What stop with Gonzo? Texas Technique could import the drug cartel honchos from Mexico to teach management, Serbian warlords to teach population control studies, and Eric Rudolph (on furlough from the SuperMax) to teach beginning chemistry. The possibilities are endless (and priceless). If this is (fair & balanced) masked shame, so be it.
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Professor Gonzales
By Mike Licht
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Disgraced former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will receive extra-judicial punishment next month when he is exiled to remote Lubbock, Texas. In a questionable choice of correctional employment, he will be allowed contact with young Americans as a faculty member at Texas Tech University.
While waiting to testify in Federal Court, at the International Criminal Court, and before Congress for his actions as White House Counsel and Attorney General, Mr. Gonzales will teach a junior-level Political Science course, “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch” and lecture to impressionable youngsters on campus. He will also be paid to entice unsuspecting Hispanic American teens to enroll at Lubbock and at the TTU System campus of Angelo State University in San Angelo.
“Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch” indeed. Inspectors General of five U.S. intelligence agencies just released a report detailing how Mr. Gonzales, as White House counsel, told the Department of Justice to take a hike. Human rights advocates are also concerned about Mr. Gonzales’ legal justification of torture and other violations of international and U.S. law.
The academic qualifications of Alberto Gonzales to teach Political Science? An undergraduate degree in the subject.
Mr. Gonzales was offered the teaching appointment by Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance, best know outside Texas as the good ol’ boy played by actor Paul Rae in the Oliver Stone film "W."
Not all Tech students are thrilled by this appointment. An editorial in the Daily Toreador is titled “Gonzales hiring brings criticism to Texas Tech,” and two TT Facebook groups oppose his appoinment.
Mr. Gonzales will be paid a mere $100,000, which will not go far. He will need every penny to commute to his trials and hearings. Roundtrip Lubbock-DC airfare is more than $400; travel to and from The Hague (site of the International Criminal Court) costs over $2,000. Ω
[Mike Licht is a Writer/Editor at the NotionsCapital blog in Washington DC. Licht holds degrees in English from SUNY-Buffalo (BA) and The University of Texas at Austin (MA).]
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