Pink Floyd Guitarist’s Son Jailed for LSD-Fueled Attack on Royals

[onehandle]

Jeff Neumann — Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, was sentenced to 16 months in jail today for attacking a royal Jaguar that was part of Prince Charles and Camilla's motorcade during a student riot in London last year. The riot resulted in the best photograph of British royals ever (above). The court watched video from the attack, where Gilmour yelled:

"Let them eat cake, let them eat cake, they say. We won't eat cake, we will eat fire, ice and destruction, because we are angry, very fucking angry."

Gilmour had dropped acid and taken Valium shortly before saying this. That sounds about right.



http://gawker.com/5821511/pink-floyd-guitarists-son-jailed-for-lsd+fueled-attack-on-royals

[midnight]

1. Wow....I wonder how much time the Rubert Murdock folks get for

hacking the royals...

[closeupready]

2. Much more, IMHO.

It's one thing to do stupid things as a student. We all did stupid things as youngsters.

It's a far more grave matter when a member of the establishment attacks (even if attack here is meant in the virtual sense) the figurehead of your society's social order.

But who knows, I could be very wrong.

[malaise]

3. I think James Murdoch and Brooks will end up in prison for bribing that

man in the royal police (the equivalent of the Secret Service) to get the royal phone book.
I think the press are going with the populist story about the hacking of the murdered 13 year old girl being the last straw, but common sense tells me that the security invasion against the royals was the ultimate last straw. That a newspaper could do that should frighten every society.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Not surprised. That Valium will FUCK YOU UP!!!!

And the pic of the stoopid-ass royals is priceless.

:P

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Will be be required to eat his meat if he wants to have pudding in prison?

[MrScorpio]

6. All in all, looks like Charlie is going to be another brick in the wall

I bet that he thought that his money would save him. After all. it's a gas.

[BeFree]

8. Wrong

He is not another brick in the wall. He is trying to take down the wall.

I wonder: were he drunk on ale if this would be a headline?

Of course it would. The son of one of our culture's icons doing anything to make a statement against the 'wall' simply must be trashed.

[MrScorpio]

Drunk, high, it's all the same to me

Protesting is one thing, violent action is another.

[Zorra]

12. Yeah! That horrible George Washington should have been executed for what he did

to the British monarchy!

Fucking peasants don't know their place.

It's all relative...

[MrScorpio]

16. Yeah, Killing part off the British Monarchy in the streets of London

That would have saved the universe

[Zorra]

17. Well, maybe a strongly worded letter would have garnered more attention.

That always works for Harry Reid.

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. Trustfundican

Poor little rich kid. All angry and stuff.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. Could be worse. He could be a College Rethuglican. Or a DU pablum puking critic.

[guitar man]

9. Hello

Is there anybody in there? :silly:

[TBF]

10. Solidarity Charlie. Thank you for fighting for what you believe in.

Charlie certainly is a "rich kid" and he could very easily just enjoy his money and go about his life. Instead he chooses to acknowledge the injustices that are laid out before us. I applaud his actions and wish him safety while incarcerated. JMHO.

[MisterP]

11. cor! en't that Dave Gilmour's son?

Wales: yeh! yeh, 'e is--en' 'e's lobbin' stuff with the rest o' 'em!
Cornwall: feck!
Wales: double feck!

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. lol! n/t

[WinkyDink]

14. "Clearly-Deluded Son of Very Wealthy Man Attacks Other Wealthy Man."

[joeybee12]

15. I think those two old sows in that car should be the ones on trial...nt

[LynneSin]

18. Jail? Seriously, wouldn't it been better served to have the kid to community service?

:eyes:

[WinkyDink]

20. Because being 21 AND attacking the heir to the British throne is not being a "kid"?

[LynneSin]

21. Because doing a few 1000 hours of community service would be of more use

I know that Prince Charles has several excellent charities he sponsers right there in Great Britian. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince%27s_Charities). I'm sure there is one that Gilmour's kid could spend time helping with that perhaps would make him mature a bit more and give back to the community.

[LeftishBrit]

22. The context is not being made clear...

This was in the context of a demonstration against the tripling of tuition fees and ending of the Educational Maintenance Allowance, organized by the National Union of Students. Mostly it went off very peacefully. It had nothing really to do with the royals, and a lot to do with Cameron and Clegg.

Whatever issues Gilmour has with the royal family, and whatever drugs he'd taken, a lot of us wish that he'd stayed at home, and not caused trouble that was inevitably used by the Tories and anti-student types to try and discredit the demonstration and the students' cause.

I do agree with Lynne that community service would have been better than a prison term. I also agree that Murdoch and his sleaze gang deserve a lot more severe punishment than he does.