Posted on 12/23/2002 12:46:56 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
Clinton campaign insider Patrick Halley revealed to NewsMax that "goon squads" were recruited to suppress protests at events for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Now one Clinton "goon squad" victim has come forward to tell his story.
The incident took place at New York City's Israeli Day parade at the height of Mrs. Clinton's 2000 campaign for the Senate, where, by all accounts, the then-first lady was roundly booed by the crowd as she stoically marched from block to block.
A member of the Web site FreeRepublic.com, dressed for the occasion as the devil, joined the crowd to add his voice to the protest. He recounted the episode:
"To suppress opposing views in the crowd, the Clinton campaign had people on both sides of the street walking the route with Hillary-but behind the barriers. They were carrying professionally printed pro-Clinton signs."
"Before she passed," he recalled, "they shoved me back and got in front of me, holding their signs in front of mine. However, my signs had a 3-foot handle and I raised them up."
At that point, recounts the FreeRepublic protester, "I was poked in the eye by a finger inserted to the eyehole in my mask."
In his recently released book, On the Road with Hillary, Mr. Halley details his eight-year stint as Mrs. Clinton's advance man, where one of the most important jobs was stifling protests like those staged by FreeRepublic, using physical intimidation when he deemed it necessary.
"Less genteel souls," Halley explaned, sometimes referred to his protest busters as "goon squads"-although he preferred the term "etiquette squads."
"I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested," he boasts in the book.
Every now and then, Halley siad, even he would have to throw a punch or two.
During a trip to Moscow while Mrs. Clinton was first lady, the advance man recalled:
"A photographer blocked my way and, trying to get a picture of Hillary in her limo, pushed me. I hit him square in the face so hard I thought I'd broken my hand. His nose exploded in an eruption of blood and I was able to shove him out of the way and jump into the lead car."
When it came to his protest busters, Halley says he "never advocated physical confrontation and always insisted that the etiquette squad stay within the boundaries of the law."
But in the next breath he confessed, "Sadly, but inevitably, things sometimes got a little frisky, but my recruits knew how to handle themselves....I had heard rumors that they had been very adamant about defending themselves when set upon by protesters."
The assault on Don and Teri Adams occurred just minutes after arriving in front of city hall where they encountered 150 Teamsters.
The Bitch is stopping herself. Even New Yorkers are waking up to just how truly evil she is, and most of the rest of us figured it out years ago. If she were to become a viable candidate, you would see a conservative ground-roots mobilization to stop her that will make Florida 2000 look like a cocktail party.
She'll be lucky to get reelected Senator in 2006; she will NEVER be president.
No, Hillary's principle is "Give me a WOMAN who can knock a man down. Oh, wait, that's me and my calfs!"
And the ones he had killed were the same ones who elected her to be their representative in the U.S. Senate.
Go figure.
But there are a number of "right" leaning media sources that would play a tape of this sort day and night if it clearly demonstrated an assault. In addition, the tape would become evidence in any trial. It would allow for the victims of such an attack to identify their attackers. Long range still photos would be useful in this regard also.
I like the "Linda Tripp" idea that one must give the enemy a taste of their own medicine. She saved tapes too. A certain young woman saved a stained dress "as insurance". Bet that dress saved her life. If FReepers on the front lines are going to risk their bodies, they had better have a way to record exactly what happens and who is doing it at the time. It is legal, it has power, and it is effective.
Give ME a few good women, spread throughout a crowd, waiting on the violence to begin with STUN GUNS, 'Dolph Baby!
When a goon's testicles are on fire and the woman decides when she lets go of the on-off button, the anti-Hitlery crowd turns the tables & Hitlery's goons learn a valuable lesson about taking Satan's money!
I think it was Dr.Raoul,but it could have been Race Bannon. It was definitely somebody with the DC chapter.
No one should forget Bobby boy and the California primary.
Oh, c'mon! You know she thought the dog was going to hurt him. She was valiantly risking her life to protect the poor man!
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