http://www.newsday.com/news/local/w...,7081551,print.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Protesters interrupt Clinton visit BY MARC HUMBERT AP Political Writer March 10, 2006, 3:17 PM EST ALBANY -- An appearance by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at a jobs conference in Albany was briefly disrupted Friday by one of her two anti-war opponents for the Democratic Senate nomination. As more than 200 Albany-area business executives listened to a panel discussion at the State University at Albany, Steve Greenfield rose from the audience and shouted "When are our troops coming home from Iraq?" The former first lady sitting with the panel said, "We'll discuss it later. We're going to move on." Greenfield was asked by a security guard to leave the ballroom where the jobs conference was being held, and did so without incident. Outside the room, Greenfield complained about the "cozy relationship between the government and the private war-profiteering sector." "This is a travesty that must be stopped," Greenfield said. "Hillary Clinton is not getting a free pass back to the Senate and she's not getting a free pass to the White House." Clinton is a potential 2008 Democratic candidate for president. Outside the ballroom, about two dozen university students protested against Clinton's visit. Some were against her past support for the Iraq war while others, a few members of the College Republicans, complained that she wasn't welcome at the school. "She is a carpetbagger," said Caitlin Scholl, a junior from Queensbury and chairwoman of the local College Republicans. At times, the students chanted loudly. "Hey Hillary, we know you, your husband was a liar too," was one chant. The protesting students asked to be let in to the panel discussion and eventually about 10 of them were. Several of them covered their mouths with duct tape that had "Free Speech" written on the tape. Besides Greenfield, a second anti-war activist, Jonathan Tasini, is seeking the Democratic nomination.
i think americans in general are extremely conservative in their protests. in france riots and strikes to shut down the highways are considered normal forms of protest. whereas in the US it seems anything outside of a letter writing campaign is out of the norm.
I don't call the act of NOT rioting to be conservative. I see it as choosing to be respectful of law and order.
