Posted on 08/27/2002 5:08:27 AM PDT by MindBender26
Book: Hillary Used 'Etiquette Squads' to Bust Up Protests
A former advance man for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has confessed that her campaign used "etiquette squads" to drive hecklers away at rallies, raising new questions about a March 2000 incident where several reporters were assaulted while trying to cover then-candidate Clinton as crowds booed her during the St. Patrick's Day parade.
Patrick Halley's new book, "On the Road with Hillary," is a largely favorable portrait of the White House hopeful, seen through the eyes of the man whose job from 1992 to 2000 was to make sure Mrs. Clinton was viewed in the best light possible.
That meant that the Boston native was in charge of picking the right TV-friendly settings, the right props and the right photo-ops, according to an account of his book in Sunday's Boston Herald, which also noted:
"Things usually didn't get that dramatic for Halley, though he did help set up so-called 'etiquette squads' to help drive disrupters away from rallies."
During her 2000 bid for the Senate, Mrs. Clinton's campaign became notorious for the heavy-handed way it kept her shielded from reporters and protesters alike.
One particularly ugly altercation took place as she marched in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade, where she was greeted by block after block of booing throngs.
As Mrs. Clinton pushed through the heckling crowd surrounded by her security and a phalanx of reporters, suddenly violence erupted. The scene was described during a live WABC radio report by Metro Network News reporter Glenn Schuck, who assumed that Secret Service were responsible for the thug-like tactics:
"Secret Service agents literally are pushing press to the ground. They just lost their minds, in my opinion," he told WABC's Sean Hannity.
"I mean they just started pushing and shoving; female camera people five feet tall were getting thrown to the ground, cameras flying. Myself, I was grabbed by the shoulder, I was thrown back over. I think somebody from Channel 11 landed on my back. From that point it really didn't get any better." (See: Hillary's Secret Service Agents Rough Up Reporters as St. Pat's Crowd Boos)
A few days later, a caller to WOR Radio's Bob Grant Show reported that she and her family were also accosted by Clinton's protest-busters along the parade route.
"Maureen" said that after her family had joined the crowd in jeering Mrs. Clinton, "they were surrounded by men in trench coats with radios." They told Maureen that since Mrs. Clinton was first lady that they "did not have the right" to heckle, she told Grant. "We think you should stop this now," the Clinton handlers ordered.
Were these incidents - and dozens of other similarly heavy-handed encounters with Hillary's handlers - the work of not the Secret Servicebut instead Clinton's protest-busting "etiquette squads"?
Author Halley could not be reached by press time to respond to that question.
"Were these incidents - and dozens of other similarly heavy-handed encounters with Hillary's handlers - the work of not the Secret Servicebut instead Clinton's protest-busting "etiquette squads"?"
Buy a trench coat, sunglasses, a pass pin in your label and a radio earphone in your ear... go with 10 people so dressed, who is going to question you?
LOL! I'd pay cold hard cash to watch that!
In any case we can see the official Hillary policy on the First Amendment: zero tolerance.
Right after that parade there was another parade and I overheard some of the group talking that they would get more money if they did the other parade too.
The perps were vicious too and one of our freepers was poked in the eye. I am suprised none of us got hurt as they were running down street trying to block us ect.
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" —pg 32 --- 1984
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." —Syme, pg 46-47 --- 1984
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But I propose another term be used to describe these lowlifes, perhaps not familiar by many on FR.
It is a Spanish term, called 'turbas'. It means, 'the divine gangs'.
This concept was started in Communist Cuba and perfected later in Nicaragua under the communist Sandinistas.
Here is a reference:
"This is a crock of shit (about elections under Ortega the communist being fair). The elections in Nicaragua were about as "free and fair" as those held in every other Marxist country. The Sandinistas used turbas divinas to break up opposition rallies with clubs, machetes, & rocks, an idea that they got from Castro."
Hillary simply employed 'turbas' to fortify her thirst for raw power over the masses. It is so clear. And she would do the very same in a quest for the Presidency or otherwise to hold on to dictatorial powers therein.....
I bet Orwell is spinning because he didn't coin this one.
Honestly, who the hell voted for this witch? I spent a lot of time in NY (upstate and in the city) during the year of her election and I have yet to encounter an area where she has a following. I would not be one bit suprised if it were revealed that she gained her senate seat through the typical Democrat vote fraud machine.
Hypothetically, it would have been interesting if something major happened involving one of her "etiquette squads". I'm sure the national exposure would have been good for her political ambitions.
No thanks, pass.
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