we ever have news reporting like that

reporter and video here in the United States about our war criminals? I have to admire those people who are speaking with their feet and their voices. We sit on our asses and do nothing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

62. goddamit I was just thinking the same thing.

:(


US media is in the sewer. That's a big part of why we do little, I think...we don't get the info, nor do we get the professionalism that other countries seem to still have.

[The Wizard]

12. For all the money he made as a war profiteer

taking a few eggs and shoes is a pittance. In some places being accused of doing far less will get you stoned to death.

[disndat]

26. Agree.

Between being a poodle to Bush and a kitty to Murdoch, Blair is very well set. How about the profits from the book going to families of soldiers he had killed for war profits?

[tanyev]

16. I guess Dubya won't be going to Dublin any time soon.

Too bad.

[Solly Mack]

19. Good

[urgk]

20. Technically speaking, don't you have to be hit to be "pelted"?

But, cheers, for the outrage :)

[Billy Burnett]

21. Notice how the police handle these protesters?

Imagine if that protest were in America against a former RW president ...













(We're #1.)

[oldironside]

22. Thanks for posting.

First belly laugh I've had all day. Even if they didn't hit the B, they at least got their message across.

He was doing the book signing in the Republic to avoid protests in the UK. Another great plan that didn't quite come off, eh Tone?

[go west young man]

23. Good for the Irish!

More of these war criminals should be pelted with eggs and exposed for what they are
instead of being given free TV time. And Now Blair wants to attack Iran. Who would
seriously listen to this incorrect fool?

[Ichingcarpenter]

29. In the States.... the Secret Service and their billion dollar budget

Would shut down any American doing what is rationally and a public duty to deal with tyrants of the media and war criminals.

What does food cost?

[bvar22]

24. Tony deserves worse.

He deserves a Nuremberg Tribunal.
So does the Bush Administration.

The Democrats choosing to turn a blind eye to the War Crimes also deserved to be held accountable.

[on point]

48. Second that

[chervilant]

51. Thus,

Obama's pathetic, tepid 'praise' of Bush during his last address of the nation highlights this accountability. Sad, the caliber of politicians in office these days...

[Duval]

25. Bush and Blairs pictures could become

the new emetic in hospitals around the world!!:puke: :think:

[AllyCat]

27. Wow. They actually protest there. Here, we are more docile and

complacent. Although I suspect those who do protest are marginalized in the press.

[freebrew]

30. Different geography, maybe.

Things are much more spread out here, making it more difficult for the people to get together.
The PTB use that to their advantage.

[rocktivity]

28. So now Poodle AND the Chimp have had shoes thrown at them.

The punishment fits the crime!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw

:headbang:
rocktivity

[SoapBox]

31. Hilarious!

I have an idea!

Step up one of those carnival type booths, where you throw baseballs at the
stacks of pins/milk bottle BUT...

line up his books and let people throw eggs. You hit enough books you
can win a "Booby Prize".

OR...let's do one of the favorites of "conservatives" and BURN his book.

[Amonester]

32. That war criminal for greed should be citizen arrested.

Since it seems the actual officers of justice for greed won't do anything.
Here's to hoping one of them will reject all corruption attempts ASAP. :fistbump:

[metapunditedgy]

33. Instead, he's profiting from his book deals... war is hell. n/t

[Iggo]

34. Fucking war criminal.

[L0oniX]

35. He deserves a lot more than that ...a life sentence in prison at the least.

[Hissyspit]

36. I can relate:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hissyspit/8072

[Raster]

37. We must never forget and we must never let anyone else forget.

I *still* have a worn and faded "Impeach Bush and Cheney" bumpersticker in the upper left hand corner of my rear window. It ain't going anywhere.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
There were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
We invaded and occupied a sovereign nation because of lies.
We murdered hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis during the invasion and occupation.
bush*, cheney*, rumsfeld*, rice* = WAR CRIMINALS!

[rhett o rick]

44. They are war criminals and IMHO behind the horrors of 911. nm

[peacetalksforall]

38. How many eggs would be thrown if Team Death co-wrote a book about

Iraq - meaning Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Kristol, Perle and Bush.

Then what if the following PNACers wrote some anthologies or kind of an encyclopidic set about their support for a new Pearl Harbor and what it meant to them -they could have their turn at doing a book tour and signing copies.

Signatories to Statement of Principles
Elliott Abrams<5>
Gary Bauer<5>
William J. Bennett<5>
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush<5>
Eliot A. Cohen<5>
Midge Decter<5>
Paula Dobriansky<5>
Steve Forbes<5>
Aaron Friedberg<5>
Francis Fukuyama<5>
Frank Gaffney<5>
Fred C. Ikle<5>
Donald Kagan<5>
Zalmay Khalilzad<5>
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby<5>
Norman Podhoretz<5>
J. Danforth Quayle<5>
Peter W. Rodman<5>
Stephen P. Rosen<5>
Henry S. Rowen<5>
Vin Weber<5>
George Weigel<5>

And then there were these - some duplication here:

Signatories or contributors to other significant letters or reports<14>
Elliott Abrams<8><10>
Kenneth Adelman<52>
Richard V. Allen<18>
Richard L. Armitage<10>
Gary Bauer<18><52>
Jeffrey Bell<18><52>
William J. Bennett<8><10><18><52>
Jeffrey Bergner<8><10><18>
John Bolton<8><10>
Ellen Bork<52>
Rudy Boschwitz<18>
Linda Chavez<52>
Eliot Cohen<13><18><52>
Seth Cropsey<18>
Midge Decter<18><52>
Paula Dobriansky<8><10>
Thomas Donnelly<13><18><52>
Nicholas Eberstadt,<18><52><53>
Hillel Fradkin<18><52><54>
Aaron Friedberg<18>
Francis Fukuyama<8><10><18>
Frank Gaffney<18><52>
Jeffrey Gedmin<18><52>
Reuel Marc Gerecht<18><52>
Charles Hill<18><52>
Bruce P. Jackson<18><52>
Eli S. Jacobs<18>
Michael Joyce<18>
Donald Kagan<13><18><52>
Robert Kagan<8><10><13><18><52>
Stephen Kantany</>
Zalmay Khalilzad<8><10>
Jeane Kirkpatrick<18>
Charles Krauthammer<18>
William Kristol<8><10><13><18>
John Lehman<18><52>
I. Lewis Libby<13>
Tod Lindberg<52><55>
Rich Lowry<52>
Clifford May<18><52>
John McCain<56>
Joshua Muravchik<52>
Michael O'Hanlon <57><58>
Martin Peretz<18><52>
Richard Perle<8><10><18><52>
Daniel Pipes<52>
Norman Podhoretz<18><52>
Peter W. Rodman<8><10><18>
Stephen P. Rosen<13><18><52>
Donald Rumsfeld<8><10>
Randy Scheunemann<18><52>
Gary Schmitt<13><18><50><52>
William Schneider, Jr.<8><10><18><52>
Richard H. Shultz<18><59>
Henry Sokolski<18>
Stephen J. Solarz<18>
Vin Weber<8><10><18>
Leon Wieseltier<18>
Marshall Wittmann<18><52>
Paul Wolfowitz<8><10><13>
R. James Woolsey<8><10><52>
Dov Zakheim<13><60>
Robert B. Zoellick<8><10>

And then there were these - some duplication here also:

Project directors


William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman<1>
Robert Kagan, Co-founder<1>
Bruce P. Jackson<1>
Mark Gerson<1>
Randy Scheunemann<1>

Project staff
Ellen Bork, Deputy Director<1>
Gary Schmitt, Senior Fellow<1><50>
Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow<1>
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow<1>
Mitch Jackson, Senior Fellow
Timothy Lehmann, Assistant Director<1>
Michael Goldfarb, Research Associate<1>


Former directors and staff
Daniel McKivergan, Deputy Director<51>

(from Wikipedia on PNAC)

[IcyPeas]

39. george w. bush...

Has this EVER happened to bush yet? This gets news coverage BECAUSE of the "riot?" "anarchy"? whatever you call it when crowds get a little out of control

WE NEED TO GET OUT OF CONTROL.

[EFerrari]

40. Thank you, Dublin. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

41. Spot on! nt

[Rage for Order]

42. Contrast the comments in this thread from when Carl Levin got a pie to the face

Just a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4505912

Quite the study in contrasts

[totodeinhere]

45. That just goes to show the extreme bias we get here. n/t

[sabrina 1]

50. Is Carl Levin a war criminal, a torturer?

The contrast would be the difference between Levin and the war criminals.

[Rage for Order]

56. So you approve of vigilantism then?

As long as the person is guilty, in your opinion, the offense is okay. Thanks for clarifying.

[daleo]

59. It's civil disobedience

Not vigilantism.

[sabrina 1]

64. You didn't answer my question. I clarified something for you.

But you then jumped to ridiculous rhetoric. I approve of citizens holding elected representatives responsible. And when war criminals travel outside their own countries trying to profit from their crimes, the citizens of those countries have a duty to object to that. And to make a citizen's arrest if they can.

I would prefer that their governments, ours eg, would hold them responsible, but when they don't, then they make it the responsibilty of citizens to do so.

So you're against free speech? The freedom to assemble, to protest war crimes? Thanks for clarifying.

I'm happy to say that those demonstrations are perfectly legal in Ireland and if a war criminal doesn't want this to happen, s/he should think about that before committing the crimes. Tony Blair and George Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Ledeen et al are very, very lucky people. No one has murdered their children or tortured their loved ones. All they have to deal with is people letting them know they know they are war criminals. I think they decided the money and power was worth that.

Btw, were you in favor of dropping cluster bombs on market-places that ripped other people's children apart in their own country? Blair was, he ordered those crimes. He didn't care about those children, babies, old people, sick people. So now he's rich, very very rich. And he wants to make more money from his crimes. And you are objecting to people letting him know that his crimes will not be forgotten? Those are strange priorities.

[Tripmann]

43. Very proud to be a Dubliner right now!

[defendandprotect]

46. K&R --

[Ignis]

47. Couldn't happen to a nicer poodle.

[NJCher]

49. I liked this part

"We talked to one person who managed to get in the book shop to get her book signed and as Mr Blair was signing her copy she said she wanted to make a citizen's arrest for war crimes," he said.

"She said Mr Blair looked a little taken aback but before she knew it she was surrounded by four security personnel who ushered her into the stairwell."

I love these protesters.


Cher

[autorank]

53. bLIAR gets his taste of public support k*r

The guy's a war criminal. Just because he isn't indicted should not be taken as a lack of general
awareness.

See "Ghost Writer" about Blair, new film, to get the ultimate perspective on this sad excuse for a leader.

[defendandprotect]

55. Wonder when our governments are going to start protecting us from TREASONOUS filth like Blair ....

and Bush .. Cheney and Rumsfeld -- rather than protecting these criminals from

public anger????????

[Mendocino]

57. Oh Tony just wiped them off with the same

Union jack that he cleaned his mouth with, after he kissed the ass of GWB.

[russspeakeasy]

58. What? No rocks or turds available??

[lovuian]

60. meanwhile Blair is getted roasted and Bush is protected

by our department of MisJustice

[Raster]

63. And let's not forget the "heckofa job Bushie" by President Obama

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[alp227]

66. In the UK/Ireland, protesters sure love picking fights huh?

For example, supporters of the anti-Islam group English Defence League threw objects at police during a protest on August 28, coinciding with Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally back in America.

In June 2009, British National Party leader Nick Griffin . BNP is considered fascist and racist. When Griffin infamously was to appear on the BBC program Question Time, anti-fascist protesters got in scuffles.

What do the police need to resort to next time, a protest bubble? Chain gangs?

[David__77]

67. He got off easy.

He helped transform the Labor Party into a foul, stinking carcass that must be destroyed once and for all.