[rface]

Ashland, Missouri

[isthisnickcool]

Bummer! Time for a toga party! TOGA! TOGA!

[Dog]

LOL!!!!

People need to go read that link.....it is so funny!!!!

[rface]

Several dozen protesters were arrested Tuesday during demonstrations on the second day of the Democratic National Convention......Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Protesters arrested at (Clinton) White House ... UPI...29 December 1998 ...

Clinton Protester: police led him away in handcuffs....July 6, 2000 - Missouri

U.S. Park Police say they arrested 20 protesters in front of the (Clinton) White House (Tuesday) and charged them with demonstrating without a permit....12/30/97

[Right Wing Professor]

The New York Times and AP stories didn't even mention protests. There must have been an insignificant number of them.

[billsux]

Sounds to me like they were just engaging in a peaceful protest. Turning your back on him doesn't exactly sound to me like disruption or preventing people from hearing what GW had to say. Also, you don't find it a LITTLE disturbing that "Graduating students were told that they would be expelled and arrested if they turned their backs."??? I seem to recall someone a few years back being ejected from a Gore speech and all holy hell breaking loose about it. How is this any different? If you had a problem with that but not this (or vice versa for Libs) doesn't that make you a hypocrite? (using "you" in a general sense, not you specifically rface)

[First_Salute]

Correction:

In a turnabout after eight years of Clintonism, members of his stormtroopers object to being discovered out of uniform:

Nationalizing Socialists Arrested at Ohio Stadium

[linn37]

so whats the deal did they threaten to remove graduates who turned their backs? I have to say that its disturbing to me if they did. I don't see how simply turning your back would be a big disruption to the President and surely he would be man enough to just move on.

[MissAmericanPie]

I kind of agree with them, as long as they were not loud and unruly they had the right to turn their backs in their sorry little protest I suppose. But if they want to degenerate into a shouting temper tantrum they have no right to keep other's from listening to what is being said. Take it outside, organize a march, go to D.C..

[hellinahandcart]

This was an organized effort, that was to include not just graduates but GUESTS in the audience. Go here. I would definitely call this a disruption worthy of ejection. You can't "peacefully turn your back on the President" unless you are STANDING UP BLOCKING THE VIEW OF THE PERSON BEHIND YOU. And those people's rights to view the commencement outweigh the rights of those who want to force people to look at them. Sorry, that's just the way it is.

Peace signs on mortar boards are okay, if lame. And, if they had tried to organize something along the lines of "protest the war by pulling your knees up to your chin and swiveling around in your seat till your back is to the President but yet you're not in anyone else's way", I suppose I wouldn't have a thing to complain about.

Annie, did you here anything about protesters being ejected from the ceremony, and did your friend mention whether they were students or audience members?

[alisasny]

I just went over there to read the thread..funniest thing of all.... about KENT STATE..being common in Ohio since Kent State....ahh duh..wrong state....

Oh what a group...LOL but a great laugh for as long as I could stomach to read the words of the DU.....

[soycd]

If these leftist protesters had stood up when our 2nd rights were being deleted by clinton then I could maybe GAF. As it stands now they can move to cuba if they don't like it here.

[lara]

Newsmax.com President Clinton has himself sicced the Secret Service on critics he thought went too far. Pat Mendoza, who was at the "Taste of Chicago" food fair in July 1996, was actually arrested along with her husband Glenn for merely speaking her mind . . . "You suck and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza erupted, referring to the still unsolved Khobar Towers bombing a month earlier, which had taken the lives of 19 Marines stationed in Saudi Arabia . . . Seconds before the Secret Service swooped down, a videotape shot by Chicago's WMAQ-TV shows Clinton pointing out the Mendozas to White House enforcer Bruce Lindsey. That video has never been broadcast nationally. After their arrest, the Mendozas spent 14 hours in a Cook County lock-up. Though the Secret Service eventually dropped all charges, the couple, who ran a small electronics business, was soon audited by the Clinton IRS.

I remember when this happened. The Mendozas weren't the only ones upset. This was an unplanned stop by clinton and all Taste of Chicago goers had to wait until clinton left before they could leave. Which made a lot of people late getting back to work. But when did bill or hillary ever care about inconveniencing the little people?

[glory]

They showed TWO of the back turners on our local station. Surprise, surprise, one was a Muslim female(headress under her cap). Wonder what she is protesting? Hmmm? Our local news also made note of the fellow students disapproval of the backturners whom they said just looked ridiculous and accomplished nothing.

[TLBSHOW]

this thread is on the front page of the demorats drudge wanna be site right now. Smile! Screw you rats!

lol

[leadpenny]

It's hard for me to figure out from this thread, and accompanying links, what actually happened at OSU yesterday. My nephew was among the graduates and his family was planning to attend. I'll call my brother this weekend to get the lowdown.

I'll also say this: It was wrong in '93 when x42's people kept about 200 of us away who turned our backs on him at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and it would be wrong if security removed people just for turning their backs on W.

[jaime1959]

So, some students wanted to turn their back on Bush while he spoke and they were removed and threatened with jail if they protested? Sounds pretty fascistic to me. Change the names and imagine it was Clinton and then tell me how you'd feel about it. In fact, stuff like this did happen under Clinton and I recall reading some rightly outraged posts about it. Bush is President, not King. People have a right to peacefully show their disdain for him.

[earonthief]

We all have the right to disagree,AWD included. Preferably peacefully and intelligently. The part that always gets me though is AWD and the attitude of those like him. I am reminded of small children. The left really, really needs to grow up.

[Austin Willard Wright]

That protest is rather mild. Heck, I though you were talking about that long and distinguished American tradition of heckling which can make boring events quite exciting and test the metal of the speaker. Spiro Agnew was great at putting hecklers in their place by directling confronting them and humiliating them. David Horowiz is another example of a speaker that can eat hecklers for lunch. Politicians today are a bunch of crybabies and pre-programed wimps who can't handle spontaneity from a crowd.