GONZALES EMBARRASSED AT HARVARD REUNION

[flyarm]

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GONZALES EMBARRASSED AT HARVARD REUNION
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Attorney General Surprise Visit at 25th Reunion Met by Student Protests

Cambridge, Mass. Alberto Gonzales was confronted by student protesters and forced to leave through a back door on Saturday during a visit to Harvard Law School for his 25th reunion. After two weeks clinging to save his job and defending allegations that he fired eight U.S. Attorneys for political reasons, what might have been a relaxed day of reminiscing with old classmates became instead yet another reminder that both his job and his reputation are in serious jeopardy.



The Attorney General was on campus, unannounced to students, to deliver a lunchtime speech. But word quickly spread that a suspicious motorcade had been spotted by the campus center, and by the time Gonzales and his fellow classmates assembled on the law library steps for their class photo, a group of current students were there to greet him, having donned black hoods and orange jumpsuits. As the photographer told the class of 1982 to smile and say "cheese," the students yelled out that saying "torture," "resign" or "I don't recall" might be more appropriate.



The Attorney General's visit to his alma mater coincided with the third anniversary of the release of photos depicting the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and came the day after a German federal prosecutor dismissed a case alleging that Gonzales was responsible for approving the policies that resulted in those abuses. These facts were not lost on Deborah Popowski, a second-year law student who had just finished organizing a nationwide student sit-in urging Congress to pass pending legislation that would restore detainees' rights to habeas corpus. "When I heard he was on campus, I was stuffing envelopes with letters to Congress in an office two floors above. I dropped everything. Gonzales needs to know that after approving poorly-reasoned memos that distort the rule of law and justify torture, he is simply not welcome here."



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[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Fabulous

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Thank God for people like Popowski, they're not all corporate tools.

[aquart]

3. Ah, the colleges are awake. Lovely.

I particularly like the fashion choice of orange jumpsuits and black hoods. I won't question where they got them at a moment's notice.

[cascadiance]

82. Probably not to difficult to get orange jumpsuits...

I still have mine from an earlier Halloween, as I suspect many of the rest of us do too. If I couldn't make it and I knew there were a local protest here, I'd loan mine to a friend to use here! I guess I don't have a handy mask of Gonzales like I do of Chaney or Rove handy though. That's where a black hood is probably easier to find quickly!

[cal04]

4. Student protesters upset Attorney General's Harvard reunion

Student protesters wearing hoods and Guantanamo Bay garb found their way into the US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' 25th Harvard Law School reunion Saturday.

A release sent by the group to RAW STORY claims Gonzales was "forced to leave through a back door."

Gonzales apparently arrived unnannounced. Students met him and his fellow classmates outside the law library where the class of 1982 had posed for a photo.

As the photographer said cheese, the group said students yelled that "torture," "resign" or "I don't recall" might be more appropriate.

The Justice Department could not immediately be reached for comment.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Student_protesters_upset_Gonzales_Harvard_reunion_0428.html

[IChing]

Well, that made my day......nominated

No soup for you Fredo!!!!! And no party!!!!



Good show
by the students.

[Forkboy]

9. Oy yeah!

Awesome to see this stuff.

[hwmnbn]

5. He can't run.....

he can't hide.

This will happen more and more. He should just lay low and shut up before he's kicked out.

[me b zola]

34. Agreed. Every single last one of them should be greated the same, no matter where they are

I think that most of them will live the rest of their the lives as OJ does--a pariah to most, idolised by a few.

[midnight]

6. Critical thinking skills are still being used. That is so nice to know.

[Atman]

7. Proud to send this to the Greatest page.

Couldn't happen to a nastier fucking torture-mongering Bush choad schlurper.

.

[C_U_L8R]

8. How the hell did Gonzo graduate from Harvard Law ?

They should take their diploma back.... how embarrassing

[flyarm]

21. I KEEP WONDERING THE SAME THING!!!

HIS EXAM PAPERS MUST HAVE BEEN DOOSIES....I KNOW I KNOW THIS ..BUT I DON'T RECALL RIGHT NOW!!

can i get back to you on that?????????

fly

[Hand]

26. Same way Chimpy graduated from Harvard Business school.

Though I'll be damned if I can think what that would be... :dunce:

[LiberalFighter]

27. You have to know the professor's method to understand.

If it is the same as what they do here locally it is very easy.

They may have broken the class into groups and there are group assignments where everyone in the group receives the same grade. Remember that he received "gentleman c's". Averaging individual performance and group performance might have given him the C's needed to graduate. He may have even found a way to have someone do the necessary work so he could do his playing and sleeping in class.

Not having received a MBA I don't have all the details, especially for Harvard.

[NJCher]

64. you got it

Except I have a devised a way to do groups but still see/grade the individual work. I wish my colleagues would change to a more individually accountable way of grading. Too many slugs like Gonzalez are slipping through. I wish I could say it was a few but it's more like about 50 per cent of the class tries to get a free ride on the abilities of others.



Cher

[Jacobin]

41. A slightly different method, I think

Chimpy was a 'legacy'..he got preferential treatment because his father had graduated from there.

Gonzales, more than likely, due to affirmative action. gonzales clearly is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

49. Chimpy's legacy was at Yale,

with a grandfather on the Board of Trustees--but surely he had pull at Harvard, too. I remember a prof from there giving an interview where he said Chimpy spent class time throwing spitballs.

[Cabcere]

56. Spitballs?

Geez. Even the most immature people I knew stopped doing that in about, oh, seventh grade...What is wrong with that idiot? :wtf:

[MN ChimpH8R]

30. As an alum of that august institution, let me say

that getting in, not graduating, is the hard part. HLS does its QC at the beginning of the process. Flunking out is almost impossible once in the door, and the school grades on a broad and somewhat mushy B curve. At least it did when I was there a few years after Gonzo. Getting in, now that's another matter entirely.

I suspect that he got in due to good college grades, a decent LSAT (neither of which is any prediction of whether anyone will be a good lawyer, rather than a good law student) and affirmative action, which I am not criticizing or questioning for the purposes of this post. There probably weren't all that many Mexican-American kids applying to HLS in the late 1970s, and if he had a half-decent college record at a good college (did he go to UT Austin? That certainly qualifies as an excellent university.) he was a fair bet to get in at that time.

Gonzo isn't dumb. Anyone who can dream up and justify the crackpot legal theories he has been responsible for is smart and creative. He's lazy and out of touch because all he's responsible for doing is covering Chimpoleon's ass and Shooter's ass while assisting KKKarl in implementing an internal coup. He's a made man in the Bush Crime Family and knows who butters his bread.

He's not really the AG, he just plays one on TV. Ever since he took over DOJ you can bet your ass that Harriet and KKKarl ran DOJ. Gonzo is AG in charge of Sitting At The Big Desk and Taking the Heat. That's all.

P.S. The school should retroactively revoke the asshole's degree. Yesterday.

[AspenRose]

87. He went to Rice in Houston, not Texas.

eom

[MN ChimpH8R]

90. Rice is a damned fine university

Somewhere along the line, ol' Gonzo at least got good grades. But that's about the only commendable thing he has accomplished in life.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

61. Because "bright" does not equal "ethical"

.

[slampoet]

62. The Ivy League has Never had anything to do with ability, it's all about connections and breeding.

Or do i need to list all the horrible people we have had who are Ivy League grads?


In fact in Most fields a University of Michigan degree is worth more than one from say....Brown. It at least shows that you might know the price of bread.

[Missy Vixen]

68. I have a friend from another website that graduated from HLS

According to him, Harvard Business School is vastly easier to graduate from than the law program.

I'm not sure where that leaves ABU. At the same time, to hear that Harvard's students let him know he wasn't welcome -- delicious.

Julie

[TahitiNut]

76. Harvard Business School = "Charm School" for the empathy-free

It's an embarassment to Harvard undergrads and HLS grads ... but it's a source of revenue.

[Ilsa]

95. I had a boss that graduated from HBS. Said every weekend was

a paper to write and turn in for a grade on Monday. He said it wasn't that difficult. It would be easy enough for Dumbya to pay someone to do his work. I have always suspected him of doing this.

I had a boyfriend whose brother was attending HBS when I was a banker. He asked me to look at a case study he had to work up. It was the same case study I did my first year in MBA school at a small Texas university. I told what the answer was and why. He had to write it up of course to get his A or whatever, but I'm the one that solved the finance problem. After that, the only respect HBS grads got from me was the regarding the ability enter and then pay the tuition to get in.

[happydreams]

86. Is he a Skull and Bonzer?

[northzax]

96. since Skull and Bones is a society at Yale

and he went to Rice, I sincerely doubt it.

[Supersedeas]

99. is Harvard still proud of that graduate?

[eleny]

10. Students don't need a military draft to know the score

So proud of the younger generation!

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. I don't see how any of these treasonous rat bastards can show their faces

in public. Even their rabid base is starting to crumble a little bit. The chimperor's approval rating has dipped below 30%, according to a thread I saw here yesterday.

Keep showing them ALL they aren't welcome ANYWHERE... except the Hague.

The chimp was protested in Miami

Abu was protested at Harvard

Darth Cheney was protested at BYU

HEH HEH ,,,, Who's NEXT!?!? Condi? Wolfie? ....

RUN THE BUMS OUT!!

[Emit]

12. Good. n/t

[babylonsister]

13. BRAVO!!

:loveya: :loveya: Hugs to Harvard!

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

14. Deborah Popowski, Remember her name. n/t

[Gregorian]

15. Sort of like this?

Maybe what we need is a trap door.

[BrklynLiberal]

67. EXCELLENT!!

:bounce:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Boston Globe on this too:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/04/28/protesters_heckle_gonzales_at_harvard_reunion/

[Cha]

18. Thanks! Anyone with any

shame or an ounce of grace would resign but not those mainlining bush venom.

[Cha]

17. And the ol' standby...

"How Dare you SPY on me?!!"

bush morals have CONSEQUENCES!

[flyarm]

19. WHY DOES THAT LITTLE DICK GET A MOTORCADE?? EOM

[Name removed]

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[rug]

20. Harvard Embarassed By Gonzalez Return

[burythehatchet]

22. oh the power of public humiliation.

[myrna minx]

42. These people need public shaming. Their

names and reputations should always be associated with infamy, otherwise they will time and time again resurface in *shudder* other administrations. Look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Negroponte et al. They were all associated with infamous administrations and of infamous (and in many cases illegal) actions, yet, here they are, pillaging again yet the American people and the Press do not associate their dubious pasts.

[calimary]

91. Yes, they do. They can all join this nice club with OJ.

Shunned and reviled by most, excused/enabled by others.

[BrklynLiberal]

69. Exactly! They need to be pointed at and laughed at...constantly!!

[Dinger]

23. That's All Well And Good, But The Asshole Is STILL There

I'm fucking waiting for it/him to leave.

[IChing]

24. I would like to see occupation of University administration buildings again

That BSU protest went real well
and was so effective, when Cheney came to Provo. :sarcasm:

Protest are so caged and controlled now by the powers now.
You don't have to do violence but occupation of public areas are legal.

[IChing]

25. Why do University Administrators promote this Government?

In the halls of knowledge for our youth?

[beltanefauve]

72. Not gonna happen,

unfortunately, IMHO. *sh would no doubt want to replace him with another ass-kissing loyalist, and those types seem to be in short supply these days. And then, the toady would have to get past Patrick Leahy and the judiciary committee.

[WillyT]

28. Yeah Baby !!! - Woo Hoo !!!

:bounce::woohoo::bounce:


:kick:

[AnnieBW]

29. And Your Name Is....?

Let me guess, he couldn't remember any of his old classmates. :D

[eppur_se_muova]

71. That's a really good point ... perhaps some enterprising Boston reporter

could interview his classmates about their conversations with AG ... did he reminisce about old times? Recall who dated whom? Wax nostalgic about favorite hangouts? If so ... why can't he remember conversations he had with the POTUS in the last few months? The contrast could be interesting.

(You and I don't need to see the results of that little experiment, we already know ... but it might make an impression on a certain sector of the voting public.)

[fooj]

31. The natives are restless.

Truth will set u.s. free.

[loudsue]

57. This native is getting REAL FUCKING restless!!!!

:hi: Hi fooj!

It feels lately like the last straw has finally hit. There's just no more tolerance left in me for these criminals. Not an ounce.

:kick::kick::kick:

[fooj]

74. Yep. I'm beyond pissed!

:grr:

[cliss]

32. Notice how they're always "Surprise" visits?

""Surprise!!!""

These people KNOW they cannot show up anywhere, without first of all an armed escort. Secondly, they KNOW they will be hounded, no matter where they go. These guys are like prisoners, trapped in the White House.

Prisoners.....Yeah I like that concept.

[zippy890]

45. Visits HAVE to be ' surprises' or else this would happen -

When Cheney arrived for a fundraiser last September '06 in Boston:

"Cheney's visit created traffic snarls, and for a few afternoon hours, Back Bay became a congested circus. Sign-waving protesters chanted into bullhorns.
..
The protests produced numerous confrontations, as guests to the fund-raiser, which cost $2,500 per person, had to walk through a gantlet of virulent anti-Cheney activists on their way to the Harvard Club in Boston, where Cheney spoke.

``Shame! Shame!" the protesters chanted at the Republican supporters streaming by.

Grace Ross , the Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor, began giving a speech excoriating Cheney when police confiscated her microphone and speakers, citing noise ordinances."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/09/cheney_visit_is_met_by_traffic_protests/

:rofl:

I LOVE that story - oh what I would have given to be part of that protest! I especially love the 'excoriating' speech given to Cheney via bullhorn and speakers!
:rofl:

This is why they have to be 'surprise' visits to Boston

[Vanje]

59. Same as happened when Cheney visited Boise

Cheney came to Idaho to fund-raise for his hench-man, Bill Sali (R-Club For Growth) for the congressional election. Only certain republican loyalists were invited to attend.
They closed the interstate and some other major commuter routes at rush hour in order that Cheney's motorcade could travel in unmolested leisure to the airport. Traffic was stopped for hours. Tens of Thousands of cranky commuters listened to their car radios tell them that Dick Cheney was the reasson they were not home enjoying dinner with their families.
Bill Sali's polling numbers took an immediate significant dive.

(....but Sali won. It was a pretty close race But this is, afterall Idaho, where Bush's ratings are the highest among the states. Even higher than stupid places like Texas. Higher even than Mississippi, Alabama.

[ClayZ]

33. Whoot! K and R

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Jelybe903]

35. Is anyone sure it recalled where he was?

come on guys...this is not a stupid man...Stupid men don't graduate from Harvard. make no mistake, this does not mean I think he was right for the post he held...simply that he is not as goofus as he turned out looking on the stand! This is a man who risked his reputation to cover Mr. Rove and Mr. Bushes white asses. And in the end it will all be for not! He will end up being forever more known as "Scarecrow" like in the wizard of oz...the man without a brain! He destroyed his political career he destroyed any ounce of integrity he had with his peers! And as so many other times as we watch the Bush cabinet fall...we are left scratching our heads, wondering why! Wondering how such an incompetent, lying bunch of thugs can dupe the American People...Its not funny anymore!

[calimary]

92. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here! Now get to work.

[ladym55]

94. Yep, point well taken

In his interview with Bill Moyers, Jon Stewart likened Gonzales to a character in Goodfellas, who was arrested but didn't "give anything up." That's precisely what Gonzales did--played stupid in front of a Congressional committee so as not to "give anything up" and protect his mob bosses.

[The Backlash Cometh]

36. Well, damn.

I have to hand it to those Harvard students. They do get it. Someday, it could be them.

[DemReadingDU]

37. What does 588 indicate?

Everyone is holding a number in the picture. Gonzales' number is 588. What does 588 signify?

[SpiralHawk]

40. "The 'special' number is 322, Gonzo. Get with the correct cabal program." - Commander AWOL

[SaveAmerica]

48. It must be the photographer's way to keep track of who's who, one

photo with the numbers up, one without. He should have been assigned #666.

[loudsue]

58. Maybe he graduated 588th out of a class of 588 or 589?

:shrug: Just a guess??

:kick:

[malaise]

39. They must not be welcomed anywhere

Bravo Harvard!!!

[LiberalEsto]

43. Will they blacklist the protestors

like they did at BYU?

[livvy]

44. "Good riddance." Love it!

A big woot to these protesters for their vigilance and speedy action!

WOOT! WOOT!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

46. Go Crimson!

Another sign that the students on campus are waking up.

[SaveAmerica]

47. This part of the article is priceless:

Following the group photo, Gonzales ducked into the library to take a stroll around the main reading room, which, on the weekend before final exams, was full of students going over their notes. When the protestors caught up with Gonzales, the cavernous reading room, ordinarily a place of hushed whispers, echoed with chants of "shame" and "resign." Gonzales was quickly whisked down a back staircase, out a basement emergency exit and into a waiting SUV. As the motorcade pulled off from in front of historic Austin Hall, Thomas Becker, a second-year law student, stood in an orange jumpsuit and black hood, waving goodbye. When the cars were out of sight, Becker pulled off his hood, smiled, and said "good riddance."

[SammyWinstonJack]

50. So will they be put on a black list for future job searches? Since actions have consequences now.

:argh:

[enough already]

51. We need to go after these pricks anytime they show their faces in public

Shaming them is good, for starters. No more fucking free rides.

[CrispyQ]

52. Best post of the day!

:thumbsup:

[KoKo]

53. kick.....

[blogslut]

54. This thread is useless

without a pic :)

[BrklynLiberal]

70. Coooool !!!!

:thumbsup:

[flyarm]

79. greatttttt picture!!! thank you!! lol!!!!!!..eom

[Handsome Pete]

55. Now that's just rude!

<snicker>

But, it's funny as hayell, so I forgive them! Karma is a beech.

Alberto Gonzales, the worlds only genius with an IQ of 70.

[MindMatter]

60. That event was NOT embarrassing to Gonzales

In fact, I doubt he will even remember it by next week.

[Catherine Vincent]

63. Fox Noise reports this incident differently.

They did say that protestors heckled Gonzales but they ended it by saying that Harvard spokesman said there were so few protestors that hardly no one at the reunion noticed. Typical Fox Noise reporting. :eyes:

[juno jones]

65. Here, ya got me singing Tom Lerher

"Fight fircely Harvard, Fight Fight Fight!
Impress them with our prowess, do
do not let the Crimson down
Be of stout heart and true
Fight for Harvard's glorius name, It'll be peachy if we win the game (oh goodie!)"...

Satire might be dead, but ol'Tom is fun at any occasion.

[pink-o]

73. LOVE Tom Leher...

...but seriously: if satire is dead, then Stephen Colbert must be the re-animator.

[BrklynLiberal]

66. tsk tsk tsk. If you don't want to be embarrassed at your reunions, you shouldn't be an asskissing,

lying member of the Bush administration.

[Swamp Rat]

75. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

May he never find peace in America ever again! :evilgrin:

[MethuenProgressive]

77. WEEI: "Protest so small hardly anyone in Gonzo's party noticed them"

on edit: WEEI is a powerful AM 24/7 news station from Boston.

[flyarm]

80. and that is why he had to be snuck out a side door !!...lol...eom

[skids]

78. Hrm... should we prep up a calander...

...showing the 20th, 25th, 30th and 35th annual class reunions of all the scaliwags? Might help these campuses get an earlier heads up when the turkeys come home to roost.

[northofdenali]

81. Can't say much to add to this, flyarm, except -

YEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW............. :blush:

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

:thumbsup: Dems, we're gonna do it!!!!

[flyarm]

89. yeeehaaaaawwwww and wooo hoooo!!!!

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excellent harvard classes!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

fly

[Rex]

83. He should call Novakula on the phone to get some adivice on what to do next.

Robert could fill him in on some tips! Bobs been a traitor far longer than Gonzo! Give a few pointers.

[Vidar]

84. Recommende, though hardly necessary.

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

85. Just at Harvard? I would think he would be embarrassed in general n/t

[L0oniX]

88. a genuine ass carrot

[pinkpops]

93. He can't help it if he cant remember...

[northzax]

97. aw sad, HLS students?

the ones who are going to work for white shoe firms in New York or DC and spend all their time justifying the existence of the people Gonzo likes so much? please.

[IWantAChange]

98. Thank goodness we still have young people that understand right from wrong..