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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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This is great work, fantastic, stuff like this is totally necessary and appropriate. But I think it would also be appropriate for the people participating in this anti-torture march--groups with names like Act Against Torture, Vets for Peace, and Code Pink--to also stand up for others being tortured, right on the UC Berkeley campus--the nonhuman animals used for cruel and unnecessary vivisection. Some of the experiments include invasive vision experiments and fluid deprivation on macaque monkeys, invasive vision experiments on cats and rodents--electrodes inserted into animals' brains, and the notorious "LD50 tests" - toxicology and chemical warfare agent experiments on rodents. There are approximately 40,000 of them, all who have no voices of their own, who are trapped in cages, being tortured and ultimately killed. I hope these groups and those who support them consider extending their laudable compassion to ALL innocent beings who suffer, and joining us in the campaign to stop the cruelty!
For info on the campaign, go to:
http://www.pixelexdesign.com/stopcalvivisection/thecampaign.html
For info on the campaign, go to:
http://www.pixelexdesign.com/stopcalvivisection/thecampaign.html
Very powerful!! Well done!! Let's keep it going. He really should be disbarred and prosecuted
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