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laist.com — A group of UC Santa Barbara students in clown outfits & makeup interrupted a CIA recruitment meeting when they placed a fellow protester on top of a table and started demonstrating the controversial waterboarding technique. The disruption forced the CIA to hastily leave the meeting room, and they were chased to their cars by the clowns & protesters

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  • 2trkpony, on 11/20/2007, -17/+11LOL!
    • cawpin, on 11/20/2007, -9/+43That may be the most retarded thing I've ever seen.
      • Charlotte_Web, on 11/20/2007, -2/+6Agreed.

        And it didn't exactly look like the CIA guy made a hasty exit. He stepped out of the open door, and then stepped back in. They probably annoyed the hell out of him until he left in frustration.

        This is a victory for idiots, everywhere.
    • themastersb, on 11/20/2007, -0/+8Why clowns?
      • robdiggity, on 11/20/2007, -2/+10Because they're crying on the inside.
      • Charlotte_Web, on 11/20/2007, -2/+3They're just being true to themselves.
      • art42, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Read the full article quoted AND linked: http://laist.com/2007/11/19/cia_clown_waterboardin ...
        "“The reason they feel this is effective is because they completely make the situation a joke,” Walberg said. “It takes the seriousness and legitimacy away from the CIA. UCSB is one of the only UCs that the CIA recruits at and we want them to stop what they’re doing.”"
  • macwisdom, on 11/20/2007, -14/+10Thats Great!
    • ruddy, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1I can't wait for these guys to protest guns. We can only hope they'll do a live demonstration.
  • Roads01, on 11/20/2007, -5/+60What the hell happened there? One second that guy is laying on the table and the next, clowns are jumping around yelling... I think I missed something.
    • vango, on 11/20/2007, -2/+19the guy on the table was part of the clown group - then the clowns "rescued" him. The CIA would not be demonstrating torture to kids.
      • danarama, on 11/20/2007, -3/+2well by kids do you mean the students they would be recruiting and training? You join the military or CIA and you get torture training. That's a fact.
        • LeeSoong, on 11/20/2007, -0/+4"Would I have to kill people?"

          - "Would you like to?"
    • LeeSoong, on 11/20/2007, -3/+3Well, there is two dozen students that have made the top of The List.

      And I don't mean the Dean's List...
  • spaceman0, on 11/20/2007, -7/+72Fighting the absurd with ludicrous, the only way to go about it. Good job!
    • bingobongony, on 11/20/2007, -12/+9The only way to go about it if you are 12.
    • ruddy, on 11/21/2007, -3/+1just because you read an article about waterboarding doesn't mean thats all the CIA does. believe it or not most of the CIA doesn't show up to work and waterboard from 9-5. why would they try and interrupt the recruiters from doing their job?
  • sealjosh, on 11/20/2007, -9/+48I feel dumber for watching that
    • bodger, on 11/20/2007, -2/+16...and they said it wasn't possible. You showed them!
    • ruddy, on 11/21/2007, -2/+1"This is what the CIA does, so if you work for the CIA you'll probably be doing stuff like this".
      Go to UCSB if you want to get smartirir
  • reversekilled, on 11/20/2007, -6/+18Pun'k the CIA? wtf. it's like i'm in a bad rpg
  • stewieatb, on 11/20/2007, -25/+4I call BS. why would the CIA be demostrating torture to students?
    • stewieatb, on 11/20/2007, -8/+3crap, I'm sorry. i should have read the description and the rest of the article properly. sorry. dig me down if you wish
  • DjOverEZ, on 11/20/2007, -11/+18Hair and mushrooms? Sounds like my Friday night! Am I right people?!!
    • 1773nium, on 11/20/2007, -5/+30IM IN UR DIGGZ, COMMENTING IN WRONG ARTICLEZ!
    • plundstedt, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2You're in the wrong discussion.
    • xenuxenuts, on 11/20/2007, -0/+8Sorry, that's down the hall in room 13b.
    • Scheissen, on 11/20/2007, -1/+7Makes as much sense as this video.
    • SteveDeGroof, on 11/21/2007, -0/+3Digg really needs to fix that bug. Seems to happen when you're logged out, open multiple articles in tabs, then login to comment.
  • usrlocalbin, on 11/20/2007, -15/+8That is awesome!
    It's a shame recruiters from the CIA, Army, Military, etc go to schools to try to 'recruit' kids.
    s/recruit/enslave with a false hope/g (This is DIGG, gotta throw in some nerdyness sometimes)



  • MasterOrange, on 11/20/2007, -5/+1http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f4_1195486016
    Direct link to video.

    Site is down.
  • dgh1973, on 11/20/2007, -4/+34Beautiful. If only we could all dress up like clowns and chase Bush out of the white house...
    • saifatlast, on 11/20/2007, -2/+5I'd be down.
    • Babazoz, on 11/20/2007, -6/+6Hell, most of you do already, but you just haven't got the second part down yet....
    • JlmAWP, on 11/20/2007, -1/+10I don't think he'd run. He'd just giggle.
    • mllawso, on 11/22/2007, -0/+1Who says we can't?
  • jhbarr, on 11/20/2007, -9/+9I guess it is good the Bush administration exposed a CIA operative (Valerie Plame) because everyone working for the CIA must be waterboarding and torturing people!
    \sarcasm
    • jakeson2, on 11/20/2007, -6/+1The Bush administration DID NOT OUT leftist valerie plame. A man called Armitage did and he is not a friend of Bush even though he pretends to be conservative. GET RIGHT before you post.
    • scott2007, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1That's an interesting point. These clowns are against Cheney when he outs a CIA agent but they don't want the CIA to recruit.

      Hmmmmm.
  • Absinthe1, on 11/20/2007, -15/+8Such typical protester action. Make a scene, and hold a press conference. Noone actually listens, and it doesn't change anyone's mind. Some day these protesters will understand that to achieve change you need to work from within the system.
    • Sabarok, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3protests shows public support for those that are in the system and able to change, and gives them some courage to help them step up and change the system. And when there isn't someone inside the system to change it, it also gives clues to presidential candidates as to what issues have public support for them to use as a platform to get votes.
    • xsidekick409, on 11/20/2007, -0/+3Thats great an all, but how are students going to get into the system? They would have to wait until after college until they got a job.

      What can they do right now? Protest.

      And what if they're life's goals aren't to work in such a system?

      Not everyone can get "inside" but many can band together and make a difference.
      • jakeson2, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1What you are saying is that you are a can't person. The other thing is that you believe that just by being obnoxious and a stupid person you can make a difference. I think you may be right on that one since this Digg convinced me that these "clowns" are not fit to lead the nation in any capacity.
        • Absinthe1, on 11/20/2007, -2/+0While they're in college, that's right, they can't do much. Stay in school--get educated, then you'll have the capacity to play ball with the big dogs and change it from the inside. Protesting is great, and I commend them for doing it; I'm against waterboarding as much as the next guy--but in the long run, protesting itself won't exact change nearly as fast as an educated and ambitious individual will.
    • gandhii, on 11/20/2007, -3/+4it is a serious stretch to call that "protesting". That is play acting and horsing around. Fun to do, I am sure, but not the kind of thing that anyone will ever take seriously.
  • fleischner, on 11/20/2007, -15/+5It's so excellent when punks in costumes give the people charged with protecting this nation trouble. Yay for the Left! If you do a really good job, maybe somebody who might have been caught by the CIA will instead blow up a mall your mother is shopping in. That would be the best, huh?!
  • Endeavorer, on 11/20/2007, -14/+30I go to UCSB... didn't hear anything about this. This is just rude. Protest outside the door, but don't interrupt. What do they accomplish? they just piss everyone off in the room. I remember I once went to see Ban Ki Moon and he was giving a talk about the UN and every 10 minutes some undercover protester would stand up and start yelling and interrupting everything. Everyone just ***** hatted them and he didn't get any simpathy from the crowd. You don't gain any simpathy by being disruptive and rude. There are other more effective means of protest
    • virus222, on 11/20/2007, -5/+9LOL thats bs. you didn't hear about this? i go to ucsb too... it was in the daily nexus like the next day. go gauchos!
      • Endeavorer, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1Sorry don't read the piece of ***** Nexus
    • aznhomig, on 11/20/2007, -3/+13I was about to say. I'm a fellow UCSB student as well, it's kinda hard to NOT know about this story, unless you live under a rock.
    • shreela, on 11/20/2007, -3/+5Perhaps if the UN protesters had dressed in clown suits, everyone wouldn't have hatted them (hopefully they were striped Dr. Seuss hats that young people enjoy so much, plus they'd go so nicely with clown outfits).
    • gandhii, on 11/20/2007, -9/+4That couldn't possibly have been an actual CIA recruiting event.. Why would they exhibiting water boarding? None of it makes since. The whole thing is staged for the camera.
      • chiefbandit2200, on 11/20/2007, -0/+7RTFA the guy getting waterboarded was a protester...
      • ArmandoM, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2your comment doesn't make......since
    • N256, on 11/20/2007, -2/+5We are all UCSB students.
    • Yeknom, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1Go and see the documentary Indoctrinate U
    • pentalive, on 11/21/2007, -1/+1It looked to me that the would be water boarder is a fake CIA, "This is what the CIA does, so if you join the CIA you'll probably be doing this too", it's not something a real CIA would be telling prospective agents. And the fact that the guy doing the demonstration water boarding just let the clown-clothed people take over the demonstration rather than warning them away or telling them to stop. Clown-clothed and fake CIA (and Mr "Help Help" the water boarding victem) all all on the same side.
  • wombat02, on 11/20/2007, -13/+8They achieved their goal of getting the recruiter off their campus.
  • blademanx, on 11/20/2007, -12/+8Heh, I saw this in the school newspaper. Didn't expect to see it on Digg. Go SB protesters, go!
  • sliptech, on 11/20/2007, -7/+7Haha i saw this in the Nexus the other day.
  • floridiot2, on 11/20/2007, -8/+7They're demonstrating how to torture people to recruit for the CIA? What?
    • chiefbandit2200, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3Read the ***** description. The guy on the table was a protester, and the demonstration was a part of the protest.
  • detales, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2YouTube-style political protest. I digg.
  • rancidpony, on 11/20/2007, -8/+8These kids make an excellent argument for the frivolous use of tazers.

    Yeah. I understand the value of protesting. But to act like such utter douche bags & then post it on digg like you are proud of it rises to a level that makes me very sad for the current generation.
    • xenuxenuts, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2well, should they be using guns instead?
      • rancidpony, on 11/20/2007, -3/+3On these kids? Yes.
      • stevetrojanman, on 11/20/2007, -4/+1Tazering would have been hilarious here...
        Some of these morons deserve it...a right to protest does not give you the right to impede on other people's lives...that's called harassment.
    • vango, on 11/21/2007, -0/+4you assume too much, rancidpony. I posted it on Digg - UCSB '91. and i am proud of the students who made an effective and peaceful protest during a time when the CIA should be totally ashamed of what they have become. it's true they have done some good, but rendition and torture overshadow everything positive.

      meanwhile the current students at UCSB have followed a long tradition of protesting on-campus CIA recruitment. if they want students to join them, they can get an office off-campus, put an ad in the Nexus, and anyone who wants to go visit them can.

      you are the douche for assuming so much.
  • RaveX, on 11/20/2007, -5/+19You know, I'm pretty sure that most people who work for the CIA don't spend their time waterboarding people, and I'm willing to bet that none of the recruiters had ever waterboarded anyone in their life. Most intelligence (and almost all good intelligence) doesn't come from torture. If you consider that good intelligence can not only save lives by preventing terrorism, but it can prevent wars (provided the leadership is willing to actually listen to the intelligence), etc... maybe it's worth considering that it's not "enslavement", immoral, etc. to work for the CIA. What those kids did was stupid-- the CIA shouldn't be their target, let alone the recruiters. If they want to make a statement, they should target it towards the leadership in the White House-- the people who actually make the decisions. Instead, they've wasted everyone's time harassing people who have never done anything wrong, and who have probably done quite a bit of good.
    • grantmoore3d, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Not to mention, ***** over a bunch of students who might have had a great job opportunity... and a chance to do some good in the world. Most student protesters are idiots these days, who are too lazy to do any real form of protesting.
  • JordanM85, on 11/20/2007, -4/+11I have no idea what I just watched.
  • CourtesyFlush, on 11/20/2007, -7/+1Destroy us all!
    Destroy us all!
    Destroy us all!
    Destroy us all!
    Destroy us all!
    Destroy us all!
  • stevex0r, on 11/20/2007, -2/+6I am pretty sure you have just witnessed an operation carried out by the clandestine insurgent rebel clown army.

    http://www.clownarmy.org/
  • jumpo64, on 11/20/2007, -13/+6Some of us actually want to work for the government after college, for a number of reasons. I'm not going to college to "find myself as an artist" or to be a new age hippie. And certainly not to dress as a clown.

    Everyone wants to protest waterboarding like it's equal to chopping off limbs. Show me one person who's ever died of waterboarding. Waterboarding doesn't even cause physical pain, just brief psychological distress. Get over it. Everyone is against it until another airplane is flown into a building with someone's loved ones in/on it. Then they're asking how the government could let this happen and why they didn’t do more.
    • feckineejit, on 11/20/2007, -3/+5Oh ok how about we inject nerve numbing drugs into someones arm and blindfold them and make them believe we are chopping off their arm to get them to talk? It should be fine since it's only 'brief psychological distress' as you call it. how about I waterboard you, or your mother because she bought a book that is anti-establishment? you and your kind need to go away. Does the term cruel and unusual punishment mean anything anymore?
      • jumpo64, on 11/20/2007, -5/+1You make me laugh. "Nerve numbing drugs" and a god damn bucket of water with a blindfold are two completely different things. Curel and unusual punishment was something completely different when it was put into the bill of rights. Back then cruel and unusual punishment was pouring boiling tar on someone. Today cruel and unusual punishment is when a convicted murderer can't have a TV in his cell so he sues. Grow up, this isn't a utopia.
        • republicker, on 11/20/2007, -0/+5I can assume you have never sucked water into your lungs, or been punched in the face for that matter. Human rights is whats at stake here, yours and mine, not just some nameless/ faceless muslim. The fact that you are striving to work for the scumbag government just makes me sick to begin with.
        • jumpo64, on 11/20/2007, -4/+1Do you even understand how waterboarding works? Something tells me you dont. Good argument though.......
    • elhaf, on 11/20/2007, -0/+3For the record, I never asked how the government could "let this happen" the first time around. At the risk of insulting the families, I think it was a rather minor affair in the history of the US vs how it is being treated. We as a country have endured far worse, and as far as casualties go, that's a typical year on Texas roads.
    • jimmy17, on 11/20/2007, -2/+3So ur saying that torture as long as it causes no long term physical damage is acceptable. Well Im sure ull pass the interview..
      • jumpo64, on 11/20/2007, -5/+1No, I didnt say that. But the fact is that torture is going to happen whether Bush is in the Whitehouse, or Hillary, or Captain Kangaroo. I'd rather have water poured on my face than my limbs but off or my genitals mutilated.
    • buckrogers1965, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2Water boarding is torture. I think you have it confused with boogie boarding.

      When you water board people they are actually drowning. It isn't simulated. Many people die or sustain permanent physical injury from the stress and act of drowning. If you are water boarded just once you will will wake up screaming and feeling like you are drowning from your nightmares every night for the rest of your life.
  • itchie, on 11/20/2007, -4/+2I didn't know that the CIA actually does recruiting....
    • valkyries, on 11/20/2007, -0/+3yes they do for certain schools around the country, where i went they even had commercials on tv.
  • pahool, on 11/20/2007, -1/+4This made me giggle: "While we can understand waterboarding (actually, no we can't), the use of PowerPoint in a presentation really should also be considered a vile form of torture that no one - especially growing minds - should have to endure."
  • HerbSolo, on 11/20/2007, -7/+1So the CIA drives around, teaching school kids how to torture? - i don't quite know what to say...
    • chiefbandit2200, on 11/20/2007, -0/+4>.< Read the ***** description...
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 11/20/2007, -1/+2While I agree that Waterboarding is indeed torture. If I was in a position of authority I would have ordered a firing squad or air strike on these students for the simple fact that Clowns are the true terrorists of the universe.
  • leerayIG88, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2I guess the CIA has seen the movie, IT.
  • bustachops, on 11/20/2007, -2/+5well i can't think of a more annoying way to make a valid point - good job retards!
  • meed, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3I've always disliked clowns, fight evil with evil
  • jmechy, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2More info, including some more pictures, here:
    http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=15128
    • stillboy, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1Thank you, that was a much better article and actually made sense
  • buildmorerobots, on 11/20/2007, -0/+5clowns are creepy
    • lowerlogic, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1so is torture demonstrations in class
  • imbetterthanu, on 11/20/2007, -5/+9That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen....and I really don't know what the hell it was. WTF do clowns have to do with saving someone from torture? Are they saying they're a bunch of clowns? Or were the clowns doing the torturing in disguise?

    Damn that was a stupid video.
  • prioret, on 11/20/2007, -2/+4This is the kind of ***** that happens when governmental organizations are pushed to employ inane, ineffective, offensive, and illegal policies buy politicized members of the executive.

    The CIA, Justice Department, and Pentagons reputations have been damages for years to come, and have a lot of work to do to restore their integrity and legitimacy after the damage this administration has inflicted apon them.

    Who can work for CIA, Justice or the Pentigon with out being deeply disturb by their institutions loss of respect in the public's eyes.
    • stevetrojanman, on 11/20/2007, -1/+1No, no...this is the kind of ***** that happens when 20% of the population is inane, ineffective, and offensive...I understand being upset about things, but this was a waste of time...
      Again, protesting gives you the right to voice your opinion, not impede the lives of others...when you impede, it's harassment. Protest all you want, but if you get in my way, I'll run you over. I have done it before.
      • anachronaut, on 11/21/2007, -0/+1"No, no...this is the kind of ***** that happens when 20% of the population is inane, ineffective, and offensive"
        I thought Bush had 26% support...? Don't shortchange his supporters like that, they're neurotic enough as it is.
  • dagmar31, on 11/20/2007, -0/+6What it looks like to me, and reading the description, this video started when the protestors had already interrupted. I think the people in the background are the CIA recruiters, and the protesters were the ones who were doing the waterboarding demonstration on the front table, then had their clown friends free the victim.
  • chiefbandit2200, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3Lets dress up and dance around like clowns...
  • ktrough, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2Sounded way cooler than it was. 2 points for effort and idea though...
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1Who is the bigger clown, the clown or the clown who follows him?
  • Evildudetx, on 11/20/2007, -2/+2Nice to see our students are getting a good education.....NOT!
  • agimat, on 11/20/2007, -3/+3That video needed a tazer fest ending.
  • sdcarter, on 11/20/2007, -3/+5This is how we protest? Our hippie and Civil Rights activist parents would be so disappointed in us... if they weren't all sellouts.
  • Yeknom, on 11/20/2007, -3/+3That was actually really stupid, not gonna lie.
  • jellygraph, on 11/20/2007, -1/+3Monty python meets the government
  • jellygraph, on 11/20/2007, -2/+3help help, i'm being repressed!
  • macgecko, on 11/20/2007, -4/+4er, I fail to see the point of that video. A bunch a people being rude and acting like retards oh that was so cool dude, not!
  • legendxx, on 11/20/2007, -3/+5someone explain to me what the ***** just happened. All I saw were college students waterboarding another college student who was crying for help infront of a group in a classroom. Someone was saying this is what you will be doing in the CIA then a bunch of clowns run out yelping and whooping and crowd around the door... The only old guy there was dressed in a suit was standing in the back and casually walked out the door.

    This entire video made no sense.
  • v1ctor, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2I love the guy handing out the info sheets at the end. "No really, this is when you take us seriously... now!"
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