Filed under: Naked, Law, Karl Rove, Crime, Shocking
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For those who have been following the case of the six American University students who protested Karl Rove when he visited their school in April — and then were punished by campus officials and later arrested by the Secret Service — excuse us for going over tired ground.
But for those of you who are just now getting caught up on what’s being deemed as AssGate 2007 (because one of the protesters mooned Rove), here’s an update.
Each of the kids turned their dangerous butts in at 5 a.m. today, and were then held in custody for 8 hours before posting a $100 bond each and being released.
“I hope that counts for our fine,” Joel Gardner, the notorious mooner said today, referring to the outcome of his plea agreement. “We might have to pay another $100, plus like $500 each for the lawyer.”
Mark Goldstone, a lawyer for the protesters, earlier helped them broker a deal with prosecutors that will allow their arrest records will be wiped clean (like a dirty butt). A charge of crossing a police barrier was also dropped (like a piece of poop).
So why was the heavy hand of the law applied here?
“We strongly support people’s constitutional right to protest,” Melissa Merz, spokeswoman for D.C. Attorney General Linda Singer, said, “but it has to be done within the context of following law enforcement directions aimed at ensuring public safety and order.”
It should be noted that Rove could have prevented this messy situation from progressing in the first place.
And here’s the video of the events that all started AssGate 2007:
It should also be noted that that this messy situation could have been avoided in the first place if these asshats didn’t act like spoiled little children.
Oh, yeah, a kid pulls down his pants, so he should be arrested. Give me a break! Seems like a peaceful protest to me.
Any one that supports the arrest of these kids for showing their rear needs to really stop and think about life. If the government can send our kids off to die for no reason, those said kids can show a little skin. Which is worse I ask you, seeing their butts or seeing their guts?
I can’t be sure due to the crappy (like the stuff that comes out of butts gurr) quality of the video, but it looks like the police totally botched these arrests - I didnt’ see one baton strike. The should have been some serious spankings (like when you hit a butt hur hur) with collapsable nightsticks.
Calling Michael Kay. You remember him: The American who was caned in Singapore on May 5, 1994, for theft and vandalism. Joel Gardner totally needs to have his but slapped.
Yeah, if a girl was doing the mooning, I’m SURE she’d have been arrested. This guy just needed to shave his ass first.
Knowing the GOP, it should have helped that this kid was a dude. Maybe his butt just wasn’t tight enough to get him off.
They deserve a hefty fine and a stint in jail. I’m sick of scoff-law lefty “peace” (usually they use violence to protest peace) protesters assaulting policemen, breaking through protective barricades, exposing themselves in public. If I had been in that crowd with my child I’d have had him charged with sexual abuse and a sex crime.
These filthy hippy protesters are usually unwashed, diseased and disgusting. I hope they all do a nice long stay in jail so they at least get a bath. Leftists too often try to take away the rights of regular citizens while claiming extraordinary, non-existent rights for themselves. There is no right to break through police barricades and expose yourself in public.
Serve them right if they do 90 days. Then they can expose themselves all they like, and will probably find an appreciative audience for once.
Unruly protesters break laws with impunity in the name of ‘free speech’- free speech does not give you the right to break laws, assault policemen, disobey a lawful order from a policemen, threaten politicians or ANY citizen, trespass, or commit sex crimes (exposing yourself in public).
Good for the police, shame on these filthy hippies.
You yobs just don’t get it…What these little shits did was a THOUGHT CRIME, and Big Uncle no longer tolerates such preversions. Individual thought is definitely DoubleUngood…WAR IS PEACE…If they don’t like Freedom, they should go to Russia.
Darcy,
Sorry, but your outdated stereotypes of peace protesters does not really mesh with those who wish for peace today. You may hide your head in the sand and pretend it is only the ‘dirty hippies’ who are against this war, but unless 70% of this country is comprised of dirty hippies, the numbers belie you.
Their acts may disgust you, but they are no more disgusting hate speech spewed on AM radio every day by the traitors who wrap themselves in the flag and call themselves patiots.
All politics aside, it’s a simple matter. Is it legal to bare your butt or not? You won’t find anyone who disagrees with Mr. Rove’s politics or methods more than me, but if it’s against the law to bare your butt in DC (which I’m inclined to think that it is, though I don’t know for sure) than these kids should have been arrested.
The kid has bared his butt several times — as a frattish prank. But only Karl Rove can’t accept it was a prank. That the government has actually been investigating these kinds of childish expressions as somehow terror-related is a travesty. Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden could walk up to the front door of the White House and ring the doorbell.
“Kids”? These kids were adult university students. The article makes them sound like young children, which is NOT the case at all.
“Kids”? The “kids” were, in fact, adult university students. The article is written to make it sound like young children were arrested for playing a prank.
I’m a little confused. How exactly did the Secret Service differentiate the protesters asses from Karl Roves face?
You should be confused, Stan. And why did they wait from April all the way until September to arrest the students?
So, JoJo, let’s judge you for what you did in college? That lesbian threesome you fail to mention on your resume… is that up for public consumption now?
Terry wrote: “… could have been avoided … if these asshats didn’t act like spoiled little children.”
You mean Rove and his owners, not the college kids, right? If anything, the Secret Service arrested the wrong assholes - though I can understand the mistaken identity issues involved.
Rove just wanted to get closer to some male ass before he left for Texas. The Texas boys are harder to turn.
I stand behind the protestors. I assk you butt one question. Are we at the posterior of good taste or can we let a few pranks fall to the rear of our sensibilities? This could be a low or hiney jerk reaction. If we can smell the derriere in the air we can take back a rump of territory, to which our good senses will not be in arrears.
What was good for Kent State +36 years ago is still good today: If you protest, be prepared to be shot. You’ll note that the Chinese haven’t had much problems with trouble-makers since Tienneman Square…
But don’t be prepared to get shot in the butt!
What has been reported is that Karl Rove saw the butt in question and asked the driver to stop. Everyone with him assumed he was offended when all he was actually doing was remembering Jim/Jeff, so they called out the dogs to put a stop the the nasty that looked to have Rove in such a twitter. Emails were exchanged and a quick legal mumbo jumbo accomplished and very soon we’ll be hearing of the newest pageboy on the hill.
OOH, Rasid! Are we feeling a little “Stalinesque” today?
american university?
isn’t that the place were all the thieves,liars,leeches,future corporate criminals and Banksters hone their skills?
Yes, and stupid kids, too.
Former American University Student here.
Why, yes these replies do quite kick.
Here is what happened for those who dont know.
1) Karl Rove was invited by the College Republicans on campus for their last meeting of the semester.
2) Because of who it was the list of people allowed in was kept very small. That meant that only dues paying members were allowed in. But at the same time, no members of the college paper were allowed in.
3) The room was in the basement of the building across from the parking lot in which this took place and protesters were on a public sidewalk outside the building.
4)Ass clowns as the protesters were, it was irresponsible of the CRs to not allow only a select audience as well as circumvent normal channels for bringing in high-profile guests.
5) Since this was a “surprise” guest, the school police had limited time to corral the protesters and had to bring in DC Police to take students away from Karl Rove’s car.
These charges are bullshit anyway. No one did anything to physically harm him, there was an attempt by a well known professor to call for a citizen’s arrest. But really it took only 15 minutes and Rove went on his way.
The students are spoiled idiots and anyone who defends their actions is an idiot.
GOP lackey alert!
Everyone in the US can be separated into two groups:
Republicans, and people who can actually please a member of the opposite sex. Karl Rove doesn’t believe in God.
MC Roves loves cocaine.
Oh, yeah, a kid pulls down his pants, so he should be arrested.
Er… yes, exactly. And since when are college students “kids”? They’re pretty much all 18 or older.
What ever happend to questioning authority?
Reading some of these replies, I’m suprized (and a little alarmed) how conservative my generation has become.
Kids, throw in that monkey wrench at every possible situation you can.
Life is way too short to be little johnny rule-books.
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Those kids got off easy!
Roger, if you think Bill CLinton is like Karl Rove, you need your head (and butt) examined.
won’t someone please think of the children!
/you are all a bunch of idiots
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JJ-where did anything I wrote reflect me thinking that Clinton was like Rove? I recommend less attacking strangers and more reading. Look up Vince Foster or Operation Merlin. You got a lot to learn man!
rove deserves a treason conviction and then a noose around his neck. seeing some asses (which he probably wanted to rim) is nothing
These students should go toilet paper turd blossom’s house.
These kids were pretty brave. If I was a boy, I would never let my naked butt get anywhere near a Republican politician.
Well to be fair, these terrorists are pretty clever, they might have a weapon hidden inside their anus.
Yeah, like a cock ring.
What’s next? You give Karl Rove a dirty look and they ship you off to Guantánamo Bay? WTF
Man, that’s a shitty video. Can’t tell jack.
So the kids were expected to moon him AND shoot expert video?
Karl “Turd blossom” Rove. Showing ass was just a way of cheering.
I once saw parents freak out when 2 streakers came running through a local restaurant. It was hysterical at how these parents were “so offended”.
We in the USA are too offended by others nudity.
Mooning, while not in good taste, is not a threat to anyone’s security but arresting these kids may very well have broken some civil rights laws…..like the right to peacefully assemble.
I hope these kids sue the govt.
The almighty USA, home of freedom
This is a reply to darcy_lane. I will admit they broke through the police barrier, but to to say that they; “(usually they use violence to protest peace) protesters assaulting policemen, breaking through protective barricades, exposing themselves in public).” When has this happened? This is characterizing all protesters as a band of hoodlums who would like nothing better than violence. As far as “unwashed” who are you to judge anyone? Did you have a bad experience with a “hippy”? Your child you are speaking of, was he/she left fatherless by one of these types and now you have a grudge? Before you decide to troll on a comment board try and live in what the rest of like to call “the real world.”(no not MTV)
As mom of the mooner I find some of these comments pretty amazing - while I too disagree with mooning and have told my son to use his brilliant mind not his butt, the people who have commented on “spoiled idiots” are blog bystanders that don’t know what it takes to work 40 hours a week, go to school, pay rent and moon Karl Rove! And it is your and my and the Rove mooners taxes that have paid for a 5 month investigation from what University officials state was a 3 minute protest (see original article from Washington Post in early April) Even the most conservative among you…don’t you feel the secret service and attorney general’s office need to be worried about a whole lot more than this - like the integrity of the administration in question or is that so long gone that we don’t even think about it anymore? Also it should be noted that all of this was hearsay - the video is not incriminating so this was all by word of mouth. If you want to be embarassed for a parent - be embarassed for the mother and father of the president of the college republicans. That he would not speak up and be ashamed that this has happened to fellow students is appalling.
PS to Darcy- my son is well groomed
Where’s the video promised in the article
Putting “And here’s the video of the events that all started AssGate 2007″ immediately above a picure advert (and having no video) so people will be tricked into clicking the advert is very low
Desperate for revenue much?
YES !!
I can see how someone’s ASS can be misconstrued AND used as a deadly weapon_
Go AU! I guess I’ll donate to the alumni association. Compare/contrast with Georgetown who welcomed Tenent with open arms. Makes me sooo proud (sniff! sniff!)
the headline would have read: “secret police seize protesters” in any other country, and many posters see nothing wrong with this, get real, rove is an advisor, and the secret service are not there to defend his delicate sensibilities, they are there to defend him against real threats, not bare butts
Seems to me this is much ado about nothing.
Hopefully, the kids will learn that you can’t do whatever you like regardless of the law.
Exposing yourself is not okay, even to protest.
This is called ‘tough love’ and was always likely to end up with everything dropped and the record clean afterwards.
But regardless of how you feel about a person, you are supposed to be respectful of them. Period.
That’s why you won’t catch me at an Obama appearance flipping him off.
It’s also why I won’t be mooning Shrillary.
Y’know, Karl Rove is probably a closet gay, like the republicans tend to be, so I don’t see how this was offensive or bad for him. I bet hes watching that mooning video right now.
Geez, how long have you been waiting to crack out that gem?
i went to school with joel and i must say this doesn’t surprise me at all.
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oh yeah, and fuck apples. they suck, don’t they? who’s with me on that, fucking dirty apples, showing off their skin like that, why don’t they get a job, and stop bombing innocent grass and Issac Newton?
Being nude in public is a sex crime? Give me a break!
Darcy lane, I think you need to see a shrink.
[…] Karl Rove gets Mooned by Kids, Kids taken by Secret Service, now released […]
[…] Hmm. Joel Gardner , DC’s most famous Karl Rove mooner, had definitely better consider moving to Australia. And, girls, you’ve gotta wonder if his luscious butt would look just as nice down under. […]
Mr. Gardner has been traduced above, and in the Press, by just about everyone who possesses a Word Processor(the eminent exception being his Mother). By far the most contemptible of his abusers is the Enigma, ‘B’ (which denotes “Brian Ko,” a parody from Desert Vista High School in Arizona, and who knew Mr. Gardner only as “the palpitations in the heart of a flea through a microscope”
, who appears from Vapor to tell the World that Joel Gardner is a kind of Leftist Cliche. I shall attempt to redress my old acquaintance with cloth which does not stink of James Dean:
First: Joel is no kind of Politico; he abjured that game a long time ago; Social Reality tends to Die rather quickly for Hyperboreans like us (Especially those of us who spent time at Desert Vista Debate; Everything was Solipsized).
Second, He isn’t, in any sense, an ‘average college student’ (as one of his eloquent appraisers from the Press would have it). He has nothing of the Vulgarian or the Impostor in him; what he has is a delightful ‘Free Intelligence,’ which was informed when I knew him by Marx and Plato (A superb Combination; the principle of an irreconcilable paradox should be apprehended by everyone at an early age). Returning to the encomium: He was always highly articulate and self-sufficient, and a really first-rate Debater (I myself, squarely fifth-rate, was cocktail shrimp to his Giant Capon-leg). Finally, from what I’ve heard recently, he has an intensely powerful Libido.
Third, the act under discussion was a theatrical, not a political, one. Gardner was not a part of the Protest; he, quite literally, walked into it. His aim was Spectacle, not Statement; it was motivated by Esthetics, not Politik. It was intended as a Spontaneous Social Irony (Delivered with a splendidly insincere Innocence), a Joke against Camera Obscura, or ‘Social Reality.’ This is a simple truth; I am not playing the role of a hierophant.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200
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