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Seems to me all their reprehensible arguments boil down to this assertion: "Every four years, America elects (or re-elects) a total dictator, answerable to no one, no law, no authority."
Meanwhile, is anyone watching Bernanke testify before Congress? It's painful...he couldn't even be sure BS will be able to return the $30 billion (less $1 billion JPMorgan kicked in for good measure) to the taxpayers' coffers. Doesn't sound so competent when grilled by committee members who know their stuff.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Highlevel_members...
Sands reports that these senior advisers face a real risk of criminal investigation if they set foot outside the United States, despite the Military Commissions Act, signed into law by President Bush in 2006. The hitch is that their immunity is good only within U.S. borders, and rather than protecting them, the act may lead to an eventual investigation by foreign governments. For some, the future may hold "a tap on the shoulder." Sands consulted a judge and prosecutor in a major European city, both of whom are familiar with these sorts of cases. The prosecutor called the act "very stupid," explaining that it would make it much easier for investigators outside the U.S. to argue that possible war crimes would never be addressed in their home country. "It's a matter of time," the judge told Sands. "And then something unexpected happens, when one of these lawyers travels to the wrong place."
"Our ancestors fought the British to drive that nonsense off the American continent. Now it's back. We might have to fight again."
Didn't we fight them there so we wouldn't have to fight them here? D'oh!
He should be in prison, or better yet, in a cemetary.
I believe Douglas Feith is still a professor at GEORGETOWN.
John Yoo and the rest of the lot should have their law licences revoked. These people shouldn't be allowed to teach or practice law ever again.
even Kings obeyed laws. The Bush administration thinks they are masters of the universe.
If the president is above the law, then basically there is no point of having law but to serve the king? Very sad and dark days they have been.
Georgie is showing them how it's DONE! WOO-HOO!!! (SN)
GOBAMA!
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Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos
Seymour Hersh speaking at an ACLU event. He says the US government has videotapes of children being raped at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
" Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
There's also a piece worth reading in this week's Newsweek about new allegations of rape and sexual torture at Abu Ghraib. Feature includes details on the identities of the Iraqi prisoners shown in those widely-circulated photographs -- including Satar Jabar (charged with carjacking, not terrorism), whose iconic hooded figure with wires attached is derisively described by many Iraqis as the "Statue of Liberty."
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/15/hersh-chil...
Hillary's negatives in the polls are higher than her positive numbers.
Hillary scores the lowest when it comes to honesty.
Both republicans and Democrats think that Obama will be harder to be beaten, by McCain, than Hilllary (Gallup Poll).
Aren't these good enough reasons for Hillary to quit, and give the Democrats and Obama a good chance of winning in November?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105904/Dems-Reps-Agr...
Sorry, "Fuck Yoo" is already taken.
admissions@law.berkeley.edu
Just look how well her audition is going!
She endorsed McCain!
The Neocon agenda IS Hillary's agenda.
Fuck-Yoo too.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x2882.xml?ReleaseID=1164
Yes, I remember reading his article about it . He broke that story several years ago.
The tapes have still not been released. US troops raping Iraqi BOYS.
who who
who who
Hillary is a lying sack of shit and no better than Chimpy or McCrazy.
I was following that story. Hillaryous! Clinton got fired from the Watergate commission because she was more corrupt than Richard Nixon. LOL
http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm
I don't understand why this isn't a bigger story frankly.
The one unifying theme Progressives seem to stick together on is the right to Counsel.
I mean...WTF??
SHOUT THE WALLS DOWN!
A BuzzFlash reader who is a former Judge Advocate General (JAG) military attorney wrote a compelling nomination for the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award this week:
"Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer is the Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan. Lt. Cmdr. Mizer filed a brief in Hamdan's Guantánamo military commissions case, alleging that senior White House appointees to the Pentagon are orchestrating war crimes trials to help Republicans in the upcoming 2008 presidential campaign. Mizer argues that the blatant political interference makes it impossible for Hamdan to get a fair trial. Read the full story here in the Miami Herald.
"Over the past 7 years, there have been several military lawyers in the news who have made me extremely proud to be a former JAG. They include former Wings of Justice winner Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift (July 5, 2006, April 5, 2006) for his hard fought Supreme Court victory in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case; and, both Marine BG James C. Walker and Army MG Scott Black (for the testimony they gave to the House Armed Services Committee in opposition to the Military Commissions Act and the Detainee Treatment Act).
"Like Lt. Cmdr. Swift before him, Lt. Cmdr. Mizer has put his devotion to truth and justice ahead of his military career. (Lt. Cmdr. Swift was passed over for promotion, and was forced into early retirement, after winning the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case). Honestly, in these very trying times, I sleep easier knowing that America can count on military lawyers from the Judge Advocate General's Corps to stand up to the Commander-In-Chief, and for the Constitution and the Rule of Law.
http://wingsofjustice.com/08/04/woj08014.html
The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told police he used the Internet to make a date with a prostitute and paid her $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.
http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/17222329.html
its a re-hash... we knew Woo wrote this memo, what... three years ago?
not that its a bad idea to dredge this kinda stuff up to wake the sheeple up a bit more... but is that why they wrote the article?
this is old news, re-written... with nothing new added.
That poll you cited seems like an anomaly . Clinton is still leading in PA, but Obama can still win it. He's already closing the gap.
Why Obama Can Win Pennsylvania
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/2/103233/0...
This is the "Principles of Community" statement at UCal Berkeley, where John Yoo teaches Constitutional Law.
This is the faculty listing at Boalt Hall School of Law, UCal Berkeley's law school. As you will see, every single one of these professors and deans has an email address and a phone number.
I think you can see what I'm getting at.
Here is a copy of one of my letters to his colleagues/employers, in this case the Assistant Dean for Student Services. I will be writing several of these letters over the course of the week. I hope to make John Yoo's continued presence at Boalt Hall radioactive, to the point where his colleagues won't speak to him and students won't sign up for his classes.
I hope others will follow this model. Maybe Yoo will never end up in the Hague, but his public reputation at home can be destroyed with enough work.
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are you really just a shadow
of a man that i once knew?
are you crazy are you high?
are you just an ordinary guy?
have you done all you can do?
are you really doctor
are you really doctor
are you really doctor
are you really dr. woo?
I just love Steely Dan and use any excuse, no matter how irrelevant (like a typo), to spout their lyrics.
:)
What's up with the Wa Po article NOW?? They ALREADY wrote about it in 2005 (the second link below).
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/200...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture...
The Hersh story about "rape tapes" I posted earlier is old news too. (albeit we have no release of said tapes)
Some interesting rehashing going on out there.
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Sorry Soundboy! :)
I just love Steely Dan and use any excuse, no matter how irrelevant (like a typo), to spout their lyrics.
:)
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Drive west on Sunset
To the sea
Turn that jungle music down
Just until we're out of town
This is no one night stand
It's a real occasion
;-)
They are hounded down
To the bottom of a bad town
Amid the ruins
Where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings
Their dark companions
While the memory of
Their southern sky was clouded by
A savage winter
Every patron saint
Hung on the wall, shared the room
With twenty sinners
See the glory
Of the royal scam
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble Lord,
To the noble Lord High Executioner!
Bow down, bow down,
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble, noble Lord,
To the High Executioner!
--The Mikkado
http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/mikado/webopera/...
bush and all his criminal thugs are the most UNPATRIOTIC freaks who should have been thrown out of our government by Pelosi, Reid, etc. But enabler inour own party are also to blame for the demise of our democracy.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB12070943...
IMPEACH NOW!
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Here is his WashPost piece he wrote. His arguments are those of maybe a high schooler.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/opinion/17yoo...
I have heard that John Yoo is currently a professor at your school, who has taught (amongst other things, I am sure) "International Civil Litigation."
I'm glad he wasn't attempting to teach a class about International Criminal Litigation, as he seems to think there is no international court that could bring criminal charges. Or does that only apply to the President of the United States?
I have begun reading his memo (March 14, 2003 Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States) and am quite honestly APPALLED. I have always held your University in high regard, but that you would employ a professor who espoused such criminal nonsense makes me seriously question the judgment shown in hiring him, as well as the quality of law education available at your institution. I am sure I am not the only one wondering why this man still has a job, and I sincerely hope that he was hired without knowledge of legal opinions such as the ones shown in this memo.
Please seriously consider showing the world that your respect for the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States is undiminished by firing Mr. Yoo. Any person who would willingly write such a memo does not deserve a position teaching future lawyers. Consider the world that would be created by lawyers willing to say that basically, the laws do not apply... what a horror!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Penn...