Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.
The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, “a stained shirt”.
According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)
Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if he gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)
The first act of political violence in Australia was when PM Billy Hughes was struck by an egg that was thrown at him during a speech in favor of conscription.
The second act of political violence in Australia was when PM Hughes jumped into the crowd to throw hands with the egg-thrower.
You Aussies sure are a contentious people
(with my full respect)
You’d get charged with terrorism now. Might as well go full Luigi.
Shoes.
George W. Bush knew how to dodge a shoe.
We found out not long after
Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. It’s the old “you need to protect yourself every time, we only need to touch you once” thing. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.
