A group of demonstrators shouted “warmonger” and “war criminal” during Blair’s address to nearly 400 students at the College’s 191st commencement ceremonies.
According to the police who arrested a 53-year-old demonstrator for heckling Blair, the trouble began as he took to the podium.
Blair apparently wanted to make his speech a lesson for life as he went out of his way to promote “values” of democracy, liberty and equality of all human beings – exactly what he has been widely accused of trampling, especially by telling lies to justify the bloody war in Iraq.
“Democracy, liberty, the equality of each human being regardless of race and religion, faith, or gender, free enterprise, fair play-these values that define your nation at its best and my nation at its best-they’re not a monument to our past, they are humanity’s best hope for the future,” Blair told the audience in his seventh so-called lesson.
The police said the 53-year-old demonstrator has been released on bail.
The other protestors were apparently forced to keep silent during Blair’s speech.
Blair has been an occasional focus of protests both in Britain and abroad since he was forced to resign as Prime Minister and as leader of the Labour party in June 2007, mainly for misleading the parliament over the Iraq war.
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