‘Al Pieda’ Targets Ann Coulter
Meet “Al Pieda” disciples Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff. The Tucson men, both 24, were arrested last night after throwing custard cream pies at author Ann Coulter during her speech at the University of Arizona. Portions of the pies connected with the conservative commentator’s face and shoulder, according to this police report, which quotes Smith saying that he and Wolff were “throwing the pies at her ideas not at her.”
Cops also noted that a post-arrest search of the assailants turned up “pieces of paper (propaganda) involving Coulter’s name and the explanation of ‘Al Pieda.’” Smith, a UA student, and Wolff were charged with criminal damage, a felony, and misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, vandalism, and assault without injury. The felony charge resulted from damage to a backdrop that school officials estimated at $3000. The report describes the woven cloth backdrop as a “muslim scrim.” The pie provocateurs were booked into the Pima County Jail–where the below mug shots were snapped–and scheduled for a court appearance today. If you’re wondering about the sheets Smith and Wolff are wearing, they’re not Bedouins. As a courtesy, the Pima jailers use them to cover the lockup’s standard-issue orange jumpsuits.
Al Pieda?? LOL Is this what you do when you don’t agree with someone’s views? You throw pies at them?
And ruin a perfectly decent pie???? Tragic!!
True to her good humor, Ann took it well, however: “From that far away they can’t even hit me?” she joked.
at last an answer to my problem… Ive started having...
9:18 pm on October 22nd, 2004
I love Ann…but she’s got to be used to having random desserts tossed at her. That’s standard operating procedure for a provocative conservative POV.
7:54 am on October 23rd, 2004
I thought this was funny, but I thought I was the only person allowed to use cartoon like antics in real life. If they weren’t in already in jail, I’d sue
9:11 am on October 23rd, 2004
lol Davey - hey did you get my email? Haven’t heard back from you at all, I was hoping you didn’t fall off the face of the earth over there!
9:12 am on October 23rd, 2004
Stacy - you’re right. but damn - waste of good pie!
11:56 am on October 23rd, 2004
I’ll check again, but I was looking for it and haven’t seen one yet. I just figured you were busy and you’d get to me when you could.
But send it again, so I know whats goin on with that.
12:19 pm on October 23rd, 2004
Ann Coulter rocks!
They argue they were only “throwing the pies at her ideas not at her.†Mmmmkay…so you won’t mind if we just shoot a few bullets at your ideas.
I’ve never understood the whole pie throwing phenomena. Assaulting someone doesn’t become OK because you did it with a pie…90 days in the county jail ought to teach them this simple fact.
4:41 pm on October 23rd, 2004
The “laft” always uses tactics like this, when was the last time Moore or Franklin were assulted when giving a lecture but let Alan Keyes come on the same campus and he is shouted down and called a racists by a bunch of white kids!!!
5:07 pm on October 23rd, 2004
ya’ll right, was a waste of good pie ..cowpie would have been more suitable
11:52 pm on October 23rd, 2004
There’s pie? Oh. Bummer. Wasted pie. You’re right, Lisa. That’s the crime here!
And it destroyed a “muslim scrim”? Hmm? “musliM”?
Of all the misspelt words … in an “Al Pieda” crime. Let’s hope it’s ’cause the police officer has a sense of humor.
4:05 am on October 26th, 2004
Ah, true, true, a waste of good pie. Not to worry though, there was delicious victory pie waiting for us when we got out of jail.
In response to Dougster, when Michael Moore spoke at the University of Arizona he had his speech interrupted by protestors several times and had many flip flops thrown at him. We waited until well into the Q&A period and threw soft, harmless, yummy, vegan pie.
Agent Tofu Cream, Al Pieda / BBB Tucson
3:34 pm on October 26th, 2004
It’s a shame Ann didn’t go and see them after they were booked and got to laugh in their faces. Or if she had 2 huge bodyguards and they just beat the living hell outta them.
5:25 pm on October 26th, 2004
We would have loved to have Ann come laugh in our faces. It would have shown she possesses a sense of humor.
Getting beat up would suck. Al Pieda never advocates harming human beings.
1:07 pm on October 29th, 2004
comment by Don — 10/23/2004
“Mmmmkay…so you won’t mind if we just shoot a few bullets at your ideas.”
So this hateful monger compares throwing a harmless pie in humor to shooting bullets at someone or their “ideas”
“Assaulting someone doesn’t become OK because you did it with a pie”
Poor baby, have you been “Assaulted” with a pie before and had your ego damaged beyond repair?
“90 days in the county jail ought to teach them this simple fact.”
They didn’t spend a night in jail you dork….and your previous comment wasn’t a fact, it was you stupid opinion….
Now go take your anger out on someone less fortunate and weaker than you may be, or just drink your dull brain to sleep.
1:13 pm on October 29th, 2004
comment by Todd — 10/26/2004
“It’s a shame Ann didn’t go and see them after they were booked and got to laugh in their faces. Or if she had 2 huge bodyguards and they just beat the living hell outta them.”
Of course Ann didn’t go see them, she doesn’t have the courage to actually face people like that. It’s easier to stand around and babble nonsense of hate and fear to mindless followers….makes her feel tough and courageous!!
And again, another hate monger who prefers having someone harmed by having the hell beat out of them….
Poor little sissy boy prolly got his ass kicked by daddy one too many times. Good! You probably deserved it anyways and thats why daddy never apologized for it.
4:17 pm on October 29th, 2004
Don, thanks for the defense. We did, in fact, spend a night in jail though. Well, not quite in jail, just in the holding tank. I got a good reminder of why I don’t do heroin - just watching the guy in the holding cell with me go through withdrawl was painful enough.
Agent Tofu Cream, Al Pieda / BBB Tucson
4:29 pm on October 29th, 2004
Al Pieda - however altruistic you feel your reasons were for doing what you did, you still broke the law and should suffer the consequences of that. You made the decision to do it - be a man and face the consequnces - that includes NOT peddling your “donate to our legal fund” link on my blog.
You’re man enough to do the crime - be man enough to pay your own way. If people are stupid enough to donate to your legal fund - that’s fine for them, but not on my blog. I firmly believe that people need to own their own bullshit and not look to the general public to pay for their stupid mistakes.
kthxs.
1:51 pm on October 30th, 2004
Lisa,
Sorry if I violated any of the house rules here. I was man enough to do the crime, and I’m man enough to pay my own way; the problem is, I’m not rich enough to pay my own way. I thought some readers might want to help out in that department. Per your request, I won’t post the donations link again.
Finally, what we did was not a “stupid mistake”. We stand by our actions.
Agent Tofu Cream, Al Pieda / BBB Tucson
http://www.alpieda.org
3:55 pm on December 2nd, 2004
Al-pieda? Ann Coulter? America we have hit an all time low. White college kids throwing pies at White conservatives? Wow! Someone is a little angry at mommy and daddy. America I hope this is a clear indication of the downfall and regression of our once great land.
“the Roman Empire started to decline. The reasons were political and economic, and they had problems with foreigners”
Hmmm, sound familiar?
And shame on you Ann Coulter for supporting racial profiling and singling out white America as innocent by standers in this whole non-sense terrorism thing. You asked for it.
Al-Pieda, very funny. I get it, but allot of uneducated Americans might take it the wrong way. Don’t stop, I’ll be making a donation soon. Not as a political contribution but for the sake of comedy.
America is on the verge of internal collapse, its very apparent every day. And Osama is in his cave all cozy with a starbucks coffee watching nightly news laughing at us with the rest of the world. America, WAKE UP! Are we going to continue being made fools of the rest of the world?
4:12 pm on December 2nd, 2004
“Mmmmkay…so you won’t mind if we just shoot a few bullets at your ideas.”
Hey thats it. Great idea. And after we’ve finished off all the free thinkers in this world then we’ll go after the Gays, blacks, and then the Jews. Or is it the other way around, I forget.
Lets hear it for fascism! Hip hip hooray!
7:48 pm on April 7th, 2005
Wow, assaulting unarmed women because you disagree with their views. Wow. Is this now a Leftist ideal?
As for two men who 1. assaulted a female for speaking her mind and 2. mostly missed her at close range — *snicker* how embarrassing. I’m sure you will look back when you are older with such PRIDE over this incident.
Being too poor to pay for your defense is something you should have thought about before committing a crime. You are so pathetic!