Remember that time President Xi had the former president Hu Jintao hauled away on live television?

This annual shareholders meeting at Berkshire Hathaway had a little bit of that vibe happening, as one their shareholders was forcibly removed for suggesting Warren Buffet has harmed the company with his "philanthropy." The shareholder called for him to be removed as chairman of the board.

The shareholder in question is Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog organization specializing in corporate governance.

Here's a video of what he said that got Buffet riled:

"If we had an independent chair, the Company would be less identified with Mr. Buffett's political activities. He's donated tens of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As Bill Gates explained, when the company was still together, although the company bears our names, basically half our resources have come from Warren Buffet.

"If ‘woke' culture is a disease, then philanthropy is the virus. The Gates Foundation bankrolls the teaching of Critical Race Theory around the country, including that math is inherently racist. The Gates Foundation offers a Gender Identity Toolbox which asserts that gender is the result of ‘socially and culturally constructed ideas.' This is a lie. Gender is not a cultural construct. It is a genetic and biological fact."

At this point, the crowd begins to shuffle nervously, and then Flaherty turns to someone and says,

"You are not going to censor what I say, ma'am. I'm very sorry. And I appeal to the Chair that I be allowed to continue. Sir?"

Buffet tells him to continue but to keep it under three minutes.

This next line is the best and what gets him dragged off.

"Of Course," Flaherty said. "We know how much Bill Gates cares about children. He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes."

The crowd erupts in boos and hisses, and then Warren Buffet tells the tech boys to cut his mike, and security and the police descend on Flaherty.

Flaherty was charged with criminal trespassing, despite being a shareholder at a shareholders meeting. He later commented,

"I was treated like any other criminal, fingerprinted, handcuffed. I've always been courteous with decorum at the annual shareholder meetings. I didn't raise my voice. I was not disruptive."

I guess in some ways he's lucky he just got arrested and released with a $2,500 bail and didn't get himself Epsteined, considering who was in attendance at the meeting.

Talk about walking into the dragon's den and kicking the beast in the mouth.