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A woman with her hands painted blood-red confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the US Congress Wednesday, shouting "war criminal" before being hauled away by Capitol security.
Desiree Farooz accosted Rice ahead of her appearance at a House of Representatives hearing on US foreign policy, waving her hands just centimeters (inches) from the diplomat's face inside the committee meeting room as television cameras captured the confrontation.
"The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands," Farooz shouted, before police wrestled her away.
Several other people, members of the anti-war activist group Code Pink, were subsequently ejected from the room.
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Why did her security detail let that woman get that close is what I'm wondering? She could have been assassinated with a security breach like that.
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My militant leftist college professor friend and I had a discussion on this very topic last week, and we were both in total agreement- what in the world happened to civility? She was talking about impossible it is for a person to speak on a college campus without constantly being heckled/harrassed. But this problem extends far beyond campuses.
When a politician or controversial person speaks at an event, should protesters be allowed to demonstrate outside the event? Absolutely, go for it. But when the speaker is actually speaking inside the event.....it's like, shut the hell up and let them talk. I don't care who it is- Bush, Cheney, Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, Neil Patrick Harris, Frank Stallone, whomever....protest outside all you want. Hand out flyers all you want. Hold counter-protests all you want. But inside the event, would it hurt to show a little respect, if not for the speaker, at least for those who want to hear the speech?
Let alone the security breach GL alluded to. Your right to protest and free speech most certainly does not include such confrontations, and for obvious reasons.
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Know Ye All Liberals-These Be The Ancient Secrets of Our Tribe?s Debating Techniques.
May Any Who Reveal These Secrets to the Conservatives Be Struck Dumb
1. Avoid factual arguments, they're usually against you anyway.
2. If for some obscure reason the facts actually fall your way (an extremely rare occurrence) then repeat them endlessly regardless of the reply of your conservative opponent. Remember time is limited, use this against him.
3. Get as personal and vicious as you can, maybe it will distract your opponent from his train of thought.
4. If you are unable to insult him with the usual insults such as ?racist,? ?homophobe,? or ?bigot,? then insult someone else on his side (someone related to the subject under discussion is preferable but not required).
5. When you?re losing, and you usually will be, abruptly change the subject. Again the object of this is to distract and deflect attention from your opponent?s argument.
6. Talk loudly and rapidly, don?t allow your opponent to get a word in. Remember the more time you consume, the less time your opponent will have.
7. Use hyperbole as an example of your opponent?s argument and suggest that that is what they are suggesting.
8. Purposely misunderstand what is being said by your opponent and distort it into something you can use.
9. Make up ?facts? most people don?t check them and anyway, you?ll be long gone by the time the truth is known, and so will the audience.
10. Expect perfection. Focus on the slightest flaw in your opponent?s argument, any kind of mistake, grammatical, spelling, contextual, anything no matter how slight is sufficient to deflect attention away from how vacuous your arguments are.
11. Act insulted. Take umbrage at the slightest contradiction and act as if it is a personal insult. This will make your personal attack seem warranted and just.
12. Mug the camera or audience while your opponent is speaking, make faces, sneering is good, head-shaking better, and looking toward the ceiling is best [notice the avoidance of the word Heaven, Liberals avoid words of a religious nature WM]. Let the audience know you disagree with your opponent (even if you?ve no idea what he?s saying)
13. Use condescending laughter as much as you can. It serves two purposes, first, it dismisses your opponent as being unworthy of your respect and second, it shows your contempt for his arguments. This is a very powerful tool and can really annoy your opponent and disrupt his train of thought.
14. You?re an arrogant Liberal; demonstrate your obvious intellectual superiority by acting in a condescending manner.
15. Forget how many of the wealthiest in this nation are Liberals, always beat the drum of ?Rich Republicans? and ?working class Democrats.?
16. Finally, always remember style trumps substance. Know it, Live it.
