[Vision2020] Fw: Law Students and the Pursuit of Justice

[Ron Force]

It was mentioned in the AP story of January 25:

Confronting Gonzales during his nearly half-hour speech were more than a
dozen young people in the audience who turned their backs to him and held up
for a banner for television cameras. The banner, loosely based on a Benjamin
Franklin quote, read: "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security
deserve neither."

And Bill O'Reilly sure noticed:

O'REILLY: And in the "Impact" segment tonight, a couple of years ago I made
the mistake of booking far left Georgetown University law professor, David
Cole, on this program. After the segment, Cole ran to Howard Kurtz of the
"Washington Post" and completely misstated his experience on "The Factor."

Of course, the liberal Kurtz printed the attack, even thoroughly explained
to Kurtz that the professor was wrong in his assertions.

Anyway, Cole is not a quality guy in my opinion. And therefore, I was not
surprised to see him in the middle of a very troubling display at Georgetown
yesterday.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was invited to the college to talk about
the NSA controversy. And faced a bunch of hostile protesters who turned
their back on the attorney general, disrupted the proceedings and then
didn't even listen to what he had to say.

Nothing wrong with protest, but disrespect is another matter.

Joining us now from Washington, David Rifkin, a member of the U.N.
Commission on human rights. Mr. Rifkin was at that Georgetown University
event.

Do I have it right or I miss anything? I just thought this was disrespectful
to the attorney general?

DAVID RIVKIN, MEMBER, U.N. COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: It was. And I would
say that every time you go to a liberal campus, and that is unfortunately
the case with most law schools in this country, you may encounter such
protests.

I though it was very courageous for the attorney general to go and deliver
the message that needed to be delivered

I thought the students were disrespectful. And, as you mentioned, the thing
that was sad is having finished the speech, we had a debate in which
Professor Cole and I and two other people participated, and the students
left immediately. So obviously they were not interested in listening to the
exchange of views.

O'REILLY: You know, if I were Attorney General Gonzales, I would not have
attended any event where Professor Cole was seated. Because he is a
virulently anti-Bush far left radical guy. And I don't know why the Attorney
General wants to put himself in a position where, as you said, he is not
going to persuade the protesters or Cole. The protesters are not even going
to listen to him.

And Cole has convicted both the Attorney General, the president and
everybody else of crimes. This professor has convicted all of these people
already. In his mind, they are guilty of all kinds of legality.

So why would the Attorney General even bother going in there?

RIVKIN: I would imagine, Bill, that again, if you want to reach a broad
audience -- it was, you know, taped for C-Span. You don't just look at the
audience in the room. You try to reach a broader audience and, quite
frankly, again, if one did not want to face a hostile reception, one
wouldn't go to any law school in this country.

O'REILLY: Well, I don't know. I think you could have gone to American
University, for example, maybe to George Mason and gotten a fairer hearing
and still gotten the C-Span cameras to come over.

I just -- these radical people, like Cole and his acolytes, disturb me,
Professor. Because they don't, as you said, engage in any kind of -- you
can't persuade them. I mean, their minds are made up.

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Ron Force       Moscow ID USA
 rforce at moscow.com
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      I understand this occurred at the end of January 2006-- So why didn't
we hear of it?!


      Future American lawyers to be proud of.
      ... and Alberto Gonzales.

      Alberto Gonzales, the U.S. Attorney General, spoke before law s!
tudents at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveillance
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