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A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law School

By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Sat Jan 28, 2006 at 11:41:09 PM EST
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales came to speak last week at Georgetown. Check out the pictures.

In Gonzales' speech, he attempted to justify the warrantless NSA surveillance program of U.S. citizens. During the course of the speech, the students did something both ballsy and brave-- They got up from their seats and turned their back on him.

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    A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law School | 23 comments (23 topical)
    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#1)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 02:54:18 AM EST
    Kudos to the Georgetown Law students. I'm proud of them for this. They can see clearly and immediately through the maze of lies and deceit and the mountains of bullsh*t that so many others are unable to even recognize. If a protest movement starts to sweep the universities to the extent it did in the sixties we'll get somewhere.
    We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. --Martin Luther King, Jr. quote from turnyourbackonbush.org
    "To live outside the law, you must be honest"

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 03:25:08 AM EST
    Did a short video compile of footage of that the other day, with comments by David Cole at the end On CanOFun

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#3)
    by profmarcus on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 05:48:44 AM EST
    i'm impressed... i'm also distressed - although not at all surprised - at the virtual lack of media coverage... what a wonderful lead that would have made for the evening news shows... Visit my blog: And, yes, I DO take it personally

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#4)
    by DonS on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 06:29:52 AM EST
    Anyone who has a respect for the ideal of the institution of "the law" we were given in law school -- with all its twists and turns in practice -- cannot help but be moved by this protest.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#5)
    by Johnny on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 06:41:00 AM EST
    Why do Georgetown students worship Al Qaeda?

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 06:51:56 AM EST
    "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#7)
    by DonS on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 07:33:56 AM EST
    Johnny's statement appears to be libel. We do have an open-minded host.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#8)
    by squeaky on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 08:20:46 AM EST
    Briliant expression of our feeling towards the creep. Hats off to the organizers at Georgetown and TL for informing us of the event. Shunning had to have an emotional effect on the guy unless he has lost every last drop of his humanity.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 08:24:35 AM EST
    Actually, Johnny is satirizing folks like Chris Matthews who compare OBL to Michael Moore, and some who are willing to give up civil liberties in the name of the WOT have expressed sentiments like Johnny's in the past on this magazine.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#10)
    by DonS on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:05:34 AM EST
    Gotcha DA. Thanks for the the context. I should have checked further down the comments for a satire alert. Sorry Johnny.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:09:08 AM EST
    DonS- You are not alone, I did not get it either.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#12)
    by Johnny on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:20:13 AM EST
    Sorry, forgot my "sarcasm intended" disclaimer... :P

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:37:25 AM EST
    "You can't fool the youth, cause the youth know the truth...Yes they know, yes they know, it's the healing of the nation" -Jacob Miller

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#14)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:39:00 AM EST
    When I was at the gym, "Fox&Friends" showed Gonzales but none of the protesting happening in the same room. ...wow.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#15)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 09:57:19 AM EST
    "Fox&Friends" showed Gonzales but none of the protesting Surprising... [sarcasm intended]

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#16)
    by demohypocrates on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:02:27 AM EST
    Wow they disrespect the AG and misquote Ben Franklin all in one fell swoop. Must be embarrassing to think that it is the most profound thing the Left has done in the last few years. DA The comparison between OBL and MM was about their rhetoric. Like it or not the two sound very much the same.
    "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
    Oh wow a Nazi allusion. How original. How edgy.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#17)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:18:59 AM EST
    demo: Wow they disrespect the AG and misquote Ben Franklin all in one fell swoop. Is that something like the AG disrespecting the American people, and his supporters misunderstanding the point of the students' protest, all in one fell swoop?

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#18)
    by demohypocrates on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:29:12 AM EST
    Ohhhh, the protesters had a point? I must have turned my back too soon to get it.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#19)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:33:08 AM EST
    Yea, figgers...

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#20)
    by Johnny on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:34:33 AM EST
    demo, have anything interesting to add? Oris it better to just attempt sardonic humor and not succeed?

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#21)
    by Dadler on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:35:06 AM EST
    Demo, It's America, bud. They are actually engaging in the only thing freedom means: the right to say no to the political powers that be. I'll get worried when there's no one out there protesting at all. And any comparison between the "rhetoric" of bin Laden and Michael Moore, and I can hardly take this seriously, is chidlishly irrational and, like I said, I just can't take it seriously. Michael Moore is an American muckraking filmmaker and writer. OBL is a fugitive wanted on murder charges, who supports Sharia law, the subjugation of women, to name a few. There are about as similar as tree and a bee, no offense to either.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#22)
    by jondee on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 12:24:18 PM EST
    This carpet crawling Texacutioner has about as much business being Attorney General as I do.

    Re: A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law Schoo (none / 0) (#23)
    by Repack Rider on Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 12:31:29 PM EST
    The comparison between OBL and MM was about their rhetoric. How about Bush repeating the Al Qaeda party line, "Americans should fear Al Qaeda"? Isn't that what AQ wants us to believe, and isn't that the opposite of our resolve at the start of WW II, "There is nothing to fear except fear itself"? Why does George W. Bush repeat AQ talking points? Why does he insult the Americans who fought WW II but refused to fear the enemy? Isn't the answer obvious? Without AQ and OBL he would be clearing brush on a Texas ranch -- someone else's, for $5 an hour. No wonder he is Bin Laden's biggest fan.

    A Good Day for Dissent at Georgetown Law School | 23 comments (23 topical)