Monday, September 18, 2006

What a Yo Yo. A Dangerous Yo Yo


From here:
01/08/06 "revcom.us" -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles. (emphasis added)
That's this guy:
John Choon Yoo (born 1967), a professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). A Korean-born American, he is best known for his work from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

He contributed to the PATRIOT Act and wrote controversial memos in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva Convention as a means of diminishing legal challenges regarding war crimes
I feel like I'm watching a grade B movie. You can't make shit like this up. This is the man who has set the moral tone for the Bush Administration.

Torture is morally wrong. Why is this such a difficult concept to get through the idiot brain of John Yoo and his enablers in the White House?

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