Colorado student charged in "glitter bomb" of Romney

[gerryb]

And to philforpaul, I suggest you take a look at the laws in place to protect us from violent and aggressive acts. This is not big government run amok. This is one of the few areas that Dr. Paul thinks the federal government should be involved (while of course using discretion, as they do in cases like this): protecting individual liberty and property from harm, etc.

Actually that isn't accurate.

This isn't even for the state to deal with.

This is a local sheriff's duty. No Big Government necessary or wanted.

 

[SCOTUSman]

Ron Paul looked happy to be glitter bombed.

We have a celebration here every year where they fill empty, cleaned egg shells with glitter and people go around smashing them on other's heads.

I've never heard of injuries from doing that.

Girl on left has glasses protecting her...girl on right is getting it directly from behind, so no danger to the eyes. But I have seen it happen before, getting glitter bombed to the face cut someone's cornea.

 

[Revolution9]

I don't know. Glitterbombs don't bother me. But neither do pie in the faces. Yes, I can see where they are technically assault. Yes, I would never do it. Yes, I'd be a bit peeved for a day if it happened to me. I can see where could cause some unintended injury on rare occassions. But in the grand scheme of things? Minor civil disobedience; the target of the pie/glitter is a public figure, symbolic of many causes.

That sort of thing has a long history... rotten tomatoes, eggs... heck, even the super-violent tar and feathering. Glitterbombs and whipcream pies are a pretty significant improvement over that.

I guess while I'd never do it myself, I understand that these sort of events are going to happen. I'd rather it be glitter, or a pie, than something worse. It's meant to be non-violent, more of a symbol than an assault.

Meanwhile, kids are sent of to fight the wars, and tazers are used far too frequently.

I once wanted to put up a site and think about it now and then. There was no good domain name for it left though. The idea was public figures were voted up onto a pie in the face board and then pledges were made as a bounty for who was able to cream pie that public figure and have a youtube of it. It would possibly risk arrest for the pie thrower so I would have a bounty kitty to pay for bail and court charges. I still think it would make a shit ton but I haven't figured out the implications of the operator and what laws or legal statutes they would violate. I can imagine a 2.5 million bounty piled up to cream pie Kissinger, 5 million for old Rothschild. I guess you would have to have a no sitting presidents rule or SS would shut the site down in a hurry with two emotionless drones questioning me for hours and just not getting that it is supposed to be funny. Imagine Kissinger watching everywhere he went for the pie thrower. That next waiter at the fab power restaurant just may value the bounty more than his tip and the job.

Rev9

 

[dannno]

Girl on left has glasses protecting her...girl on right is getting it directly from behind, so no danger to the eyes. But I have seen it happen before, getting glitter bombed to the face cut someone's cornea.

What is the relevancy of your post?

I just used that picture as an example to show what goes on in my town every year. There are probably a dozen or so Mexican families that sit on the sidewalk selling the eggs for about $.25/piece, each of the families or groups makes hundreds of them... So we have THOUSANDS of eggs, bought by thousands of drunk people smashing them on other people's heads, and I've never heard of an injury. It's a tradition that has been going on for decades.

 

[Revolution9]

I did take that into account, actually. I still think attempting to physically force something upon the person the SS is protecting is dumb. There are better ways to make a point.

But if yer a bar queen this is two groovy loop snaps in the air miss thang. Frikkin' feminized clownage.

Rev9

 

[Revolution9]

Just to put things in proper perspective here. Chances are ya throw glitter dust on me and it ain't no cha cha party I am gonna throw a hit at you for violating my space and thinking yer gonna get the better of me out of nowhere. Romney shoulda decked the pantywaist.


Rev9

 

[SCOTUSman]

What is the relevancy of your post?

I just used that picture as an example to show what goes on in my town every year. There are probably a dozen or so Mexican families that sit on the sidewalk selling the eggs for about $.25/piece, each of the families or groups makes hundreds of them... So we have THOUSANDS of eggs, bought by thousands of drunk people smashing them on other people's heads, and I've never heard of an injury. It's a tradition that has been going on for decades.

About as relevant as the rest of the stuff in this thread. But I say it in jest.

Interesting tradition. Seems fun and good games. Good there has never been an injury. I'm sure people are probably safe, and not throwing it or breaking it over people's eyes. And don't get me wrong, glitter cutting someone's eyes is very very rare...but it can happen. When you throw something...anything at someone's eyes, it can be dangerous. That is all I was saying.

 

[TheGrinch]

Actually that isn't accurate.

This isn't even for the state to deal with.

This is a local sheriff's duty. No Big Government necessary or wanted.

Ba, that was a misstatement. I realize that crimes are handled as locally as possible, as they should be, but it can go as high as the federal level in the Supreme Court if necessary to ensure protection of liberty and property, is all I meant by that... I should have just left the federal part out, because the guy didn't get charged at the federal level anyway, did he?

Anyways, as if this thread isn't full of enough nitpicking anyway... The point of that post is that there's a difference in "glitterbombing" your buddy and doing it in an aggressive manner to a public figure, or any stranger for that matter. When you're out in public, it doesn't take a ton to cause a public disturbance. Even tossing a water balloon, as relatively harmless as that may be, is going to be seen in a far different light when tossed at a stranger in aggression in public, rather that as a simple soaking of a friend in private.

But it changes nothing of my view here, that this is not a matter of big government. Assault laws are in place to protect individual liberty, not strip it.

 

[RockEnds]

Just to put things in proper perspective here. Chances are ya throw glitter dust on me and it ain't no cha cha party I am gonna throw a hit at you for violating my space and thinking yer gonna get the better of me out of nowhere. Romney shoulda decked the pantywaist.


Rev9

I feel the same way. And I'm a girl.

 

[TheGrinch]

Just to put things in proper perspective here. Chances are ya throw glitter dust on me and it ain't no cha cha party I am gonna throw a hit at you for violating my space and thinking yer gonna get the better of me out of nowhere. Romney shoulda decked the pantywaist.


Rev9

A good succinct (albeit a bit aggressive yourself ) way to put it.

I think too many are letting their emotions that they feel about Romney justify an action that you wouldn't want done to you. Imagine if you're at a rally and Romney came up and threw a glitter-bomb in your face? Many of these same folks would be calling for his head.