They walk among us with contempt for our Democracy. John Yoo

[rhett o rick]

"Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California, ........ counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, wrote this memo promoting presidential power to launch aggressive war, and claimed the power to decree that the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming, and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war, and to announce a new definition of torture limiting it to acts causing intense pain or suffering equivalent to pain associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in loss of significant body functions will likely result. Yoo claimed in 2005 that a president has the right to enhance an interrogation by crushing the testicles of someone's child."
Read more at: http://warisacrime.org/warcriminals

Another thread on John Yoo http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025963760

[grasswire]

1. I wonder if anyone ever discerned if Yoo is/was a Moonie

I remember there being some discussion about that in years past. Of course, Moon called for the destruction of America.

[rhett o rick]

2. Interesting. I hadn't heard that. nm

[L0oniX]

3. I call him John Woo ...because his logic is ...woo.

[Enthusiast]

4. Cheney and Yoo see no value in the Geneva Convention.

They never needed the protection of the Geneva Convention because they were both Chicken Hawks.

[rhett o rick]

5. The wealthy class suffer from "class sociopathy". They don't worry about rights because they

aren't affected. They don't get tortured. They may not want to kill us, but they feel no empathy for us and don't care if we die.

[sabrina 1]

6. An evil man. Truly evil. And if this country doesn't prosecute these criminals

we will never again be able to point fingers, which we hypocritically do regularly, at any other evil torturer.

Our moral authority is gone.