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

[Pat Kraut]

I am going to order this book...I believe it has a lot to say about some  colleges.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Force 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:28 PM
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Fw: Law Students and the Pursuit of Justice


  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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