Activists Throw Flour On Fur-Clad Lindsay Lohan

PARIS — U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Animal rights activists showered the 22-year-old actress with flour when she went to the VIP Room Theater in the early hours of Saturday with her friend, disc jockey Samantha Ronson.

The owner of the nightclub helped Lohan dust off her blue sequined dress and black stole before she posed on the red carpet. Ronson went on to spin tracks for a crowd that included reggae rapper Shaggy and "I Kissed a Girl" singer Katy Perry.

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[woodcut]

I heard this joke:
If they'd thrown flour + eggs, they'd be charged with assault and BATTER !
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ps. I support their actions. It made the news. LOTS of hip-hop female singers are wearing fur lately = Mary J Blige, etc. Someone needs to call them on it because fur involves horrendous suffering.
A person can eat meat and still object to fur. One need not be perfect to object to cruelty, imo.

[mapoleaf]

Good. Fur hags deserve no less.

[1manisland]

Isn't PETA bothered that Lindsay and Samantha eat meat ? I mean they both love eating beaver correct ? LOL !!!!!!!

[1manisland]

When life deals you Flour - make Bread ! Ooops - It was supposed to be Lemons and Lemonade. Anyway - who cares. Now Samantha knows that if she rolls her in flour, she can find Lohans wet spot!

[DaisyDooks]

Ewww!

[QueenCeleste]

What is wrong with these young actresses? Why is it so hard to show a little compassion and wear faux? Shame.

[jcwtts1]

PETA lost me when they took a hardliner stance against cancer drugs. I mean, I get no cruelty, but cancer drugs...? Give me a break. Any group so lost to reason is a joke.

J

[RJII]

Good one Peta.
Not one animal should suffer so cruel and needlessly for shallow people to wear a fur.
Lohan wasn't walking the red carpet in Antarctica.

[Bystander]

So how do you feel about people (celebrities or not) wearing leather shoes and belts or using pig heart valves implanted in defective human hearts, etc.?

[chirps]

There's a difference between raising livestock and trapping wild animals. There's also a difference between what is needed and what is vanity.

[spiderbucket]

All of these 'celebrities' should be attacked whenever they appear anywhere fur or not.

[chirps]

Is that you, Charles Manson? Geez.

[DaisyDooks]

LOL

[majorteddy]

Why won't they just leave Lindsay alone. They have just decioded they are going to ruin her, no matter what

[RSal]

are there any pics of this anywhere?

[happiness seeker]

I'm amazed why people can't find better things to do. Thousands of people die every day due to extreme poverty, so many people are caught in great difficulty every second and they don't give a damn. If wearing the skin of a dead animal is a crime, then throwing flour on anyone is a more hideous crime.

[cucumber]

Back in the sl.ave days, lots of whites thought black folks shouldn't be helped until every white person was out of poverty, had an education, had land, and so on. They scorned the abolitionists for working on something so trivial. I know where you would have fit in.

"One should always be wary of talking of "the last remaining form of discrimination." If we have learnt anything from the liberation movements, we should have learnt how difficult it is to be aware of latent prejudice in our attitudes to particular groups until this prejudice is forcefully pointed out.

A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons and an extension or reinterpretation of the basic moral principle of equality. Practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable come to be seen as the result of an unjustifiable prejudice. Who can say with confidence that all his or her attitudes and practices are beyond criticism? If we wish to avoid being numbered amongst the oppressors, we must be prepared to re-think even our most fundamental attitudes. We need to consider them from the point of view of those most disadvantaged by our attitudes, and the practices that follow from these attitudes."
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer02.htm

[loofa]

beautiful. really wonderful and thoughtful comment. and so very true. To think that one form of suffering should equal silence on another is short sighted, and to think that non-violent protest in the name of saving the lives of future animals might be thought of as a crime is a loss of perspective and compassion. My thanks to the good folks who keep on trying to bring to light that cruelty and violence are not good fashion

[G24]

Beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to articulate that.

[QueenCeleste]

Beautifully said.

[DaisyDooks]

Oh great, blacks are compared to gay civil rights, now to animal rights.

[Vickster]

I met some "fur farmers" a few years ago. They own two hundred acres of wetlands and stocked the creeks that run through their land with otters. In the winter, when the fur is prime, they live-trap otters, euthanizing them with a lethal dose of chloroform. After the pelts are harvested, the meat is thrown back to the remaining otters.

I also know people who hunt raccoons for their pelts. There were a few years when many didn't bother because fur boycotts had driven the price paid for pelts down to a paltry sum. This in turn may have led to the recent rise in rabies. (Ten animals per acre, for example, are less likely to have contact with other animals than, say, thirty animals per acre and are therefore less likely to spread disease.)

[cucumber]

I wonder how many died in the live traps from stress? I wonder how long they stayed in those live traps? There is nothing more terrifying for a wild animal than to be trapped. I wonder how many mothers were trapped, leaving babies to starve? I wonder if they would have preferred to live rather than being made into a coat? I wonder why someone would call being ki.lled for fur "euthanized"? That seems weird! I thought "euthanized" meant it was for the animals' sake. I wonder if it was really so painless and easy as you imagine? When my cat who was really sick was lovingly euthanized at the vet, he was still terrified at the process. I wonder why people try to frame making money and a fashion statement off the literal backs of animals as somehow "good" for the animals. There are lots of starving and diseased people in Africa. I'll bet if you hunted them, disease would go down there too!

[Vickster]

Dear Cucumber,
I have no idea how many otters died in those traps from stress, although I suspect it's quite a few since these people check their traps every day. As for any otter mamas who were trapped ("leaving babies to starve"), most animals give birth in the spring and summer when food is more abundant. That's how they evolved. Also, I suggest that your cat was terrified of the car ride to the vet when he was euthanized. Believe me, he had no idea what your intention was.

As for fashion, that's another issue. Indeed, what I find more disturbing are people who use live animals as fashion accessories.
Sincerely, Vicki

[poorfella]

Why doesn't anyone seem to get that the reason animal rights protesters participate in this type of highly visible "protest" is that it gets a lot of attention?

I doubt that these activists enjoy throwing flour, and I am sure that the perpetrators are perfectly prepared to accept the consequences, legal and otherwise. But, they do it because it works. It gets masses of people in conversations about animal rights (people like us) and thereby raises awareness. Traditional education campaigns will never get as much bang for the buck..

Many of you express legitimate outrage. Fine. If someone throws flour at you, go ahead and do your worst. But accept the fact that there are others who feel so outraged over the barbaric culling of animals, they believe that relatively benign (flour thrown on clothing) "assault" is completely justified given the stakes (the plight of the animals).

Civil rights activists broke a lot of laws and had a whole lotta people pissed off at them too. Hello Barrack Obama!

[Kimsue]

Terrorism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.

This is terrorism. If you believe wearing fur is wrong, then get the laws changed. Intimidating people to further your cause is terrorism. If you are supporting this behavior, you are no different than the people who supported the 9/11 attacks because they believed the USA's foreign policies to be wrong.

Your personal beliefs do NOT supercede others' freedoms, no matter how just you believe them to be. If you think something is immoral, TEACH others. Terrorizing is not the way to go in a free society. Haven't we learned anything in the past eight years?

[cucumber]

Re. driving a plane into a building = flour on a coat, your blurring of actions is preposterous.

How do you think the U.S. came to be a country? Il.legal direct action. How do you think every op.pressed group has gotten freedom? It includes direct action in every case. Gandhi was backed up by actions and a th.reat (read some history, don't spout the common incorrect wisdom).

Also, reconsider what you think is "freedom." You're willing to lock up a child mo.lester, no? What about his freedom? Well, what about the freedom of those animals to live their lives? Whose freedom you are concerned with depends on what perspective you take. If a child's being h.urt do you step in? If an animal's being h.urt do you? Are you willing to h.urt someone to make them stop h.urting a child? How about if you could toss some flour on a coat to make someone stop h.urting a child?

Someone doesn't have the right to enslave another, right? Well, that used to be legal (and you would have been standing right there making sure no sl.aves or abolitionists broke the law for freedom, because it was "wrong"). Guess what, sl.aveholders didn't give up sla.ves without a fight.

Lindsay Lohan has been educated. She's seen videos/literature. Some people are selfish and no amount of education will sway them. See http://www.furisdead.com http://www.furkills.org

[Clavis]

"Non-violent protest" means sit-downs and hunger fasts. I don't remember Gandhi throwing flour on anyone. I agree it was harmless and the penalty shouldn't be severe, but assault is assault. For all the attacker knew, Lindsay Lohan is allergic to wheat products and could've had respiratory failure. Or maybe she might have mistaken it for cocaine and started sniffing it, leading to nasal bleeding and flour-on-the-brain.

Yes, animal rights are important, as are human rights. We also, as a society, have to prioritize. If I had to choose between freeing pets and freeing slaves (there are still lots and lots of human slaves on Earth right this oment), I'd have to go for the humans. Sorry. Of course you can do both at the same time, but please don't get haughty and spiteful when someone proclaims that they have prioritized differently than you.

[slaxx]

i would be annoyed if someone just attacked me because i have different beliefs or morals than they do, but i think peta's pretty justified.

it's just flour. brush it off and move on.

[cucumber]

No, don't move on just yet, make some hyperbolic statements about how it's JUST THE SAME as when people drive buildings into airplanes thereby ki.illing 3,000 people *roll eyes*