Demonstrations Expected as Rice Speaks at Boston College

Protest, protest, protest...shut the lying, mushroom-cloud- painting, bitch down.

Demonstrations Expected as Rice Speaks at Boston College:

"BOSTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she understands why students and faculty at Boston College are preparing to protest as she receives an honorary degree, and she embraced their right to object even as she defended the war in Iraq.

'People have the right to protest, but I hope when they protest they realize also that people now have a right to protest in Baghdad and Kabul, and that's a very big breakthrough for the international community,' Rice said Monday before the BC commencement.

'I think it's just fine for people to protest as long as they do so in a way that doesn't try to have a monopoly on the conversation,' Rice told WBZ-AM in an interview. 'Others have right to say what they think as well.'

Ever since Boston College announced earlier this month that Rice would speak at the school's graduation and receive an honorary degree, reaction has ranged from outrage to enthusiasm.

'We are very concerned as Catholics that Boston College has invited Condoleezza Rice, who is an architect of this foreign policy and war. ... That is hardly something to honor,' said Brayton Shanley, a BC alumnus and co-founder of Agape, a lay Catholic organization that has been working with students to organize the protests."