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Chelsea joins the hecklers at peace rally
The Times (U.K.) ^
| 11/10/2001
| GLEN OWEN
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.
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To: MindBender26
Bump.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:23:37 PM PST
by
veronica
To: NYCVirago
Never trust anyone related to Bill and Hillary Clinton. These people are pure evil!
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:25:11 PM PST
by
scamsam
To: veronica
I'm gonna puke. How much of this Chelsea swill are we going have shoved down our throats?!I really like you girl! This is a pre presidential press move for mommy..this is the same "little girl" that hated the US Military..
My guess she wanted to be part of the crowd, and the publicity for mom isn't a bad side effect
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:25:30 PM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: Pokey78
She has PR handlers...they are spinning her activities at Oxford...she, like both parents, will act according to the mood of the moment.
24
posted on
11/09/2001 3:25:30 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Pokey78
OK, proof that she still is covered by Secret Service-how many of 'em do you think got stuck with that job?
I was feeling a little lethargic today, but after reading all these Chelsea articles, my blood pressure has shot through the roof!
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:25:50 PM PST
by
uvular
To: Pokey78
She can't be Bill OR Hillary's daughter, they'd be leading the anti-American protests. Chelsea might be a bit of a self-centered privileged kid but she didn't really spend much time with her parents growing up so she might be salvageable. Maybe her nannies instilled some kind of values in her.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:26:12 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: Pokey78
While Chelsea's away, X42 does play.
Anyone care to guess where the green thing was?
To: Conservative independent
Just "preserving her political viability," to paraphrase her stepfather.
To: Pokey78
The flap over Chelsea's heroics on 911 necessitated some quick damage control on the part of her handlers. "Get thee to an anti-American rally, girl. Make sure a teacher or prof is there as a witness. Wave the flag and shout a little. That oughta do the trick."
Leni
To: Pokey78
Guess she showed up late and couldn't get to the rest of the crowd! Too many people in her way.
To: Pokey78
Free Republic, all the Chelsea news thats fit to print. And then some! Will they ever go away.
To: Pokey78
Bizarro. A Trotskyite Freeping the Stalinists. A rare and delightful sight.
Chelsea's father's recent public remarks are a national disgrace. How far, I wonder, is she from the tree.
To: MinuteGal
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:28:35 PM PST
by
veronica
To: veronica
I'm gonna puke. How much of this Chelsea swill are we going have shoved down our throats?! RIGHT! Why now is Hilduhbeast2 getting press? The b*tchlett just needs to go shoppin'.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:29:24 PM PST
by
steveo
To: Pokey78
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. Were these the same Secret Service agent who accompanied her on 9-11?
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:30:06 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: Pokey78
Wouldn't it be funny if she became the Patti Davis of her generation?
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:30:34 PM PST
by
Rocko
To: MindBender26
This is all well-planned disinformatziatta by Mom to distract from her lies about Chelsea on Sept 11.Ding, ding, ding - we have a winner!
chelsbilly ain't no patriot, she's an opportunist just like her lowlife parents.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:31:10 PM PST
by
mombonn
To: Diogenesis
Man, the Girl with Bill in that picture sure resembles Charlotte Dodds...
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:32:22 PM PST
by
Southack
To: Pokey78
Well, it's a start. I'll be impressed when she starts freeping her parents...
To: Pokey78
I'm gonna file this in the too-weird-to-be-true file--at least for now. Chelsea unfurls an American flag in support of a U.S. war effort on the same campus her daddy supposedly burned an American flag to protest an American war effort. This--a day after Chelsea decries the Blame-America-First crowd and her daddy publicly reveals himself to be the main speaker for the Blame-America-First bunch. I'll have to see the film at 11:00 before I accept this one.
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posted on
11/09/2001 3:32:26 PM PST
by
Samwise
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