Students Protest Torture Memo Professor

(AP)  Police have arrested at least four people during a protest at the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Campus police made the arrests as protesters gathered Monday outside the UC Berkeley School of Law to call for the dismissal of John Yoo.

He's scheduled to resume teaching there after spending the spring semester at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County.

The arrests came after police asked the protesters to leave.

Yoo worked for the Bush administration from 2001 to 2003, when he helped craft legal theories for waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.

The tenured professor has defended the controversial techniques, saying they were needed to protect the country from terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

[licht1]

Where are those John Yoo protesters who got arrested?

We want them accounted for!

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/john-yoo-protesters-arrested-sent-to-gitmo/

[thebob-bob]

His continue tenure at UC Berkeley is shameful. A President is NOT all powerful. If conservatives really thought about it for more than a reactionary second, they'd see how dangerous it really is.

[TheMasses2016]

Waterboarding is fine.
It saves lives.
It's only the sissy, tree-hugging, liberal, anti-American gay-lovers who think otherwise.
Survival of the fittest will eventually take care of them.
They will sooner or later die off or become slaves.

How about them Redskins!

[endurorob]

johnbrown8888 August 18, 2009 7:47 AM EDT
"Speak your personal and political beliefs"? Is that what Yoo was doing.

Sure looks like he was formulating policy that justified government ignoring the Constitution.

But that wouldn't both Rightie Repigs or Limboogers, would it?

They hate freedom.



He created a legal opinion d.u.m.b.a.s.s. It is an opinion. It was the choice of the administration to act on it. And who are you to say that opinion is wrong. Not everyone believes waterboarding to be torture.

[timothyjo]

I could see him working as grounds keeper or janitors helper, but this sicko got the law all wrong as we do know now ,How can he teach? shame on university!! thank god we have students who stand for what is right

[cranialnerves]

Boy, the AM radio hags are out this morning.

[omnibus66]

What would the students learn from this excuse for a human being?

The Constitution is just a GD piece of paper?
Torture is legal, as long as it is us doing it?
Warrentless wiretapping is OK, as long as it is kept secret?

More unflushed excrement from the Bush/Cheney years.

[endurorob]

Typical far left nut jobs. The man states a legal opinion and they want him fired. It's O.K. to speak your personal and political beliefs as long as it is in line with the lefties otherwise you need to be quiet.

[johnbrown8888]

"Speak your personal and political beliefs"? Is that what Yoo was doing.

Sure looks like he was formulating policy that justified government ignoring the Constitution.

But that wouldn't both Rightie Repigs or Limboogers, would it?

They hate freedom.

[aarroozz]

"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- 1776

[ReallyMeanIt]

My grandfather served in the U.S. Army during WW II. Near the end of the war, his platoon along with the British army arrived at a death camp at Bergen-Belsen. The soldiers were horrified at what they saw and one of the men capture a suspected guard from the town near by. He was harshly interogated but wouldn't reveal where his comrades went to hide. So they took him to one of the camp ovens, threw him in and told him he's going to die. He then cried like a baby and spill all that he knows and the Army was able to capture most of the guards to bring them to justice.
If it happens today and the libs got their way, all these brave men would be in jail instead of in a victory parade in Paris.
Lib are cowards who hides behind their "morality". Glad not a lot of them was around in WW II to help the Nazi.

[johnbrown8888]

It's actually the Repig Neocons who are like the Nazis who burned anyone they disagreed with in the ovens.

And of course it was the Righties of the day who opposed US entry into WW2. It was that terrible "liberal" FDR who got us in.

Too bad Repig shills like "reallymeanit" are both ignorant and stupid. There's a cure for ignorance. There's no cure for stupid.

[ReallyMeanIt]

taebok, we see the diffence just fine. Save the pity for your ignorant closed minded ways.

johnbrown8888, the libs would burned and bomb anyone they disagreed with. Your buddy ayers can tell you that and he's a professor teaching kids his own brand of "the oven". We hope there is a cure for ignorant and stupidity for you.