Cheney is heckled at his alma mater

[kpete]

Source: The Arizona Republic


Cheney is heckled at his alma mater

by Mead Gruver - Sept. 11, 2009 12:00 AM
Associated Press

LARAMIE, Wyo. - Praise and protest greeted former Vice President Dick Cheney as he visited his alma mater Thursday for the dedication of a new international center bearing his name.

About 100 protesters heckled Cheney throughout the dedication ceremony for the University of Wyoming's Cheney International Center. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, donated $3.2 million for the new center for foreign students and for scholarships for Wyoming students to study abroad.

Protesters made up about a fifth of the crowd of about 500 and hoisted critical signs: "Shame on UW" and "We don't want your blood money."

"They violated international law. They had no respect for other countries," Jennie Boshell, a senior at the university, said of the Bush administration. "To put Cheney's name on an international center is ridiculous, and it makes the university look stupid."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/09/11/20090911CheneyCenter0911.html

[Mr Generic Other]

1. i agree with the student protesters.

using a state university campus to launder his reputation (through the donation of ill-gotten wealth)should not be acceptable to the university administration or the wider community.
cheney never supported public education, so it seems the bequeath of $3.2 million to his alma-mater is an attempt to make it appear as if he did.
if he values the education he received there he would not have spent his career undermining the operation of state sponsored schools (i hope it was not the university of wyoming that provided cheney with his ethical and moral framework).
i suppose his name will remain on the building since he donated so much for its construction but how will the school feel if cheney ends his life behind bars as a convicted war criminal?
i don't expect that to happen, but it could.

[mattvermont]

4. 3 million wont get you

a plaque on a building on the east coast. A building at Harvard takes 30+million.

[Mr Generic Other]

17. you are right that $3.2 million isn't much.

if i was on the board i would have advocated paying cheney that same that same amount to never mention he had had any connection to the place.

[lame54]

45. he probably found that much under his couch cushions

[saigon68]

62. Cheney= 5 deferment Draft Dodger

[alp227]

56. The Vice President of the No Child Left Behind signer gets a dedication at PUBLIC university?

HYPOCRISY. I cannot understand why Cheney's alma mater is dedicating a part of its campus to the vice president who wasted billions in Iraq and supported the commander in chief in legislation that screwed over our public schools.

And about the protest, dunno if it was planned way before Rep. Joe Wilson heckled Pres. Obama on Wednesday.

[Hulk]

2. Even 100 temporary residents in WY is a good start.

Ever drive through Wyoming? RED NECK SOIL. I'm 100 happier to meet a liberal/progressive from WY than most other states cause they only have a couple hundred humans living there, and if ONE is a lib, it greatly increases the percentages.

Good for the protesters. I would be so ashamed if it was my state/alma mater.

[Frank Booth]

13. Wyoming's an unusual place.

I'll give you that there are a lot of rednecks, but a significant minority of the population is made up of old hippies/kids of old hippies communing with nature that type of stuff. So while there are a lot far-rights kooks, you also come across some of us on the far left.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

28. To me, wyoming rednecks aren't as vile as southern ones.

Polls show that most of them are pretty much libertarian with a live and let live attitude. In fact, I believe a poll showed that wyoming, alaska, and idaho were among the most solidly pro-choice states in the union.

[Alcibiades]

39. You're right

Western rednecks are fundamentally different from southern ones.

[Alcibiades]

40. You're right

Western rednecks are fundamentally different from southern ones.

[cachukis]

54. Followed Chief Joseph's Trail this summer.

Wyoming has his supporters.

[bitchkitty]

53. No kidding! That's 20% of the crowd.

I would not have expected that. Good on Wyoming!

[TransitJohn]

57. Thanks for the stereotype

What a jerk you came off as with that post. Care to take it back?

[AlbertCat]

59. Big empty Western states

Kept afloat by populated East and West coast states

Big empty welfare states.

[Barbara2423]

3. Are these Democrats trying to get tuff?

[benld74]

5. They donated $3.2 million for the new center, thats why its named after him

[daleo]

9. Probably war profiteer money

Just plowing some profits back into the war legitimization business. You can't have a military industrial complex without a constant infusion of fresh war blood. And that means polishing the odd bloody turd, like Cheney.

[liberalla]

26. I wonder if they'll have a "Halliburton Hall?"

If the University is trying to recognize it's benefactor, naming it Halliburton International Center is closer to the truth.

[oldironside]

46. Or even a "Halliburton Hell"

That would be closer to the truth.

[valerief]

6. Good for the protesters. Wonder if they were allowed to carry guns. nt

[vinylsolution]

7. A missed opportunity....

... to make a citizens' arrest.

But I bet the place was full of Blackwater thugs, so it might have been risky.

You can't run from us forever, Dick....

[Mithreal]

8. That $3.2 million is blood money. Innocent American and Iraqui. nt

[pjt7]

10. The man deserves to be heckled 24/7

for the rest of his life.

[scentopine]

11. When Cheney's heart gives out, I will dance with joy

and many in this world will set aside differences and dance with joy (privately of course).

We are counting the the hours until his festering heart, blackened by the senseless slaughter of a million or more, beats its last hollow thud.

There is great evil in this world and Cheney is infected with it.

His passing will be a moment of world joy and solidarity as he accepts his final tenure, tortured in the bowels of hell by the very lives he destroyed.

Here on earth, we will embrace the natural justice of his passing.

But, be quick and ready with celebrations. Barely a nanosecond will elapse between his passing and the next evil that will inhabit his fungus filled shoes.

[Mr Generic Other]

16. the world's hog population will heave a sigh of relief too

since it is pig hearts that cheney has been harvesting to keep his decrepit old corpse animated.
i wish the students had thrown shoes at him.

[scentopine]

19. To be called a Cheney, is a great insult to a pig.

[Mr Generic Other]

20. worse than a trip to the slaughter house.

i don't think any pig gave up a heart voluntarily.

[tclambert]

31. He also carries a baby in a backpack at all times

so if he feels feels an attack coming on, he can suck the life force out of it to resuscitate himself.

[scentopine]

41. maybe he has a baby sized safe at home...?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-26-2007/you-don-t-know-dick---safe

[704wipes]

24. I really do want to piss on his grave

since he is a war criminal

[Cha]

12. Good for the people in

Wyoming who can think for themselves.

[burrowowl]

14. He didn't even

graduate!

[pitchforksandtorches]

15. May the fucker rest in pieces - n/t

[ShortnFiery]

18. A fifth of the crowd, aye? That's a EXCELLENT showing.

Our High School band played in a summer "Frontier Days" in Cheyenne and, IMO, it was rather folksy but fun. However, I doubt if Laramie is as cosmopolitan and/or as densely populated? :evilgrin:

[mbperrin]

21. Kudos to the protesters!

mORE!

[Vinnie From Indy]

22. Good for the protestors

I can hardly think of an American alive today more worthy of scorn than Dick Cheney

[oldironside]

48. Just take a trip to freerepublic.com

There are thousands of them there.

[Subdivisions]

23. A Youtube clip...you can hear some of the heckling including

someone who says "You ruined the Constitution".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5k8lKLXF0

[barbtries]

58. he said

"you ruined my constitution"

i couldn't get much further because i cannot stand to hear his voice.

[Vidar]

25. Applauding the protesters.

[Quasimodem]

27. Good on the hecklers.

Something tells me that this building is going to function as a magnet for rude graffiti.

[goforit]

29. May he be haunted for all the people he killed. WTC-Wellstone-Iraq-Afgan

And who knows how many more on the side.

In his mind these deaths were only a political and profiteering convenience.

[Fire1]

30. Fuck Cheney.

[tclambert]

32. I did not know the University of Wyoming offered a major in torture.

[jeff30997]

33. Bwahahah !

Get used to it dickhead it's only the beginning.May you live
long enough to pay for what you did.

[tex-wyo-dem]

34. Ah, my good ole alma mater does me proud!

spent seven years there in Laramie getting my bachelor's and master's degrees. Plenty of rednecks, true, but plenty of liberals and progressives in Laramie as well. Wyoming is conservative, but more in the libertarian bent than anything else (a lot of libertarians were just as pissed at the Cheney/Bushie administration as we are).

In any case, this isn't the first time people have protested Cheney in his home state:

Cheney's neighbors topple him in protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVTuTWe75yA

[cindyfaulkner]

35. Good

heckle the creep.

[RoccoR5955]

36. Good. Cheney is only trying to rewrite history,

so that he will be remembered for something good. About some people told Dick that it ain't happening on this planet!

[Swede Atlanta]

37. Bprn and raised in Wyoming.......

Had I been there I would have made it 101 protesters. I suspect some of those protesters are from Colorado.

To put his name on an International Studies center is as ridiculous as it would have been to name a wing in the university's law school since he doesn't believe in the rule of law. If they had had a torture center it would have been perfect.

[DCKit]

38. Jennie Boshell is a very intelligent young woman.

What else needs to be said?

[jeffbr]

42. No shoes for dickhead?

[ScottLand]

43. He's a good reason to deny attending that school.

[zbdent]

44. "international center"?

is that what they're calling sewage treatment plants now?

[AllyCat]

47. Watch a forced apology coming from the protesters soon.

[DailyGrind51]

49. This anti-Vietnam war protester is so proud of those students!

[orpupilofnature57]

50. That like having a scholarship in Hitlers name ,Misanthropes shouldn't be

Immortalized.

[the blues]

51. Eloquently stated, Ms. Boshell

[closeupready]

52. What a disgrace.

n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

55. Happy to make this an even 100 recs

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

60. I suspect he will be heckled even after he's dead and gone.

He has proven to have all the characteristics of a "bad" man.

[Raine]

61. Cheers to the hecklers!!!

:toast: Since heckling seems to be the latest fad I'm glad that the shooter is getting his share! :thumbsup: :bounce:

edit: typo