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 father’s 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 Thursday’s 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, we’re 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.
Now that liberalism is dead, are they using their child to try to squeeze their way into the new mainstream?
The wheel has turned, and it's time for them to go!
Right! Look how David Horowitz turned out after he was raised in a Communist household.
Proof megalomania is hereditary.
Looks like she could use some tips from some freepers.
Better than strangling the ferret, which was how he ended his encounters with Monica.
Cut Chelsea some slack. We all decry the biased media focusing on peace protesters more than patriotic rallies. If PR matters, if national solidarity matters, then Chelsea heckling some British Socialist idiots is a good thing, IMO.
I say good for her! Don't blame the children for their parents' crimes.
DTH
Don't you just love nouveau-patriots like this? I've met a lot of them in the last 2 months. I just want to shake them and ask them what the heck they were thinking before that.
And not only does she have them, but they seem to conveniently disappear at will when she needs them to (to wit, on September 11, so she could wander the streets in a daze!) And how long does the grown daughter of an ex-president get to keep Secret Service protection? It seems a bit odd to me that Al Gore, a former vice-president, has no Secret Service protection, while Chelsea apparently still does!
I have my doubts about the veracity of this latest Oxford story, but if it is true, good for Chelsea.
Well said and worth repeating.
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