I would like to personally thank the students @ Georgetown Law School.

[spanone]

God Bless These Kids. For not buying Alberto Gonzales'
bundle of lies. This gives me great hope.


~snip~ But as the attorney general tried to convey that the extraordinary circumstances of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks justified the program, the protesters turned to one of America's Founding Fathers for their rebuttal.

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" -- a paraphrase of a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin -- had been scrawled in capital letters on a sign that required four protesters to hold it up. ~snip~


http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/24/nsa.strategy/index.html

[Imalittleteapot]

1. Yes. Thanks GU!

:yourock:

[democrank]

2. Ditto

This was a heartwarming display of courage. I commend their efforts.

[dave502d]

3. spanone, That was nice to see.n/t

[spanone]

5. Encouraging after seeing the crowd from Kansas yesterday!

I only hope these students spoke for many.

[StClone]

4. Thanks

Thank you fine independent and reality/logic based young legal minds of Georgetown Law.

DU should set up an official Award of Civic mindedness and Constitution consciousness to offer these brave people.

[Berserker]

6. I agree

DU has the top 10 Conservative Idiots
I think DU should have a top 10 Patriots of the week.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Great idea

maybe skinner is listening. Would be good to focus on positives, too

[0007]

7. Many kudos to these brave souls....

[Hailtothechimp]

8. I agree. The media had no choice but to cover this.

Whatever Alberto the ennabler said will be forgotten. But the banner will be talked about for years to come. Well done.

[spanone]

9. That truly is the qoute of our times

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"

[sendero]

10. I join you...

... and this is the kind of action we need all over America.

We need to explain what Ben Franklin meant when he said those words, because I think there are a lot of Americans who don't really understand it.

But these folks get it, and that's a start!

[Olney Blue]

12. Way to go, next generation!!!!!!!!

:loveya:

[bpilgrim]

13. a few IMAGES - > link

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=143

will our leaders follow?

peace

[Swamp Rat]

14. Excellent!

Thanks bpilgrim!

[bpilgrim]

16. no worries

do you have that excellent image on GFP yet? i don't remember seeing it yet ;-)

:hi: Swamp Rat

peace

[Scout1071]

22. Those are fucking great! I've been waiting to see pictures.

BUT, I watched this speech live on TV and never once did I see the cameras on the crowd to show them doing this during Alberto's speech. I find it despicable they won't show the crowd reaction.

[spanone]

23. Great Pix ! Thanks

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

26. These students are proving that, in a democracy, the People lead!

"We have met the leaders and they are us!" - paraphrasing Pogo

The rest are representatives who, when they don't do their jobs honestly and well, must be fired! In a democracy, the People get the government they deserve! Democracy is not a spectator sport.

[bpilgrim]

33. hear, hear!

it is way past time for our leaders to start being responsive to weTHEpeople instead of corp usa for a change.



peace

[chat_noir]

15. we salute you!

:patriot:

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. I guess the Torture AG doesn't enjoy the same privileges of

invitation only audiences that pResident Anti-Democracy does, then? :rofl:

[jhain]

17. from here, too!

I want to buy them all big , hugh, cheese steak hoagies.

I would even get fries with that because they made THE FRONT PAGE OF CNN'S WEBSITE.
They DID it! With a photo and everything.

Knocked the damn resmuglicans and their 'shoe- in' Scalito right out of the limelight. today.

It was a beautiful thing.

[dalloway]

18. Bravo!

[bonito]

19. KICK!!!

[spindrifter]

20. Thanks for showing the way.

[Just Me]

21. Hell, YES!!! I salute those fabulous young Americans!!!

They hold the future of this nation in the palms of their hands,....and the spines in their backs!!!

:patriot: to you AWESOME AMERICANS!!!

Recommended with a :kick:

[banana republican]

24. I nominate for top 10 patriots... n/t

[Booster]

25. Saw these students earlier today and my heart filled with pride.

Most young people are a lot smarter than us old farts give them credit for, and today I'm very, very proud of them.

[EC]

27. I was very pleased to see that to some students of Law

the Constitution and the Rule of Law still means something...Bravo :applause:

[lovuian]

28. I know a student at georgetown Law and ya he is a great kid

:bounce:

[Stephanie]

29. I love them all - I am in awe. ---pix->>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x229417

This has to be the response every time one of them gets up to speak. Every time. I want to see pictures like this every day.

[Stephanie]

30. What are those colors?

Did they coordinate their colors? Looks like.

[Stockholm]

31. Great job!

Bless those young courageous students.

[Disturbed]

32. Kudo to those students.

The Dems should do this at the SOTU and then walk out.

I feel that we, non Rethugs are now at WAR with the Neo Fascists right here in the USA.

[spanone]

34. Just turning their backs on that greasy bastard is a wonderful thing.

Normally an Attorney General of the United States would provoke respect among most people. Not when you have an AG that supports torture AND spying on United States citizens, this man deserves our disdain. He should be run out on rails.

BTW...NO MENTION OF THIS INCIDENT IN MY MORNING PAPER,,,,YOURS?????

[HughBeaumont]

36. "Critics have questioned the administration's legal rationale, " ARRRGH!!

Why is it that anyone who DARES to stand up to these bunch of lawbreakers is saddled with the negative label of "CRITIC"??? No, it's merely calling domestic spying for what it clearly is: an unabashed violation of the 4th Amendment, what is so damned HARD about this? Calling something that is clearly WRONG is not being a "CRITIC". Maybe I should lop some negative labels on Republicans in regular use; labels such as "CRIMINALS", "FASCISTS", "UNCONSTITUTIONAL", "BORROW-AND-SPENDERS", "WARMONGERS", "HATEMONGERS", "BLOODTHIRSTY BERZERKERS", "TORTURERS", etc.

[Bridget Burke]

37. A bit of background....

Georgetown University began with the vision of John Carroll, an American-born, European-educated Jesuit priest who returned to the United States in 1773 with the goal of securing the future of American Catholicism through education -- in particular, through the establishment of a preeminent Catholic place of higher learning.

As America's first Catholic bishop and a strong supporter of the American Revolution, Carroll firmly believed that a Catholic institution could make a major contribution to the political, cultural, and educational life of the fledgling nation. In 1789, he acquired the deed to a plot of land overlooking the Potomac River outside the village of George-Town for the "Academy at George-Town." The school was, in the emerging tradition of American religious tolerance, to be open to "every class of citizens" and students of "every religious profession."

Carroll saw Georgetown as an academically rigorous Catholic academy with a diverse student body. The vision of John Carroll continues to be realized today in a distinctive educational institution -- a national University rooted in the Catholic faith and Jesuit tradition, committed to spiritual inquiry, engaged in the public sphere, and invigorated by religious and cultural pluralism.

http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=736

The concept of diversity has grown as our country has.

Georgetown University Law Center began in 1870 and was the first law school established in the United States by a Jesuit institution of higher learning.

[helderheid]

38. they rock!!