![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonThe trial of Michael stone, lunatic, spree killer and Performance Artist, continues, for his attempted attack on Stormont , in which after making his way very slowly up the Very Long Drive (bear in mind he is a well know and Very Recognisable person) to Stormont, daubed graffitti over the walls of Parliament Buildings, he was finally thwarted by a revolving door.
The building was evacuated by the Speaker, trying to shut up the assembled politicions and eventually resorting to "ORDER! Unless you want to sit here and get bombed" (you really couldn't make this up ;p)
Yesterday, he got have his say on teh stand.
His defence - it was Performance Art to enliven the peace process (which, I guess it did), and he was "...a comic parody of my former self" - which he has also managed. So well done there. It actually sounds like he could be serious. Or deranged.
Of course the fact that he had a replica gun, nail bombs, knives and a garotte was also only part of the act. Honest.
My new favourite bit is this tho - he dyed his hair and goatee beard so he would not look "overweight and grey-haired" in front of the world's media and press gathered for the day's events".
(all from here )
We do breed a very special kind of lunatic here.
ETA there is MOAR
The prosecution have described him as "an egocentric killer with a penchant for publicity" , which sounds about right.
Also, he once planned to assassinate Ken Livingstone. Which is nice.
The building was evacuated by the Speaker, trying to shut up the assembled politicions and eventually resorting to "ORDER! Unless you want to sit here and get bombed" (you really couldn't make this up ;p)
Yesterday, he got have his say on teh stand.
His defence - it was Performance Art to enliven the peace process (which, I guess it did), and he was "...a comic parody of my former self" - which he has also managed. So well done there. It actually sounds like he could be serious. Or deranged.
Of course the fact that he had a replica gun, nail bombs, knives and a garotte was also only part of the act. Honest.
My new favourite bit is this tho - he dyed his hair and goatee beard so he would not look "overweight and grey-haired" in front of the world's media and press gathered for the day's events".
(all from here )
We do breed a very special kind of lunatic here.
ETA there is MOAR
The prosecution have described him as "an egocentric killer with a penchant for publicity" , which sounds about right.
Also, he once planned to assassinate Ken Livingstone. Which is nice.
