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David Gilmour's son Charlie is jailed for education fees protest.

posted 13 years ago by peterdow
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Hey, Judges! Leave them kids alone!

BBC: Charlie Gilmour jailed for student fees demo violence - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14150800

Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for 16 months for a rampage at a student fees protest in central London.

Gilmour, 21, was accused of throwing a bin at a convoy of cars containing Prince Charles, sitting on a protection officer's car and smashing a window.

The Cambridge University student, of Billingshurst, West Sussex, was bailed in May so he could finish his exams.

Kingston Crown Court heard he had taken LSD and valium before the incident.
Gilmour was among thousands of people who protested in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square on 9 December 2010.

We don't need no education fees.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the court room.
Judges, leave them kids alone.
Hey, Judges! Leave them kids alone!
All in all, you're just a-nother brick in the wall.

We Dont Need No Education - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTpZpwjtIE

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[–] hallogallo 13 years ago

If he'd just have sat on the bonnet of the royal protection officers car I'd have had sympathy for him as that's pretty funny. However he blew it in most people's eyes (including myself and I am sure the judge) by drunkenly swinging from the Cenotaph.

I mean, what better way to prove yourself a spoilt ignorant over-privileged little prick? I'm all for public disorder and violent protest but that clueless idiot crossed the line the moment he defiled that monument and fully deserves any punishment he got.

"I think you're a load of old crap too, Mr Mulligan."

[–] peterdow 13 years ago

hallogallo http://www.imdb.com/user/ur3844142/boards/profile/ wrote:

If he'd just have sat on the bonnet of the royal protection officers car I'd have had sympathy for him as that's pretty funny. However he blew it in most people's eyes (including myself and I am sure the judge) by drunkenly swinging from the Cenotaph.

I mean, what better way to prove yourself a spoilt ignorant over-privileged little prick? I'm all for public disorder and violent protest but that clueless idiot crossed the line the moment he defiled that monument and fully deserves any punishment he got.

It would be better if those who fought and died in our armed forces had fought for our freedom. Probably many thought they were fighting for freedom. That was what they were led to believe but it turns out not to be the case. They were misled. Tricked. Their lives sacrificed for a false prospectus.

Instead of our freedom, it seems that they fought and died so that worshipping a certain large block of vertical limestone in Whitehall, London with the offering of many poppy wreaths to the great god of the standing stone after the monarch every year should be compulsory on pain of punishment.

It seems that the blood of our soldiers was spilled so that anyone demonstrating against or disrespecting said mighty-slab worship is to be denied their freedom.

"All hail the inviolable monument, or else! " ... (Sarcasm)

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[–] hallogallo 13 years ago

Sorry, I just had to go and change my trousers as I managed to evacuate my bowls I was laughing so much...

Charlie Gilmour is a vile prick who deserves his worldwide humiliation. He isn't any sort of rebel or hero, he is an idiot who proved himself to be completely out of touch with the vast majority of even the very people he was supposedly protesting along with.

Also, you're not telling me that he didn't set out that morning thinking "Even if I do get in trouble with the Police Daddy will send one of his expensive layers* and I'll be free again in a matter of hours"

Well your little plan backfired on you didn't it Tarquin?

* Possibly they very same one who told his Dad to add a nice big pair of bollocks to the flying pig during the "Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour", that way Mr. Waters can't sue you for copyright infridgment LOL

"I think you're a load of old crap too, Mr Mulligan."