Jonnie Marbles: Stand-Up Guy

[effecT]

To put a human face on the man who assaulted Mr. Murdoch I link you this video:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/jul/19/jonnie-marbles-rupert-murdoch-attack

I like that the police had the decency to wipe the shaving cream off his face.

[JonFromMaplewood]

It seems like this guy has the right intentions, but does not know how to get the message across.  Pie assaults aside, protesting inside HSBC and then leaving when the cops say to leave does not seem like a very effective strategy.

What a great character that would make for a movie.  The worst protester ever.  DIBS!

[effecT]

Well he had the MARBLES to go through with the shaving cream attack...

But he is the worst kind of publicity for protesting, because his protest, the cream attack and the bank protest, come off so half-hearted, impotent and stupid, that you would not want to participate in any of it.
But i heard good things about UK-Uncut from Sam Seder...

[dave from knoxville]

To put a human face on the man who assaulted Mr. Murdoch I link you this video:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/jul/19/jonnie-marbles-rupert-murdoch-attack

I like that the police had the decency to wipe the shaving cream off his face.

Without the cleaning, the perp walk is meaningless.

[CSW]

No, No, No, No, No.

Like Tom and others said on twitter, this clown took the attention away from what was being said and put it onto himself (and Murdoch's wife.) Now Murdoch sympathetic media can just show this and breeze over the rest.

UK Uncut are not fighting as good and pure a fight as they would maybe have you believe. Some of what they are doing is motivated from protecting union members and not the best interests of the non-unionised general UK tax payers like myself. Amongst other things, there's a big gap between the pay and conditions of the public and private sectors here (in favour of the public sector) that needs to be addressed.  (I'm not explicitly for any of the UK parties. I like bits that each of them offer and currently believe a coalition is the best way to get a relatively centrist, bi-partisan job done. As a dual national and registered US voter, I think America could use a centrist movement right now too.) End opinionated rant.

[effecT]

No, No, No, No, No.

Like Tom and others said on twitter, this clown took the attention away from what was being said and put it onto himself (and Murdoch's wife.) Now Murdoch sympathetic media can just show this and breeze over the rest.

UK Uncut are not fighting as good and pure a fight as they would maybe have you believe. Some of what they are doing is motivated from protecting union members and not the best interests of the non-unionised general UK tax payers like myself. Amongst other things, there's a big gap between the pay and conditions of the public and private sectors here (in favour of the public sector) that needs to be addressed.  (I'm not explicitly for any of the UK parties. I like bits that each of them offer and currently believe a coalition is the best way to get a relatively centrist, bi-partisan job done. As a dual national and registered US voter, I think America could use a centrist movement right now too.) End opinionated rant.

As I said, I just heard about UK Uncut from Sam Seder and didn't really delve into it the subject matter, so I am no authority in the actual policies of the organization and will defer to you. Not to address the politics of it  too much, because they don't interest me really, I just wanted to point out the political motivation of Mr. Marbles and that he is not doing it as a exclusively self-serving attention grab, which Tom didn't mention. Not that I want to fault that, I just thought it would be even funnier to look deeper into the story and see this guy and his lousy companions operate (poorly).

As to the theory that Murdoch-media is glazing over the story:
Fox and Friends: We're All Hacking Victims! Sorta.

They were already doing it...(also poorly)
Anyone with half a brain knows that this changes nothing about the bribes and hacking and I think Tom was just emphasizing the story and the "importance" of it in jest.

I still think Mr. Marbles is an idiot and shouldn't have done this, but not because of the media implications.
My initial post was supposed to humorous and lampoon Marbles and his gang of (almost non-)activists, sitting in the bank and having a cuddleparty.

[orangewhip]

This whole thing bums me out because Rupert really does deserve several pies in the face.  He should be strapped to a pieing machine and be pelted with pies ....but it doesn't mean you should actually do it.  I don't consider him or Roger Ayers all that much better than terrorists but a move like that gains absolutely nothing and ends up making you look like a fucking clown.