[insomnia: Future American lawyers to be proud of.](http://insomnia.livejournal.com/652389.html?nc=2&style=mine) > Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him. > "When you're a law student, they tell you if say that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue... to say over and over again "it's lawful", and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough. > > In light of this, I'm proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today." > - David Cole, Georgetown University Law Professor 

This is great. A large part of the reason Republicans are always attacking universities is that they’re one of the last bastions of radicalism left in this country. These students and professors are true Americans in ways that the Right and the Bush administration will never apparently understand.

Tags: grommes, politics, spying, law, georgetown, civil+disobedience