Protests Greet Gonzales At Harvard Reunion

(AP)  A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.

"When the photographer was getting everybody set up and having people say 'cheese,' the protesters yelled: 'say torture, instead,' 'resign' and 'I don't recall,"' said Nate Ela, a protester and third-year student.

Law school spokesman Mike Armini said the impromptu protest Saturday was so small that some of those attending the photo shoot did not notice it.

Ela said the protesters followed Gonzales into the law school's library, chanting "shame" and "resign," before the attorney general's security detail took him to his motorcade.

Gonzales was at the university to deliver a lunchtime speech, a visit that was unannounced to students. But word spread quickly after his motorcade and security detail were spotted.

"The departure was clearly undignified," said Thomas Becker, a second-year law student who wore the black hood and orange jumpsuit during the protest. "He looked really annoyed."

A Department of Justice spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Gonzales is resisting pressure to resign as lawmakers question whether he could effectively run the Justice Department amid the controversy over the firings of eight prosecutors.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Reagan is the inventor of the amnesia alibi. These idiots should just forget about running this country.

[shingles1]

Whatever you may think of Reagan, his administration was a model of efficiency, transparency, and ethical governance compared to the bozos in charge today.

Everytime Bush compares himself to Lincoln, Churchill or Reagan all three of them collectively groan and turn over in their graves.

[jjreding-2009]

Awwww, Gonzo looked 'annoyed'. I wonder how 'annoyed' the fired US Attorneys looked.

[dodaz-2009]

MAYBE -THEY SHOULD HAVE THROWN SOME ROTTEN TOMATOES ?...It would be no less Juvenile than what this Admin. has been up to the Last several years !

[jimibear]

Reagan deserves some credit for the fall of Communism, to be fair. I didn't agree with a lot of his policies per se, but I do think that he actually had the interests of the nation at heart, and he was a good motivator and speaker. Although it's true that he did little good to social programs, his plan to outspend the Soviets until their system collapsed did in fact work, and it's hard to argue with success.

In contrast, Bush has the interests of himself and his friends at heart, and is a barely articulate national embarrassment every time he opens his mouth. He has failed at every endeavor in his life, reserving the worst disaster for the most important job - his sham of a presidency.

I say "sham" because the only way in which anything his administration has done makes sense is if you look at his entire term as an ongoing robbery of the nation on a grand scale. He has damaged the economy, the environment, our international relations, our educational system ... you name it, he's hurt it. The only people who have profited are those fat cats he refers to as "his people".

And yet somehow, some non-billionaires continue to support him. Such blind stupidity beggars explanation, frankly; only near-retardation or totally delusional thinking can make Bush look like a good president.

[jimibear]

Quick work to get a protest organized for an unannounced arrival. Good for them. Whether you agree with their views or not, it's free speech in action - unlike, as other posters have pointed out, the usual whitewashed photo-ops that Bush admin appearances are.

[lagniappe13]

Folks, Pres. Reagan dismantled communism. Your rhetoric that the communists did themselves in was partially correct. They attempted to keep up with the USA and communism failed. Capitalism prevailed. Reagan promoted capitalism around the world and that's a good thing.

[superdem]

Reagan is credited with bringing down the Soviet Union but all he did was pull American tax dollars out of social programs and plow it all into a huge military arms buildup, enriching the defense contractors while impoverishing America, and coincidentally the Soviets were forced to attempt the same, but they were an impoverished empire to start with so the arms race could not be sustained on their side, and yes, they imploded. I never saw street people in Washington DC until the Reagan Administration. By the way, Reagan dealt arms all over the world and certainly propped up horrible right wing regimes in Central and South America, not to mention sell arms to Iran, involving Israel in the deal. The worst thing Saint Ronnie did was get hundreds of Marines killed in Lebanon because he couldn't control Israel. That should have earned him impeachment but NO - the right wing deifies him. Go figure.

[jsl45]

I only hope that Shrub the Dumbnificent and Darth Cheney receive the same kind of treatment from the American people when they leave office; after they leave office they want be able to use the police or secret service to keep the protesters out of sight. I personally plan to show up at any public function they plan to attend in my home town and meet them with boos and jeers.

[norcalruss]

LOL! A well deserved slap in the face to Gonzo! * say cheese, the protesters yelled: say torture, instead, resign and I don't recall. * That was rich! I wish I could have been there to see it. Maybe that is why you rarely see anyone from the Bush administration at events that are uncontrolled and contain more than their cheerleaders and bootlickers. They want the audience filled with then same kind of people that the CHIMP surrounds himself with, YES MEN!