Hillary Clinton came here today

[friedo]

I went and waited for her to show up, so I could boo her. She showed up. I booed. I held up my Rick Lazio sign. The Secret Service didn't find that amusing, so they casually asked me to leave, which i did, taking great care to make a lot of rustling and walking noises on ym way out. Then I ate a cheeseburger.

Ahhh, I feel patriotic.

[threemae]

Where was Hillary?

Where were you booing?

What did Hillary say?

You didn't throw the burger, did you?

Did it have pickles?

How about mustard?

[friedo]

Where was Hillary?


At RIT, where I go to school, in the gym.


Where were you booing?


On the bleechers, on the left side of the gym


What did Hillary say?


She made a really "funny" joke about how this election is like driving a car. If you wanna go forward, put it in "D." If you wanna go backwards, put it in "R.".

Har har har. Then she started talking about health care and education and how she plans to destroy it all.


You didn't throw the burger, did you?

Did it have pickles?

How about mustard?

I didn't throw the burger, as that was in a different building. I don't like mustard or pickles on burgers, but I did get a piece of tomato, cheese, bacon, and ketchup.

[Satan]

What an uncivilized and rude thing to do.

I have no love for this candidate, but to do what you did took no class and even less brains.
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[PicoDeGallo]

No class? For booing Hillary? That's a matter of opinion.

But God bless you for exercising your right to freedom of speech (or would it be called freedom of booing?)

Throwing the hamburger would have been tragic though. A real waste of good food.

[stuyguy]

Good going friedo!

To borrow the phrasing of your post, we NYers should tell her we don't find her candidacy amusing, and casually ask her to leave. I'll even supply the cheeseburger.

[friedo]

Thank you Pico. I was surprised at the ammount of animosity that she received, as this is a pretty liberal campus (there are Nader zombies EVERYWHERE.)

But, anyhoo, it's always been my opinion that unworthy candidates deserve heckling. How else are they going to know that people don't want them? D (Besides voting, of course.)

Alas, I fear she will win. Which will be a damn shame.

[friedo]

Originally posted by stuyguy

To borrow the phrasing of your post, we NYers should tell her we don't find her candidacy amusing, and casually ask her to leave. I'll even supply the cheeseburger.

I forgot to mention the other "joke" she made.

"We're expecting a record voting turnout next week, so in order to save space at the polling stations, if all the democrats could please come on November 7, and all the republicans on November 8th, it would be appreciated."

Haw haw haw.

[Jack Batty]

Gee whiz, you sure showed her. :rolleyes:

[Maeglin]

I suppose I am glad that my friends, who booed Lazio the other day in NYC, had a little more class.

[jwg]

Let me get this straight! You saw Hillary! in person! Heard her speak? and you were still able to eat?

[threemae]

I suppose I am glad that my friends, who booed Lazio the other day in NYC, had a little more class.

Considering that they both booed, I do not see how they could have showed any more class.

[Maeglin]

Considering that they both booed, I do not see how they could have showed any more class.

You are right. I wasn't making myself clear. They didn't actually interrupt his speech, nor did they harass his fans. I just used booed in a more general sense. They were just there passing out pamphlets and answering questions.

[neuroman]

friedo,

That was a very rude and tasteless thing to do. You are my hero.

Are there any pictures of you getting tossed out by the SS?

[friedo]

Originally posted by Maeglin
Considering that they both booed, I do not see how they could have showed any more class.

You are right. I wasn't making myself clear. They didn't actually interrupt his speech, nor did they harass his fans. I just used booed in a more general sense. They were just there passing out pamphlets and answering questions.

I didn't interrupt anybody's speech or harass fans. I booed when she came on, when most other people were clapping, and I left soon thereafter.

Sorry, neuroman, no pictures. :(

[VaHermit]

friedo... right or wrong, you took a stance. If you're ever down my way, the cheeseburger's on me.

[The_Peyote_Coyote]

Lighten up, Satan, political heckling is protected by the First Amendment. To quote the old cliche, if Hillary cannot stand a little heat she should get out of the kitchen.

What I find barbaric is that Friedo ate a hamburger without pickles.

Oh, the horror, the horror!

[Satan]

Originally posted by The Peyote Coyote

Lighten up, Satan, political heckling is protected by the First Amendment.
Ah yes... But when I excerside MY freedom of speech by opining that this behavior was boorish and accomplished nothing exact showed whan an asshoel friedo is, I should "Lighten up?"

I never said that what he did was illegal. What I said was that it was stupid. It accomplished nothing. It was, essentially, a person acting as if he was in The Pit when it could have been far more productive to act as if he was in great Debates.
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[The_Peyote_Coyote]

Well, Satan, I was merely exercising my First Amendment rights by telling you to lighten up.
Aauugh, this is my 666th post!!!! I now belong to you.

[VaHermit]

Satan , of course you have the unalienable right to voice your opinion when you said:

It was, essentially, a person acting as if he was in The Pit when it could have been far more productive to act as if he was in great Debates

And I have to agree with your comparison, but in the given circumstance, could friedo have actually have had a chance in hell of carrying on a legitimate debate with Hillary? Very doubtful.

IMHO, he had Two choices, either be one of the quiet sheep in the audience or (in pit fashion) express himself in the only way available.

Whether I personally agree with him or not is beside the point. Instead of sitting home getting stoned, he got off his ass and expressed his point of view, and thats not all bad.

[friedo]

Originally posted by VaHermit

Whether I personally agree with him or not is beside the point. Instead of sitting home getting stoned, he got off his ass and expressed his point of view, and thats not all bad.


Well, I did get a little drunk afterwords, but whatever. :)

[Satan]

Originally posted by VaHermit

And I have to agree with your comparison, but in the given circumstance, could friedo have actually have had a chance in hell of carrying on a legitimate debate with Hillary? Very doubtful.
So there was no chance that a Q&A after her speech might have come up? None at all? Well, even if one did, by getting thrown out of the speech, friedo forfeited his chance to participate in this.

In addition, one does not need to interract to learn something, even if that learning is justifying your opinions. It is quite possible that this candidate would come up with something in this speech which would either validate personally what friedo thought, or maybe even refute it!

But friedo did not want this chance to be edified. It was much better to show no class, poor form and get thrown out, a martyr for a bullshit cause.

Sorry, but we are on a board to fight ignorance. One does this by listening more often than not. And friedo had aa chance to do exactly this. And he wasted it, in my opinion. May as well sit at home stoned if that's what you are gonna do with your statements...
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[friedo]

Oh, please, Satan. I've listened to several hours of both candidates debating and speaking informally. I've read their positions on various issues. Don't assume just because I was expressing my opinion it was a baseless one. And no, Mrs. Clinton does not do Q&A sessions. I hardly consider myself a "martyr," either. And I was not thrown out, I was told to put my sign away or leave, and I chose the latter.

You continue to make it sound like I was being extremely disruptive or trying to start a riot, which simply was not the case. My presence there lasted all of 10 minutes. It consisted of yelling "boo" and holding up a sign when she walked on the stage. Big friggin deal, if you ask me. I had fun. I made my point. No one got hurt. I don't give a shit if you thought it lacked class, but you do not know how much I have researched and listened to each candidate, and you do not know my stances on the issues they represent, so don't pretend to have an idea as to what my motivation was.

[rs0522]

Could someone explain where the Secret Service gets off asking someone to leave a political event for expressing a political opinion without disrupting a politician's speech?

No threats, nothing nasty. Just 'you aren't allowed here because you don't support this politician'.

I would have told the SS to pound sand. Let them arrest me.

[threemae]

Could someone explain where the Secret Service gets off asking someone to leave a political event for expressing a political opinion without disrupting a politician's speech?

No threats, nothing nasty. Just 'you aren't allowed here because you don't support this politician'.

I would have told the SS to pound sand. Let them arrest me.

I do not think that Friedo was actually arrested, just asked to leave. Perhaps he could clarify.