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Fire and dis-bar John Yoo! No torture professors at UC Berkeley!
Today, Act Against Torture, World Cant Wait, Code Pink, and Vet’s for Peace participate in a demonstration at the UC Berkeley School of Law graduation to demand that Professor John Yoo, author of the legal memo justifying the Bush administration's use of torture, be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes.
John Yoo is the legal architect of the Bush Regime's torture policies, the war criminal who wrote the legal memos used under the Bush Regime to justify and legalize torture, the Military Commissions Act, and the doctrine of "the unitary power of the executive." In other words, thanks to John Yoo, if George Bush declares someone to be an "enemy combatant," the person can be snatched from their home in the middle of the night, thrown in a dungeon somewhere in the world, and tortured – with no right to a lawyer and no habeas corpus. This is not about John Yoo’s “academic freedom.” This is about the gruesome reality of torture that bureaucrats pushing paper and professors sitting in offices help to facilitate. By the post-WW2 Nuremburg standards (that were used to prosecute and convict the Nazis), John Yoo is a war criminal and should be dealt with accordingly.
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well done!
Mon, May 19, 2008 9:06PM
a good article
Sun, May 18, 2008 1:06AM
This is great...
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