Standing up for the proud tradition of heckling.

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Abusing old men is bad public relations, said Ben Russell and Andrew Grice in the London Independent. The Labor Party should have thought of that before it frog-marched an 82-year-old out of its annual party conference for the crime of heckling. Walter Wolfgang is no ordinary old man, either. A party member for 57 years, he came to this country as a Jewish teenage refugee, fleeing Nazi Germany. Apparently he has yet to find a land of freedom. Last week, Wolfgang was “bundled out of the conference hall” after he cried “Nonsense!” during Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s speech defending the Iraq war. After footage of the “heavy-handed” eviction played over and over on the news, the Labor Party “was forced to make a humiliating apology.”

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