Alberto’s first speaking engagement didn’t go quite the way he would have liked, but it’s not surprising that students protested the man who gave the President (his pal) a blank check when it comes to our civil liberties while also installing “torture” as an approved method of interrogation. Alberto is getting paid a boatload of cash (40K) to speak after disgracing his post as AG. Being a “movement conservative” is always a very profitable venture. And he took no questions from the audience.
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In his first appearance at a university since resigning in August, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was met at UF on Monday with a mixture of cheers, boos and scattered interruptions by protesters, two of whom were arrested.
Gonzales, who resigned from his position after a controversial tenure, spoke to more than 800 people at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. During his prepared speech, Gonzales largely avoided discussing the controversies he faced in office, including his dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys.
Instead, he focused on encouraging students to consider a career in public service while describing his own experiences in that field.—Later, he ignored scattered jeers from the crowd to answer questions about his dismissal of the attorneys, the Geneva Convention and torture.
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He’s a little piggy
Gonzo shouldn’t be upset. The students are just prepping him to get used to seeing people in jumpsuits, as that’s all he see in the near future.
That guy in the hood is my hero for the day.
McClellan gets a book deal, Gonzales gets 40k to open that lying torture loving shit hole of his? Fuck this shit man, crime truly pays!
PeteN @ 3:
That took some serious balls. Good for these students!!
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Gonzalez, I mean.
And folks say young people don’t know or care about what is going on in the nation. Well, they know and they are taking action or making statements against crooks like Gonzales and its great to see.
There is no doubt that the Rebubs are going to need either more Tazers or one big one!
As these criminals go out to get their ” Hush” Money “.
Do they make the Anal Tazer yet?
abu gonzo, the former torture general, deserves to be treated like the human garbage he is.
in fact, all the former and current bushbots should be, until the end of their days, followed around, mocked, protested, jeered, etc. they should never be forgiven nor forgotten. their names will forever be tied to their despotic enabling, neofascist tendencies, illegal activities and treasonous behavior. and rightfully so.
1. I wonder what those who were arrested are going to be charged with.
2. It’s kind of disappointing when only a handful of people stand up in protest with their backs to Gonzo.
3. Shame on the university for charging $$ to attend this travesty and shame on the fascist Gonzo who’s now profiting from being a (disgraceful) attorney general.
Reich-wingers every where are screaming: “Tase him, tase him!”
wow
what balls
to stand on a podium telling lies and getting paid 40 gees to do it with no remorse…
This photo and the one of Rice being confronted by blood soaked hands are starting to give me hope that we are reclaiming our democracy from these criminals. I can’t wait for the photo of Bush and Cheney being indicted.
the orange suit and black hood icon is so powerful
gonzaless has to see it in his sleep,i least i hope he does
If there is to be profit made from holding a Government position. Other than stealing or embezzling, “if you will”.
They should have to perform their job fully without resignation, and should wait for a certain amount of time as Congressmen now have to wait to become lobbyists.
Most of all, I would like to see these colleges change the format. Make it a debate with Gonzo and Waxman. Rove and Olberman. Bring in another point of view on the next speaker……………………
May fear is Blackwater and other such POS**ts
will be hired to escort these criminals around.
Won’t be long. If it isn’t happening as we blog.
I wish I could have beend there so I could throw a fucking brick at his head with the words JUSTICE written on it.
I got search at the transit center in Portland, and I ask one of the trimet bus driver of when they started searching? The answer I got was very disturbing, was that they have to comply with Homeland security protocol to get federal funding. In other word they have to keep drumming up fear of travel to sway the public to think that a guys like Gonzo is a hero. It’s all about using 9/11 to take away our Bill of Rights. As long as the fear keep us at bay, they’ll keep taking more and more for themselves.
Brick Pies.
sam sneed @ 14:
Pfffft….they don’t sleep Mr. Sneed…Gonzoid, and the rest of his…ilk, are far too busy being eeeevil and planning the downfall of this country.
The security that search me, refuse to give me their names and their supervisor name. It’s beginning to look more like Gestapo every day. We’ll get used to it, bit by bit, and they’ll take over bit by bit, as we get used to it.
Code orange …..
Did that putz say in his speech that “sometimes we stumble”? yeah and sometimes you order torture you fuck!
Oh how I hate these rightwing criminals…I hope all the Republicans are proud of your party!
apeman @ 16:
20,000 strong, well armed, with tanks and a small air force…fun fun fun.
goatsage @ 13:
I agree. Rice and Gonzales always get the big bucks for various speeches. That is a given. However, those that stand in direct opposition to war criminals and crooks, face to face, and still do it knowing the punishments they could receive afterwards are priceless. You can’t put a price on courage like that. Those students, are true patriots and are better human beings than those that they stand up to.
liberalNmoderation @ 20:
hey even dracula sleeps..
Why didn’t Gonzo pay the university $40,000 versus the other way around?
Dahgrostab’ph-r-i @ 23:
I hope all americans are proud of their country …….
The sooner you stop being divided and get it sorted the better.
sam sneed @ 14:
He couldn’t look, for fear it would unduly excite him in public.
Funny I never see any headlines about this stuff on CNN International’s crappy website … but did you hear?
“Deer leaps over police car on highway”
So if gonzo can speak, what’s the big deal with Ahmadinejad? They’re both criminals.
goatsage @ 5:
A big THANK YOU to all the students who protested. And good luck to those of you who got arrested!
Weaseldog @ 29:
oh yeah..its the Torture Guy™ for crying out loud!
there is no coverage of this story by the MSM - google it and see for yourself
Take the $40K out of [University president] Dr. Machen’s salary. Make him give more talks to make the money back. Seriously.
gumby @ 34:
Yes, but Bush pardons Thanksgiving Turkey
WEASEL
I cringe at the notion that fellers like AG are even hired for speaking engagements. The man is a CRIMINAL and a LIAR. A criminal liar. He’s lies criminally. His lies are crimes.
GEEZ!
jgr4 @ 32:
The scary bit is that some of the students actually cheered for this asshole. That is what I fight frightening….
roper @ 37:
Hey! No insulting of weasels please!
Send a reporter to the University and ask them now that its over, “Was it worth 40′ G’s to hear Gonzo” ?
And, ” What was the most informative educational benefit from Gonzo’s speech ” ?
John Ashcroft Law firm gets 52 million no bid contract to monitor some kind of medical prothesis. Can anyone say Hush money? Gonzales will be getting a very special stocking stuffer this christmas.
chickenshit chickenhawks do not take live questions. 40K and prescreened questions. life is good for gonzo.far better than it should be for sure.
“Go into public service to serve the rich and fleece the poor”, said Gonzo to the nauseated crowd. Why would anyone want to hear this criminal speak about anything?
Code orange standing next to Abu Gonzo. Priceless.
If I were a UF student I would be angry. Its my understanding that Gonzales was paid $40,000 from the student events budget that every student pays for with dues. Whoever decided to hire Gonzales for a speech without even any real Q & A deserves immediate expulsion. Who knows? Maybe they’ll try to get the money back because he wouldn’t answer questions.
Gonzales is still a criminal. Now he’s ripping off college students. Asshole.
ggy @ 17:
Oh, that’s soo funny. LOL Very descriptive.
My hat off to the protester in the hood for restraining himself…
I would have taken that hood and put it over Gonzo’s head, where
it belongs!
Did anyone else notice who exactly did the cheering at the end of Gonzo’s speech? It was a tight knot of 30-40 people on the front rows that stood and cheered when no one else did. These people were obviously actors, or plants, or whatever you want to call them…
The protesters are heroes. Good for them. Do not ever give Abu a free pass in this world.
sam sneed @ 26:
Yeah…but dracula’s way cooler than Gonzaloid…he’s more like Igor…don’t think he slept much…just scurried about, mumblin and eatin bugs and whatnot….rubbing his filthy/bloody hands together, leering and goin “Yeeesssss Massster”!
$40,000? To hear Mr. “I don’t recall” talk? Are you kidding me!? Where the hell is that money coming from, skyrocketing tuition fees? Why are parents not storming the campus with pitchforks right now demanding an explanation for that kind of payment to a disgraced official?
That Bill Kristol wanna-be with the gleaming white chicklets on his teeth was creepy.
If I were a UF student I would be angry.
Many of them here are.
On the bright side, Dr. Kevorkian is scheduled to speak in Jan..
And he took no questions from the audience.
Which would have be an expercise in futility, as congress found out. There are only so many ways you can say ” I don’t know” or ” I don’t remember”.
sheesh…exercise
Given how Gonzales pretty much gave Bush the green light to water boarding, congress should have water boarded him right there during all of those hearings when his memory got “hazy”. Just imagine seeing that on cspan.