Police clash with Rice protesters

Herald Sun ^ | 16 March 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

POLICE have clashed with protesters at the front gates of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music ahead of a speech there by US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice.

Anti-war activists were rallying against US involvement in Iraq as Dr Rice prepared to deliver a speech at the conservatorium. About 50 protesters gathered outside the building in Macquarie St and were met by police on foot, on horseback, and with dogs.

Police used the horses to push the protesters back, as a police helicopter hovered over the scene.

Police made no early arrests but had to go to the rescue of The Daily Telegraph columnist Piers Akerman, who was being jostled by protesters.

The Stop the War Coalition says Dr Rice is a "war criminal" and is not welcome in Australia.

Stop the War Coalition spokeswoman Anna Samson says the protest is one of many planned in the lead-up to the third anniversary of the "invasion and occupation" of Iraq on March 20.

Two Newcastle University students, Peter Gray, 25, and Naomi Hodgson, 23, were ejected during Dr Rice's speech.

Outside the conservatorium, Ms Hodgson said her friend stood up in the middle of the speech and yelled: "Condoleezza Rice, you're a war criminal".

She said he had showed the palms of his hands and said: "Iraqi blood is on your hands and you cannot wash it away".

Ms Hodgson said the pair had managed to yell the phrase several times before they were ejected by security guards.

[Aussie Dasher]

Bloody ratbags!!!

Release the hounds...

[Loud Mime]

What did their signs say? Down with Pilaf?

[A CA Guy]

Well, and here Ginsberg complained about one idiot on another thread.
What would she think if she had the reception more public figures like Rice gets?

Anarchist, communists and idiots uniting in stupidity against Democracy with Rice IMO, and they will fail!

[NZerFromHK]

How amny of them are Bob Brown Greens or Latham Labor? I don't think Sydney has as many hard-lefties as Melbourne or Tasmania?

[Publius]

POLICE have clashed with protesters at the front gates of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music...

It's that old Brahms-versus-Wagner thing. Condi is a skilled Brahms pianist, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some violence from the Wagner partisans.

[Aussie Dasher]

Most of them are probably Greens. Nobody admits to being Labor anymore, much less "Latham Labor".

[SevenofNine]

GOOD I hope Aussie cops go THE SHEILD smackdown on demonstraters LOL!

[Aussie Dasher]

LOL! Yes, those Wagner fanatics can be scary...

[LeoWindhorse]

These pathetic morons, what do they want ?
A world ruled by fundamentalist Islam?
The current coalition of countries is the only thing stopping that eventuality from occurring to human future history.
Such pansies should be ignored ,and if the won't shut up
a little tar and feathers would do nicely.

[Echo Talon]

Don't worry we have our share of idiots here in the states.

[Stoat]

[Aussie Dasher]

I'd noticed that. BTW, how are the Kennedys?

[RandallFlagg]

"SOY SAUCE KILLS!!!"
or something to that effect.

[Echo Talon]

lol

[Echo Talon]

[NZerFromHK]

No wonder. The Greens are the only really repulsive elements in Australia (Democrats have gone down the ditch now). They better be careful with their slogans: mind you, Rice is black.

[Stoat]

WOO HOOO! <<< adding to "archive of Condi pics shamelessly stolen from the internet"

:-)

[SevenofNine]

I could imagine Condi in Hallie Berry role in Die another day last James Bond movie LOL!

Somebody need photoshop John Howard PRONTO

[Fair Go]

There were only fifty of them - probably all pot smoking lefties.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Anyone have photos of the jobless freaks in handcuffs?

:-)