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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[BannedInBoston]

FLOUR B.OMB SONG

A hundred million animals
A hundred million animals are sl.aughter­ed every year
And those who say they don't agree
Are those who do not hear or see.
A hundred million animals
A hundred million animals are sl.aughter­ed every year.

My father says that humans keep k.illing,
Their w.ounds keep bl.eeding too.
My father says he doesn't know why,
But somehow or other they do.
--They do! somehow or other they do.--

[BannedInBoston]

FLOWER BOMB SONG

A hundred million animals
A hundred million animals are sl.aughter­ed every year
And those who say they don't agree
Are those who do not hear or see.
A hundred million animals
A hundred million animals are sl.aughter­ed every year.

My father says that humans keep k.illing,
Their w.ounds keep bl.eeding too.
My father says he doesn't know why,
But somehow or other they do.
--They do! some how or other they do.--

[Mainer36]

'fur not for

[Mainer36]

The Republican Party is waiting for most of your anthropocentrists to join it. If any of you who say your against for but think PETA goes too far, then you really have never seen even a picture of a live mink being skinned. IGNORANT

[BannedInBoston]

Personally, I think people who wear mink (or any other animal skins) ought to have worse than flour thrown at them....

[BannedInBoston]

Always excepting the Innuit and other tribespeople who do so out of necessity not choice....

[BannedFromCommenting]

Hey, banned, did you get banned too? Its why I have it in my name!!

I am with you!!! These dopes have no idea the reality.. let them visit a fur from from beginning to end.. they will change their tune

[Sparty1]

They wouldn't do that to Aretha Franklin. That Detroit would come out and she'd rip all those skinny Vegans to shreds!

[Bushwillresign]

How do they know the fur is real?
How do they know the activists are real?
How do they know who the activists are?
People shouldn't be attacked for wearing animal products. Find a different way to stop the wearing of animal products which should stop the purchasing of animal products which should stop the harvesting of animal products, which will stop the attack of people that wear animal products.

[LGrace]

Animals shouldn't be anally electrocuted and skinned alive because fur hags think stoles are cute. How about everyone wears their own skin?

[BannedInBoston]

Although an.al electrocution does have a certain appeal for some human beings I can think of (who shall remain nameless..­.)

[BannedInBoston]

Huh?

[TroubleNYC]

Why is this not assault?

[alieninvader]

If you are the type of person that would press assault charges for having flour thrown on you, you shouldn't be allowed out in public.

[xxnounxx]

i would press charges and never back down..what if that flour entered my eyes?? dont you concider it dangerous,what if i had an aklergy to flour,or an allergy to peta people?
those people shoild be caged

[xxnounxx]

it is an asault

[BannedFromCommenting]

with your spelling soon it will be "a salt"

Boo hoo, she will survive to buy another fur another day

[BannedInBoston]

Oh, go vote Republican!

[BlueZoo]

It is defined as "assault" in France and every other country in the Western Hemisphere! I don't know why these people don't press charges against these idiots who throw flour, paint, etc., on them!

[bobdevo]

The idiots are the people wearing fur.

[mtaylor90028]

Down with P ETA. Not nice people at all...

[LGrace]

Who said it was PETA?

[Monrocsol]

Down with you.

I AGREE WITH PETA 100000000%

ANIMALS SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. AND IF WE ARE GOING TO EAT THEM, WE SHOULD AT LEAST TREAT THEM HUMANELY AND GIVE THEM A GOOD LIFE!

[marymansour]

I like PETA but where were they when the wolves were being slaughtered for their feet in Alaska under Palin's orders? Defenders of Wildlife stepped to the plate.

[alieninvader]

No one was hurt, except the animals that were brutally murdered to make the stole. Who are the not nice people again?

[drec1500Madrid]

Hey, I love animals, especially when they are delicious.

[cucumber]

did Bush's education system leave you behind?

[LGrace]

Eaten a cat lately?

[xxnounxx]

lagrace

seen you love animals so much more than human,,i advice you to look out for the birds,the birds soon will have nothing to eat......a­ll you people would have eaten all their crop',seeds.

by the way i loveeeeeee­eeeeeeeeee animals,i happen to have amazing arabian horses,wonderfull

i know i am being harsh..i would never pay money or buy fur...but i would never destroy or not wear a fur coat handed down to me by grandmothe­r..and have it destroyed by some lunatic.

[Forester]

Lindsay should read Silence of the Lambs, but she seems a tad tacky to be reading anything.

[SekhmetHathor]

Just because you have a problem with fur doesn't mean you have to go around acting like a j@ck@$$. You only hurt your own cause by such immature and erratic actions.

[goosegoose]

you are sooooooo wrong..
Lohan and her like will not be see wearing fur in public..

the PR damage is too great..see­..it works!

or maybe we should just send her e-mails telling her we disapprove ...

you do it your way and we;ll do it ours...you­rs will fail and our way will help

prevent the death of more fur bearing animals...­.

I go for the route that works..sui­t yourself.

[unfettered]

I'm against fur too but, PETA demonstrations always makes you guys look like the lunatics.

[CurtisEMayle]

"I go for the route that works..sui­t yourself."

So to utilize both your logic and your permission, when I find your comments objectionable, I can bust you in the chops to shut you up.

[mojodaddy]

There is an article on the front page of nytimes.com right now that talks about all the horrific things being done to human beings in the Congo in the pursuit of tin, which is then used to make cell phones and laptops. Are we to start throwing flour at anyone talking on a cell phone? Sorry if that's anthropocentric of me. But I am, after all, a human.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/world/africa/16congo.html

[poorfella]

Mojodaddy, your point is good and well demonstrates the philosophical nature of these discussions.

My answer to your questions is that, yes in an ideal world we should be (metaphorically) throwing flour at cell-phone users. But it is a very imperfect world that we live in, and as individuals it is very difficult to tackle outrages like this. That is why people who want to get involved take personal action where they can, boycott products and look to groups willing to take action and mobilize others into action. The reporters for the NYT do an important service in highlighting this issue and hopefully it will have an impact.

[RealityBeatsDenial]

Then do we have to throw flour at ourselves ???

[mojodaddy]

Fair enough, and if someone is moved by a particular outrage and chooses to become involved in some way, then that's all good. Often, however, one gets the sense that certain of these folks seem to be passing judgment on others, people who perhaps are moved by different outrages, or who choose to become involved in other ways. They are called "anthropocentric" or accused of having no souls, or are equated with Republicans. Which of course, just makes these folks seem unserious and demagogic and, frankly, a bit Palinesque.

[goosegoose]

human yes... and dork? yep that too.

it's called defending those that cannot defend themselves­...get it??

it's really quite simple.

[mojodaddy]

Oh, thank you. Now I get it. And what a relief that it is so very simple! If you wouldn't mind educating me a bit more, please tell me, how many sacks of flour does it take to defend one defenseless furry animal?

[pfc1369]

I'd love to throw flour on everyone using a cell phone!

[BannedInBoston]

Especially when they're walking along the sidewalk yakking into TWO cell phones, one per ear....

[mounthood]

Myself, I'm all for protecting cabbage rights. Anyone cooking cabbage or making cole slaw should be ostracized. After all, in a previous life a cabbage head may have been a Republican.

[BannedInBoston]

We would have to boycott tin altogether. I'm not at all averse to that idea, although it sounds difficult. We'd first need to make up a list of products that use tin, and then boycott ALL of them. One problem with boycotts like this, though, is that it hurts the workers, even exploited workers, worse than it hurts the corporations that employ them.

In the case of furs, the "workers" are the people who actually kill and sell the animals, so I am not at all averse to "hurting" them.

A final word on tactics. I am not sure about violent tactics or where to draw the line. Flour-bombs seem harmless enough, though, and do make the point. Setting fire to SUVs not so much.

[xxnounxx]

mojodaddy
tell those lost people
tell them to throw away or destroy their computers and laptops,and mobiles
remind them these three products also contribute to the destroction of the palnet...d­eforastati­on

[woodcut]

Saying a person has to be a vegan in order to object to fur, is like saying a person has to be a virgin in order to promote responsible sex education.
One need not be "perfect" to stop suffering of others.

[Takae]

Good point.

[realityczech4u]

Then where do you draw the line, woody? How much exploitation of animals is OK? Just enough to satisfy your hunger and no more? Methinks that if you're so much of a fanatic in this area that you will assault other people, you had better be walking the walk yourself on a very fine line.

[mojodaddy]

What does the flour mean? Is she supposed to go and bake the minks into a pie?

[RealityBeatsDenial]

Wickedly bad ...... I mean really, really bad ..... but definitely original (just can't help but LOL).

[realityczech4u]

LOL. Who the h ell knows what it means? These loons believe there is some sort of profound symbolism that people are supposed to "get". All I see is a bunch of thugs who have committed an assault and should be locked up. They are no different than the Brownshirts.

[Takae]

lmao! That's quite funny. In a morbid way.

[Mainer36]

Most of you posters are either dangerously underinformed or without souls.

[SekhmetHathor]

Nope, it's just part of life that people will disagree with your strategy. There are much more productive ways to help animals and you know it... Whether or not your willing to admit it is an entirely different thing.

[poorfella]

There are blogs like this today all over the internet debating this issue--which, by the way, is much bigger than just whether or not it was OK to throw flour at Lohan. I actuallyt doubt that there are much more productive ways than this of getting the conversation going. Education and outreach cost $, a bag of flour is cheap.

You may not agree with it, but it works and that's why activists do this stuff.

[BannedInBoston]

Or Republicans or all three....