Posted on 11/09/2001 3:15:19 PM PST by Pokey78
CHELSEA CLINTON was among a group of American students which disrupted an anti-war meeting in Oxford, it was revealed last night. Frustrated at anti-American feeling, the daughter of the former President arrived at the 500-strong meeting in Oxford Town Hall with a dozen friends who heckled speakers. Miss Clinton, a postgraduate student in international relations at University College, Oxford, her fathers alma mater, has confessed that she is feeling isolated and threatened by the mood she has detected at the university. She found it difficult encountering anti-American feeling from peace demonstrators. As soon as last Thursdays meeting, organised by the Oxford Stop the War Coalition, began, members of her mostly American group shouted patriotic slogans from the back. Speakers were prevented from continuing after other young Americans approached them and unfurled a Stars and Stripes flag. Chris Harman, editor of the Socialist Worker, said: When the group turned up I thought, oh no, were going to have some rugby-type fracas, but luckily it was nothing like that. The flag-bearers were eventually sent back to their seats by a 76-year-old American woman called Barbara, an Oxford resident. Katy Beinart, a student CND member who spoke at the meeting, said that Miss Clinton had arrived making a lot of noise. When John Haylett, editor of the Morning Star, began to argue that the media had failed to consider the effects of the bombing on Afghan civilians, Miss Clinton and her friends called out that he should remember the victims of the terrorist attacks on New York. Mr Haylett responded that such meetings were the only way to put an alternative viewpoint to that portrayed in the media. Miss Clinton left with her Secret Service bodyguards shortly afterwards, stopping to buy a copy of the Morning Star from a vendor, and making yet more noise, according to Ms Beinart. It was a shame that Chelsea Clinton felt the need to interrupt a peaceful discussion with what I felt were inappropriate comments, she said. Speakers at the meeting, including the MP Jeremy Corbyn, said yesterday that Miss Clinton took their comments too personally.
San Francisco, Saturday, November 10 - "Night of Heroes" to benefit the September 11th Fund and
the Say Hey Foundation.
Master of Ceremonies Lon Simmons, with special guests Willie Mays, Bill Clinton, Mayor Willie Brown,
Rob Schneider and Sharon Stone. Tickets $600. 1(650)327-6297.
Say Hey! Say Ho! Bill Clinton is no heroooo!
And, the September 11th Fund gots some 'splaining to do giving $171,000 to aid terrorist suspects being held,
instead of to the victims' families.
I'm with you on this -- 'Trust but verify'. Maybe I'm naive for my age, but I tend to take people at their word, unless given evidence to the contrary.
Don't look like she's hittin' the books very hard. Maybe she'll be changing her thesis to "BAD INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
Could it be I've been too hard on Chelsea?
At least she's demonstrating FOR America on foreign soil. Unlike, alledged bio-daddy Bubba.
In this instance, she gets a thumbs up and an atta-girl.
BINGO!!! And yet a lot of folks here on the FR are suckers for the staged act. Probably the same folks who got teary eyed a couple of years ago when they were fooled into thinking that Craig Livingstone had "found God."
I don't agree. Granted, you're not absolutely set in concrete at that point, but you've been formed to a large extent by the age of 21. If you don't have a solid moral foundation by that point, you're unlikely to acquire it later. I know there's some reformed liberals on this site, but there's plenty of us here who have always been conservative thinkers.
Could you see a Thanksgiving dinner with chelsea looking at her father and saying "...Yes I am! And Mike Tyson is the dad!"
KEEP ON FREEPIN' ON!!!
She had gas, perhaps? ;~)
I dislike all three now( who the h*ll thought about the tax rebate during that dreadful day) and I would personally prefer you refer to me as "Oh Clear-Thinking One."
Much obliged.
regards
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