Alberto Gonzales Heckled At University Of Florida Speech

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Alberto Gonzales Heckled At University Of Florida Speech

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales delivered his $40,000 speech at the University of Florida last night. Gonzales’ first stop on a nationwide college speaking tour got off to a very rocky start, as he had to endure shouts of “criminal” and “liar” throughout his speech. The St. Petersburg Times describes the scene:

Embattled former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was a few minutes into his speech Monday night when the first two protesters took the stage, their heads covered and hands tied behind their backs like Abu Ghraib prisoners.

One of the young men stood silently beside Gonzales, who looked down at his notes and waited for two police officers to lead him away. Then came a young man in a military fatigue jacket, who stood directly in front of Gonzales with a sign declaring: “Habeus corpus.”

Watch it:

In the speech, Gonzales said his “only regret as attorney general” was that he did not have a “better process” in place for “changes in personnel at the U.S. attorney rank.” While clearly mindful that it was the U.S. attorney scandal that brought his tenure to an end, Gonzales still does not appear to understand that it was his highly-partisan water-carrying for the White House that was the root of his undoing.

Gonzales attempted to spin the college students by arguing that history will be kind to the Bush administration. “It will take years for the entire story to be told,” he said. “We know the first manuscripts of administrations are often incomplete, and they can be inaccurate, and they have to be discarded.” Gonzales is clearly banking on the hope that the next generation of historians will forget his numerous unconstitutional and illegal actions.

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1. He's thinking, "OK, I'm making $800 a minute...I can put up with this."

Pig.

[SharkSquid]

2. As I said in the other thread

Go Gators!

Glad to see the homefires are still burning and the civic media center is still churning.

[baldguy]

3. New rule: when there's reasonable suspicion you've committed treason, shut up & disappear.

[Enrique]

4. for $40,000, I hope he was at least under oath

not that he'd care.

[groovedaddy]

5. $40,000 !!!???!!! What's wrong with this picture?

This is nothing short of insanity...I don't make that in a year and here this asshole helps gut democracy as we know it and then garners this kind of speaking fee! God help us!

[underpants]

6. No one had a taser handy?

:bounce:

[ProSense]

7. Photo

Students Protest Alberto Gonzales At University of Florida Speaking Gig

[ProSense]

8. Kick! n/t

[shenmue]

9. *My* only regret is that his ass is not in jail at this very moment.

:grr:

[intheflow]

10. Couldn't happen to a better asshole. n/t

[goforit]

11. University of flori-duh needs to be protested! Supporting a treasonist!!!

[caligirl]

12. I hear his brother lives near Santa Cruz, guy I met last week knows him.

He's another right wing nut job.