Long Arm Dept.
Karl Rove to spend retirement persecuting AU students who showed him their asses
When Karl Rove spoke on AU’s campus at an April drool-fest organized by the College Republicans, he was met by a handful of angry students baring their asses and laying in front of his car. Most of the kids were dragged off by campus security and were mandated 40 hours of community service by the University.
“When I got the JAMS thing, I thought that was ridiculous,” Joel Gardner, one of the mooners, said about the school’s disciplinary actions. “But now I’m like, ‘What the fuck?’”
On Friday, Gardner and the rest of the group were notified by AU’s Dean of Students that the Secret Service has issued warrants for their arrest. Details are scarce because nobody seems to know what the fuck is going on and we couldn’t get the Dean on the phone on a Sunday, but Gardner and presumably all the others are being charged with crossing a police line and disorderly conduct.
“I’m trying to decide whether Monday or Wednesday is a better day to turn myself in,” Gardner said. “I’m not doing it tomorrow. I guess it’ll be Wednesday.”
Update: AU’s Associate Dean of Students Sara Waldran (that might be her name) confirmed that this was all going on but didn’t want “to comment” for the sake of liability student confidentiality. I’ll also say though that she seems very nice. She also wouldn’t comment when I asked if the school had any plans to help defend the mooners. I’m going to go ahead and interpret that one as a resounding, “no.”
Another Update: Josh over at the Eagle Blog suggests I point out that Joel Gardner was, in fact, the lone mooner. The rest of the students who’ve been served with warrants were engaged in the kind of assless protesting that we’re less eager to write about.
20070827 9:52 pm
I mean, perhaps I broke the story? Who knows: http://theeagleblog.com/2007/08/23/mother-jones-on-au-catharsis-over-content/
20070827 10:12 pm
FREE YOUR ASS AND YOUR MIND WILL FOLLOW! FREE THE BARE ASSED AU KIDS!
20070828 1:33 am
It’s Sara B. Waldron, and she is the Associate Dean of Students. Faith Leonard is the Dean.
20070828 5:37 am
Great job Greg, congratulations on your intership at the wonkette. I read it every chance I get. I wish I could have been there when Rove came… If AU hangs these kids out to dry, I will be extremely dissapointed in my Alma Mater.
20070828 7:51 pm
The “Secret Service” and Rove are very lucky that these are just American kids who performed a typically American kind of protest. If this had been any other place in the world, Rove would be long dead and the Secret Service would be lolling their rabid tongues out of their faces in embarrassment. They’d be hunting for the perpetrators, who would be part of a large anti Bush “conspiracy”, taking out INS police, airport security workers and other lackeys of the neo fascists of America.
Maybe they’d go after Chertoff and Wolfowitz and Perle and other neo-con traitors of democratic values. But the kids aren’t that sharp, they just bare butts. Their predecessors in the IWW, Symbionese liberation army and SDA and others, vanished into the cultural winds of history. .