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Title: Georgetown Law Students Turn Backs To Gonzales
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Rense
URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general69/georgetwn.htm
Published: Mar 6, 2006
Author: Rense
Post Date: 2006-03-06 13:00:29 by Brian S
Keywords: Georgetown, Students, Gonzales
Views: 145
Comments: 22
3-6-6 Future American lawyers to be proud of. Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown Law School today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him. To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet. Fortunately for him, it was a brief speech... followed by a panel discussion that basically ripped his argument in half. And, as one of the people on the panel said, "When you're a law student, they tell you that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue... to say over and over again "it's lawful", and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough. In light of this, I'm proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today."
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#6. To: Brian S (#0)
This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened. Students at a college, I think in Kansas, did the exact same thing. This could become habit forming. Nice kind of addiction to have. ;0)
Let's see how this regime reacts to college student protests. Will they go this far?
I wonder what happened to that girl who's screaming over the body in the Kent State picture. That's such a traumatic thing to happen. I wonder what she did with her life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Vecchio
#15. To: robin (#14)
wow, thanks. I had wondered how she made out. Sounds like she had a lot of trouble but settled down eventually. That pic is so haunting -one of the great images of a generation.
How in the world did you manage to find that and post it in only two minutes? I can envison a search that would take several hours.
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#16. To: robin (#14)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Vecchio
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