AMERICAblog: Dept. of Justice: Bush is above the law and torture laws don't apply
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
The real scary part is that Yoo is teaching our young people. Mr. Yoo should be waterboarded, carefully of course.
BeccaMorn
· 1 year ago
When we have a narcissistic sociopath for a President, of course nothing's left to 'shock the conscience' -- because there IS virtually no conscience.
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."
paulko
· 1 year ago
What do his students in his classes think? Are there any here? I would like to see him confronted by his law students at UC Berkeley.
EdNSted
· 1 year ago
We are an empire now...
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Good to see such blatant disregard for the Constitution in writing, though. Sounds like the basis for criminal indictments.
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.
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."
Indigo
· 1 year ago
The Divine Right of Kings is a constant in the political history of the world. Pharoahs and Roman Emperors alike reigned as gods who were above the laws they made. Being gods, they could do that. The nonsense of King George 3 and his French peers along with the German Kaisers was all about being above the law, about the European legalistic device called "Divine Right". Our ancestors fought the British to drive that nonsense off the American continent. Now it's back. We might have to fight again. That would be a touchy matter but it's worth the fight toprotect and maintain government by law in place of pseudo-divine whim.
AvCheu
· 1 year ago
Indigo - "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!
Tom3
· 1 year ago
John Yoo is a TRAITOR. Why is he working as a college professor??
He should be in prison, or better yet, in a cemetary.
BLOGGING BITCH!
· 1 year ago
Is it War Crimes Yet?
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
John Yoo is a TRAITOR. Why is he working as a college professor??
I believe Douglas Feith is still a professor at GEORGETOWN.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
bumpkis,
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.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
The GOP doesn't give a damn about our Constitution Besides gutting the Bill of Rights, their nominee isn't even a natural-born citizen, thus he is ineligible to be president. A US military base is not US soil, hence Gitmo, where US laws do not apply. The GOP can't have it both ways.
AvCheu
· 1 year ago
Hmm, hadn't thought of that - if US laws do not apply to a particular region, is it US soil?
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
Is impeachment still off the table?
Scy
· 1 year ago
Whenyou take impeachment off the table THIS is what you get. Please send a thank you note to nancy Pelosi.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Yoo is Sergeant Schultz transformed to the new millennium. He sees something but formulates legalistic constructs to ease malevolent inaction.
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
It is GOOD. DAMN GOOD to be King!
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Singing Troll,
even Kings obeyed laws. The Bush administration thinks they are masters of the universe.
AvCheu
· 1 year ago
Doesn't this in fact show that it is 1] an abuse of power and 2] that we left the monarchy behind for a reason?!!
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.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
O/T Governor of Wyoming (Cheney's "home state") endorses Senator Obama.
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Well Kings obviously had nothing on this clown! Georgie is showing them how it's DONE! WOO-HOO!!! (SN)
GOBAMA!
dad
· 1 year ago
shame.
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Curious as to if anyone has heard Sy Hersh talk about the 'rape tapes" -- 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...
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
bushco attemped full-scale take-over by the executive branch. that is the neocon agenda. if that's what you want, feel free to vote McSame in November, because he'll be an even bigger neocon puppet than W.
benmerrill
· 1 year ago
This is a very insightful commentary. It would be extremely interesting to see if there are any historical documents from Nazi Germany basically doing the same thing: legal justification for any of the Holicost actions, or other actions, as well as seeing if the authors of those memos were tried at Nuremberg. If they were, there would be a direct link from John Yoo to the Nuremberg defendants. In my opinion, someone should bring a charge against him before the Internation Courts.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
Barack Obama is ahead in delegates, the number of states won, the popular vote, and in the polls, even marginally. If it was Hillary who was ahead, don't you think big mouths like Carville would be going on about Obama dropping out.
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?
"Curious as to if anyone has heard Sy Hersh talk about the 'rape tapes"
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.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
BOO Yoo!
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Screw-YOO!
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
who are yoo? who who who who
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Clinton got FIRED from her Watergate job for lying and advocating violation of the law. She argued that Nixon was not entitled to counsel during the Watergate hearings. She HID the actual case law that said Nixon had the right to an attorney. Fortunately, there was more than one copy.
Hillary is a lying sack of shit and no better than Chimpy or McCrazy.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Yoo SUCKS!
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Tom3,
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
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Tom3,
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!
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer
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
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Is Bush using the NSA to spy on Democrats? Wait...don't answer that. 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
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
the strange thing about this article from the Washington Post??
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.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Busboy,
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.
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.
Dear Ms. Ortiz:
Please pardon this communication from a stranger, but after reading the text of John Yoo's memos, which gave the Bush Administration broad (and most likely illegal) authority to torture detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq, I was so shocked and dismayed by what I read, I felt it was proper to get in touch with Mr. Yoo's colleagues at Boalt Hall.
As I am sure you have read, Mr. Yoo, acting as a government official, argues that the Bush Administration has the power to torture children. His memos, recently unearthed by the Washington Post, led directly to war crimes at home and abroad, staining our national reputation. Although many of his memos were ultimately rescinded, the underlying theory has led to violations of many US laws, including those surrounding the treatment of prisoners, wiretapping and surveillance, habeas corpus rights, and numerous Congressional oversight requirements.
I have already suggested to my son, who is approaching college age and is interested in law, that he consider any other institution than Berkeley until John Yoo is gone from your faculty. I will be suggesting the same to my friends and family with college-age children. However, I was wondering what you think of these revelations personally: are you comfortable being associated with a war criminal like John Yoo, who advocates for the torture of children and the violation of international law? Does John Yoo bring honor to your field and to your institution? Is John Yoo the kind of person you would want instructing your children? Does John Yoo live up to your stated principles of "honesty and integrity", "affirm[ing] the dignity of all individuals and striv[ing] to uphold a just community", "freedom of expression and dialogue", and "civility and respect"?
As a concerned parent, I would be interested in hearing your views on Berkeley's seemingly lawless law professor, John Yoo. Sincerely, Brendan Skwire
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.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
whoops Woo= Yoo
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SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
are you really dr. woo? 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?
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Sorry Soundboy! :)
I just love Steely Dan and use any excuse, no matter how irrelevant (like a typo), to spout their lyrics. :)
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
Pig thread upstairs
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
again... this all came to light in 2005!
What's up with the Wa Po article NOW?? They ALREADY wrote about it in 2005 (the second link below).
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.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
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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. :) ---
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
;-)
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
:)
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
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
I do believe there is a reason for the rehash. If nothing else they are warning shots to someone.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Defer, defer, 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!
What I don't hear a lot of is that the oath the president (or any military person) takes is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution". Not the flag, the people or the officials. To ignore the Constitution is, therefore, treasonous behavior and should be treated as such.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
The reason the bush crime family & administration have no regard for the US Constituion is that they are FASCISTS who have taken over our government.
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.
Billary isn't innocent here either. She enabled Bush and encouraged the whole torture meme by aligning herself with Karl Rove and other GOP insiders. Billary's corrupt involvement in the Iraq War is one of the most disgusting revelations leaking out little by little. Journalist Matt Drudge has broken several stories on this in the last week.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
As I slide down the banister of Democracy, I will remember the Bush Administration as a splinter up my ass.
jr
· 1 year ago
the unitary executive theorists love their daddy president
kiki
· 1 year ago
None of the laws seems to apply to Bush, proven by the fact that he is still in office. Pelosi is another one. Why is she trying to protect him from impeachment? They are all in it together. Time to clean house!
IMPEACH NOW!
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
brian
· 1 year ago
Yoo, who argues that laws do not apply in a time of war and that the President is above the other two branches o f government, sure did have a problem with Clinton. So basically, he is a fascist. His arguments that Clinton took away rights of citizens while arguing that citizens have no rights during a time of war is purely the work of a lunatic that has no regards to the Constitution. He applauds Bush from pulling away from the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, which makes the world more dangerous now, but scolds Clinton for the laws passed during his time concerning gun control and trying to get the Congress to pass environmental laws. Yoo also applauds Bush for making more documents secret than any other Presidency. He only believes in Democracy when a Authoritarian is in power. A contradiction.
I knew I wouldn't be the only one writing to UC Berkeley - here's what I said:
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!
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Obama has taken the lead in PA according to the PP poll:
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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!
--
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.
.
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.
:)
---
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...