Hillary's Hypocrisy on Dissent & Her Brutally Callous Treatment of A Wounded Veteran

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Hillary Clinton’s Hypocrisy on Dissent

February 18, 2016

Hillary Clinton says she’s a great defender of American veterans, but when Army vet (and ex-CIA analyst) Ray McGovern was assaulted for silently protesting one of her speeches, she did nothing – and newly released emails show she rebuffed an adviser’s proposal to apologize.

By Robert Parry

Five years ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal adviser Sidney Blumenthal urged her to apologize to former Army officer (and ex-CIA analyst) Ray McGovern after he was roughly arrested when he stood silently with his back turned in protest against a Clinton speech, ironically condemning foreign leaders who show intolerance of dissent.

According to an internal email recently released from former Secretary Clinton’s private email server, Blumenthal cited “an unfortunate incident” that occurred at her speech at George Washington University in Washington on Feb. 15, 2011. Blumenthal wrote that “something bad happened” and urged Clinton to have someone reach out and apologize to McGovern.

Instead, Clinton, who has declared that “supporting veterans is a sacred responsibility,” denied any responsibility for McGovern’s brutal arrest, which left the 71-year-old who was wearing a “Veterans for Peace” T-shirt, bloodied and bruised.

She also offered no explanation for why she failed to stop the police when the arrest was occurring right in front of her; instead she just continued on with her speech about the need for leaders to respect the rights of dissidents

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/02/18/hillary-clintons-hypocrisy-on-dissent/

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1. A perfect example of her hypocrisy

On Feb. 15, 2011, McGovern attended Clinton GWU speech, deciding on the spur of the moment – after feeling revulsion at the “enthusiastic applause” that welcomed the Secretary of State – “to dissociate myself from the obsequious adulation of a person responsible for so much death, suffering and destruction. …

“The fulsome praise for Clinton from GW’s president and the loud, sustained applause also brought to mind a phrase that – as a former Soviet analyst at CIA – I often read in Pravda. When reprinting the text of speeches by high Soviet officials, the Communist Party newspaper would regularly insert, in italicized parentheses: ‘Burniye applaudismenti; vce stoyat’ — Stormy applause; all rise.

“With the others at Clinton’s talk, I stood. I even clapped politely. But as the applause dragged on, I began to feel like a real phony. So, when the others finally sat down, I remained standing silently, motionless, wearing my ‘Veterans for Peace’ T-shirt, with my eyes fixed narrowly on the rear of the auditorium and my back to the Secretary...

“The experience gave me personal confirmation of the impression that I reluctantly had drawn from watching her behavior and its consequences over the past decade. The incident was a kind of metaphor of the much worse violence that Secretary Clinton has coolly countenanced against others.

“Again and again, Hillary Clinton – both as a U.S. senator and as Secretary of State – has demonstrated a nonchalant readiness to unleash the vast destructiveness of American military power.

McGovern, a republican, went out in public on the eve of the Iraq war stating the evidence to launch an attack was completely false and nobody in gov't should be falling for it. I was present at one of these talks and was very impressed with his sincerity and compassion for the millions who would suffer because Bush wanted to be a War President like his daddy.

This sickens me to the core of my soul. She is a complete phony. Do not question the queen!

[John Poet]

2. Dissidents against Hillary don't count.

Nice.

[SidDithers]

3. Parry. LOL...nt

Sid

[amborin]

4. truth. LOL...nt

[CharlotteVale]

5. There is something wrong with her. Deeply wrong with her.

[frylock]

6. She smirked as he was being removed from the auditorium.

Fucking smirked.