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Tom Morello arrested in LA

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Audioslave and former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello was arrested in Los Angeles yesterday after protesting for immigrant hotel workers' rights.

Morello was one of around 2,000 protesters who blocked the main road (Century Boulevard) to the city's international airport, LAX. He refused to move when requested to do so, and was subsequently arrested.

Prior to joining the protest, Morello said:

"In these political dark ages, it's important for us to stand up for one another. These hotel workers by the airport make twenty per cent less wages than hotel workers around the rest of Los Angeles.

"We're here to express our solidarity with them, to help them unionize and to help them close the gap between their sub-poverty wages and the millions and millions of dollars the people who own these hotels make."

Word on the MTV grapevine is that Morello set out to get arrested in the first place. That he succeeded is, we suppose, a result for the man - after all, he set out to make a good third album with Audioslave, Revelations, but rather spectacularly failed.



  • Fair play to him

  • ...

    REFORM RAGE.

    • Nah it'd be shit.

      At least he didn't got his cock out.

      • mike diver, you are an idiot.

        mtv grapevine? set out to be arrested? fuck off you talentless twat...

        • what's your point this time?

          • i know you too well...

            i wouldn't expect you to understand my point...

            will post a "cliff notes" version later if i have time...

            but keep trying... you might get it...

            • no, really.

              what is your point? you haven't made the vaguest rambling attempt this time, you just launched into the insults.

              • really busy right now...

                will post later...

        • now, I'm sure Diver can back up his own journalism if he wants to

          but you've clearly either overindulged at lunch or have the mental capacity of a 5 year old.

          Facts are, Morello AND a lot of other people on this march planned to get arrested (a not-unheard of event in the world of mass protest, I might add) and even fore-warned the cops about their intentions.

          I read this on the MTV site and, seeing as some people like to know what former members of good bands are up to, Diver reported it here.

          Nothing more to it, I'm afraid.

          Quite what your fucking problem is, I don't know, but instead of posting mindless fucking drivel and pissing me and other readers off, why don't you scrape that fecal matter off your keyboard, crawl back in your cave and stick that typing digit back up your rancid arsehole where it belongs.

          Good lad.

          • ass licker...

            • i ain't licking ass, dear boy.

              and I'm not Mike Diver either. You've come on here, spouted pointless drivel and utter shite and you've pissed me off.

              Whatever your problem is, go and get it off your bitchtits somewhere else.

              • gee, you sound like a bitch...

          • ah i get it...

            you are mike diver...

            clever...

  • .

    It's been ten years since he wrote a good riff, which given the fact that before that he kinda owned the word riff, is pretty much an arrestable offence in itself. Having said that, cows don't get arrested when they block the roads in rural areas and neither do sheep, pigs don't tend to cross the roads but regardless, none of them have too much to say for themselves.

    • can you put your head further up your arse?

      • Hi, I'm Marlowx

        and I hate everyone

        • fuck off...

          i'm marlowx and i hate stupid people...

          • Hi i'm Marlowx

            and i'm American ;)

            • if it wasn't for americans you all would be speaking german now...

              ha ha

              • Guten Tag marlowx

                Ich heisse Ian. Wie gehts?

              • circular bullshit

                and in any case - the first law of the internet is that anyone who brings up WWII is a fuckwit.

                • so, you must be one of those wankers with no friends who lives on the net then?

                  who is into that, "first law of the internet" crap...

                  and has no sense of humor...

                  -=sigh=-

                  • yes

                    you're fucking hilarious; and yes, i do have a shit job at which i kill time on the internet - cheers for pointing that out.

              • if you knew your history, arschloch,

                youd know if it wasnt for the americans we would probably be speakin russian right now, considering the germans had failed on their eastern front and the russians were advancing, intent on going all the way.

                i wouldnt expect you to know that though.

                plus, if it wasnt for europeans, none of you redneck pricks wouldve been born. and the world would be a safer, cleaner and happier place.

              • Fairly unlikley

                actually.

                The German thing.

          • Get a room

            you fucking dirty nudgers !!

  • According

    to the Grauniad the march organisers arranged for a set number of people to be arrested with the Police. Sounds like he was when of the designated arresstees.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1883908,00.html

    • Copy

      and paste that including the bit at the end which isn't included in the link.

      • Or

        just type it in. Can't figure it out and I should be working now.

    • british newspaper?

      ha ha...

  • yeah

    i hate it when fucking "protesters" block the road when i'm trying to get somewhere.
    Earlier this year in Berlin I had to wait 2 hours before the road was clear....
    Arrest them all.

  • So, marlowx...

    Is an American? On behalf of my country I apologize. We don't want him either.

    And Tom Morello is a has-been.

    • Diver's angry again is he?

      Yawn.

      • I dont really care about this story

        But this American bloke is a bit of a cunt isn't he?

        • Yep.

          I wasn't going to post until I read his posts. What a sea urchin-shagging cunt

  • Don't tell him Pike!

    ...

    • Marlowx is mike diver

      he just wanted more posts :)

      • Tom Morello's dad was a gorilla

        *almost fact*

        • ...

          ive met tom morello, he was very nice.
          Short though....

  • ah

    What was he protesting about? Hotel workers rights? Probably works in a hotel now considering the abysmalness of Audio Slave- fucking hardrock cafe bullshit.