Communist Protesters Throw Red Paint on Clinton’s Motorcade
EmailProtesters threw red paint on vehicles in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade in the Philippines today. The demonstrators also blocked the convoy and forced it to change course.
Clinton had just left a meeting with the country’s president, Benigno Aquino III, at the Malacanang Palace when, according to a local news channel, several dozen activists ran past police and tossed paint on the cars.
According to Aksyon News, the youthful, left-wing protesters kicked the vehicles as local police tried to arrest them.
The news report said Clinton’s security force got out of the cars to block news photographers from covering the incident, and the convoy eventually turned back into the palace.
A State Department official traveling with Clinton confirmed the incident but downplayed it.
The official called the event “not a big deal in an email to ABC News. The official said Clinton’s vehicle was not hit with paint.
This is not the first unscripted moment on this trip.
On Saturday a man who appeared to be a local performer ran past Clinton carrying a torch and wearing nothing but a loincloth during her photo op with the chief executive of Hong Kong.
Clinton laughed that incident off. This time it appears her security took the breach more seriously.
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Communist protestors. Wow. Apparently these people weren’t told that communism doesn’t work. Russia learned that. China is still in the process of learning that. Utopia is not gained from a few people in the Communist Party. In fact, the corruption is worse in these types of controlled states. Communism cannot work in the 21st century where information flows freely in spite of attempts by state control.
Posted by: Bob | November 16, 2011, 10:25 am 10:25 am
I didn’t even know the “occupy” protesters were in the Philippines.
Posted by: mike | November 16, 2011, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Left wing-nuts and commies…it must have felt like being at a WH meeting for old Hillary.
Posted by: Gunner_1959 | November 16, 2011, 10:40 am 10:40 am
The US has to deal with the Islamic problem, there in the Philippines, as well.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 16, 2011, 10:58 am 10:58 am
Keep your filthy capitalism to yourselves!
We do not want to be in debt, so that our children’s, children’s have to pay for it,
we our better than the U.S.. That’s the message sent.
Posted by: deadwrestler | November 16, 2011, 11:03 am 11:03 am
Filipino people are not stupid. They see what we’ve known all along: an ineffective, stuffed-shirt senator who’s more mouth than mojo, who says one thing and does another, all for her own benefit and at the detriment of the rest. The United States has lost all face with the rest of the world for those very reasons. We are now a wholly ineffective influence on the rest of the world, sponging off their resources and leaving them the empty caves while we party obliviously. Way to go, Washington, for making us the most hated country in the world.
Posted by: Scred | November 16, 2011, 11:10 am 11:10 am
“China is still in the process of learning that.” — Yup, they’re learning it all the way to the bank. ;-)
Posted by: WorkingClass | November 16, 2011, 11:13 am 11:13 am
It’s good to be good. Any mocking will be duplicated world wide. It’s good to be good.
Posted by: Cherunda | November 16, 2011, 11:24 am 11:24 am
This is why you need a 60 machine gun installed on the root of the vehicle.
Posted by: brian | November 16, 2011, 11:56 am 11:56 am
scred…who helped free the philipines from the japanese in ww2?how many u.s. lives were lost there? the bad old americans…who help the world thats who helped. we should never waiver nor care what other countries think of us…because they dont give a darn about us.
Posted by: catman | November 16, 2011, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
OK, how are these protester communist, though? Who are they affiliated with? What are they trying to accomplish? Terrible research and reporting.
Posted by: Jackson | November 17, 2011, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm