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.

[Left2Right]

"About 50 protesters gathered outside the building in Macquarie St and were met by police on foot, on horseback, and with dogs."

That's the best they can do - 50 protesters? 50 idiots in a nation of millions of seemingly intelligent people? One must ask, "Why is this even a story? Why do we care about 50 nut-jobs?"

Perhaps it's a sign of our compassion that this is a story: we hope they get help soon, if it's not to late. Setting the dogs on them would just be animal cruelty.

[SevenofNine]

Dont say that LOL! even dogs had sense of enough to bite these protesters dogs would get rabies from THEM LOL!

[Fred Nerks]

Stop the War Coalition SydneyReserve your seat on the the bus to the protest $25 return. Departs Sydney Central 7am ... Keysar Trad: Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, Sydney; ... http://www.stopwarcoalition.org/

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Just the usual Islamic Friendship Association cra*p mixed with the loony left and stirred...and this is what you get:

[SevenofNine]

OMG Fred with that gossipy headline you gave me headache LOL! that so funny too LOL!

[NZerFromHK]

Interesting, but one headline attracts my attention:

"SCOTT RITTER: IRAQ INTEL CONSPIRACY SPANS ERA OF BUSH, CLINTON, BUSH"

US MSMs take note: there do exist anti-Clinton leftists, and stop laying that the US was liked during the Bubba years. The foreign Left hates Clinton as much they hate Bush.

[Heatseeker]

LOL, me too!

[Fair Go]

Keysar Trad will attract his usual large gathering. They'll probably all arrive in the same taxi.

[Fred Nerks]

Or how many people can you get into a Goggomobile? ROFLMBO!!

[Fred Nerks]

Hey, Kayser! Your taxi just pulled up outside...

http://tribes.tribe.net/smallcars/photos/8fd67c6b-6602-4c5f-b41f-3be40de81ae1

[Fair Go]

Perhaps he might need a couple of these as he has attracted an audience up to 80:

"Keysar Trad from the Muslim Friendship Society told an 80-strong Stop the War Coalition meeting here on February 27 that the “backlash” against the Muslim community is a direct result of “politicians and radio shock jocks trying to sell the 'clash of cultures’ image”.

Trad criticised all attempts to portray the Muslim community as misogynist and backward, but added that it didn’t just start recently. “[Minister for the aged] Bronwyn Bishop has been saying for some time that Muslim women are oppressed by having to wear the scarf.”

But Trad did say that the attacks on Muslims have reached new heights recently and that “Islamaphobic politicians are upset that there has been no violent reaction to the publication of the racist, anti-Muslim cartoons”. He described Treasurer Peter Costello’s suggestion that Muslims want to impose sharia law on Australians as “absurd”, as well as his threat to revoke people’s citizenship rights if they don’t agree with “Australian values”."

[NZerFromHK]

These people should better shut their mouths. Their nonsense is getting stale for me but attracts even more 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, Parises, Denmarks. Had this been World War II-era West or even Chiang Kai-shek-era Taiwan, they would be arrested for inciting armed rebellion and executed.

[Fair Go]

Every time a leftist opens their mouth, Osama Bin Laden gets an uplift and innocent lives are put at risk. Every time a leftist opens their mouth and engages in anti-American rhetoric, they are doing Bin Laden's bidding.

[FriendDownUnder]

"People like that... I'd say their brains were about this large... and I think I'd be being generous in that estimation..."

[Fred Nerks]

...they would be arrested for inciting armed rebellion and executed...

HA! And they would be if I were a dictator for only one week!

[Fair Go]

How about locking them up, feeding them cannabis for a week and then sending them to paint the Sydney Harbour Bridge!!

[Fred Nerks]

“...Islamaphobic politicians are upset that there has been no violent reaction to the publication of the racist, anti-Muslim cartoons”.

I imagine ASIO is watching his very step, the little scumbag. He used to be the Mufti of Australia and New Zealand's mouthpiece - the same 'mufti' who said (in arabic):

"There is no doubt that the U.S. is dealing with wholesale marketing of terrorism. The U.S. is the biggest agent for terrorism in the world, and Israel perpetrates terrorism, with funding and military and diplomatic support from the U.S..."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12226

Now, under this 'Muslim Australian Friendship Association' banner (and a whole lot of wishfull thinking if you ask me,) and hiding amongst the radical Left of the Australian Labor Party, the Greens (and the Unions that are having their wings clipped as we speak,) he accuses Australians of being xenophobic.

Australia is home to almost every nationality and race on earth and only muslim 'spiritual advisors' and muslim clerics end up arrested and charged with plotting to carry out terrorist acts against Australians.

[Fair Go]

Anyone will have a hard job convincing me that Australia is not the most tolerant nation on this earth.

[Fred Nerks]

I can prove that first hand...my family were post WW2 immigrants.

We must remember that islam is terrified of losing its followers to our lifestyle and customs. The next generation must be herded like sheep and radicalized - or islam will die. That's why islam sends clerics from Saudi and Egypt to keep them in line:

Have you read this:
PRESERVING THE ISLAMIC IDENTITY IN THE WEST

http://web.archive.org/web/20041024220339/http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/identity.htm.old

The headquarters of this org are in Lakemba right next to the mosque, IIRC.

[Fair Go]

From my experience kids from other countries quickly identify with Australia and the Australian lifestyle. I did see on a TV news program recently that Muslim families have complained that muslim kids are starting to skip following islam. The percentage of migrants who identify with an ethnic group is very small. There is an article on the subject which I will look for and send a link.

[Billthedrill]

ROTFLMAO! It is a Brahms vs. Wagner thing on so many levels. My money's on Johannes and on Condi. BTT.