John Yoo's Law Lecture at Berkeley Interrupted

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Run time: 01:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLr_VyIwGTQ   Posted on YouTube: July 20, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 20, 2009 By DU Member: HamiltonHabs32 Views on DU: 6656

 
From the Idiocracy Index

[MrsBrady]

1. k&r n/t

[Aum123]

2. That freaked him out

[JohnyCanuck]

3. K&R

[TaffyMoon]

4. Priceless!

He will be the only one who goes down. He deserves it, but let's face it, he's gonna be the fall guy.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. I like their style

Stay in their MFing faces!

[Hubert Flottz]

6. K&R

Haunted...I love it.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. John Yoo was a law clerk

to Clarence Thomas, the most underqualified Supreme Court Justice in US history. I may be mistaken, but I believe that I remember Yoo acting as a commentator on one of the cable networks (likely Faux) during the stolen election of 2000 and the arguments and deliberations in Bush v. Gore.
It is sad that he sold his soul to the neocon Rethugs. His story could otherwise have been an inspiration for other Asian immigrants. Of course, his neocon "friends" will be most happy to let him take the fall. But when one deliberately chooses the Dark Side, and thereafter wholeheartedly embraces it as Yoo has, I have no sympathy or compassion for that person. What surprised me is that Yoo's Wiki bio says that he is married to the daughter of Peter Arnett, and I have always admired Peter Arnett. Elsa must not have the integrity of her father.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo

[disndat]

12. also clerked for Sandra Day O'Connor

He was on the PBS Lehrer Hour arguing the O'Connor should vote for Bush, days before the Gore V. Bush decision.
I am not sure if he actively was clerking for O'Connor at that time.

[howmad1]

26. Oh, wasn't she the bitch.......

....that gave us GW Bush for Prez?

[Grinchie]

21. Don't forget, Clarence Thomas is Monsanto product.

And Now, Monsanto stooge, Michael Taylor is back once again into the USDA, thanks to the Obama/DLC Corporate goon squad.

[truedelphi]

29. Scary times we live in. On the bright side,

My household has had its unemployment bennies extended.

Too bad there may never be jobs to go back to, unless I give up and start working for Monsanto.

[Uncle Joe]

28. I view the dysfunctional power relationship of Addington/Yoo in the same light as Cheney/Bush.

With the "men" of higher position holding less real power and this was the deliberate setup from the get go.

[aquart]

40. And if we don't put them in jail will we see them again like Cheney and Rumsfeld?

[Uncle Joe]

54. I totally agree, aquart. n/t

[Senator]

8. It's only fair. He interrupted our Constitution.

And since our Constitution is a contract (breached 1/6/01), and he went through mental/legal gymnastics to write his fig-leaf memo, and it ultimately resulted (as intended) in violating our treaty obligations...

...his actions were simultaneously tortious, tortuous, and torturous.

They should force him to teach the meanings -- to his fellow prisoners.

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[Lerkfish]

9. I love when he said he wasn't "comfortable" and that the person "put THEMSELVES in that position"

cockroaches run when the light is turned on.


I also love how security runs THEM out, but not the war criminal at the front of the class.

[ro1942]

10. thanks

enjoyed that thanks for posting

[tomm2thumbs]

11. K&R - that's gonna be shown worldwide! Lmao!!!

Maybe he shouldn't be teaching something he obviously knows little about - the Constitution.

[otohara]

13. Was The Class Clapping

in support of protester or glad that he was escorted out of the class?

I think they were glad to see him go - so professor Yoo Suck could get on with what ever he teaches.

After all they paid good money to take a class from this pig.

[HughBeaumont]

33. In support of the professor.

I dunno, I guess this ain't the same Berkeley from the 60s. Now loaded with torture-lovin' Bewsh-oles.

[targetpractice]

36. The studio audience was clapping and laughing.n/t

[The Blue Flower]

14. He ran and hid behind someone's skirts

Cowardice is the primary quality that defines that bunch. Greed comes in second by a hair.

[cascadiance]

16. So would Yoo call this act "torture", or an "enhanced interrogation technique"?

[LoZoccolo]

15. Recommended for the lulz. n/t

[bc3000]

17. Hilarious

[beac]

18. Nice to see Yoo squirming. He'd better get used to it. n/t

[Grinchie]

19. Just like all other Chickenhawks -- Runs to his Mommy to protect him

Can't stand up to them like a man, but has to go get the Fascist, Authority Inflated school marm to eject the student that was using in class theatre to demonstrate a point.

Mommy, their making fun of my decisions, Wahhh!

[ColbertWatcher]

20. LOL! k+r for the Chaser's! n/t

[libodem]

22. Frankly, I can not believe, Yoo

has not been disbarred.

[truedelphi]

30. And it is very sick that Berkeley would have Yoo come on campus to

Teach.

This guy is one of the truly evil men. Any human being who can sit at their desk, day in and day out, designing memos regarding whether breaking a prisoner's arm in this fashion might not be torture, but breaking it in this other manner would be, and on and on, describing graphic detail "rich" descriptions of how to do what to whom, this person needs to be either in a mental ward, or in jail.

And the fact that he thought this stunt something to self-righteously smile over gave me the chills.

[GivePeaceAchance]

23. That was wonderfully funny. :)

[omega minimo]

24. "Non enhanced interrogation victims must leave NOW!!"

[Duval]

25. K&R n/t

[newtothegame]

27. So he got to leave early and got paid for basically doing nothing? n/t

[meuniermr]

47. We don't know what time this was

It could have been 10 minutes before the end of the period.

[Confusious]

31. What was he teaching?

How to justify anything using the law?

[harun]

43. Fascism.

[mrbarber]

32. Get your fucking hands off him.

You deserve all the shame that working with a sadistic torturing war criminal should bring you.

[DRoseDARs]

34. If someone had landed a blow from a sledgehammer to his testicles, it would be legal. And ironic.

Mmmmm, tastes like Law of Unintended Consequences.

[MrMickeysMom]

35. Hey, can we schedule one of these interrupters per week?

Next, you could have older generations of ladies pull out pitchers of water and an ironing board...

:headbang:

[leftinportland]

37. Yoo has been a guest lecturer at

Chapman University located in Orange California during Fall and Spring 2008-09. He currently is not teaching at UC Berkeley. He'll teach one course in Fall 2009 at Berkeley. It really doesn't matter but I believe this clip was shot at Chapman and not UC.

[burning rain]

38. Yoo at Berkeley.

That's moxie or madness. Them Berkeley lefties gonna pick his bones clean.

[blogslut]

39. Why did he cancel the class?

Was he afraid of the questions his paying students would ask him afterward? Was this lecture a one-time deal or will he have to reschedule or resume? It would be interesting to know if he'll be too skeered to face those students gain.

[scentopine]

41. "I'd love to move, but every time I do my balls get buzzed..."

Priceless. More dems need to speak out like this.

John Yoo works for Phila. Inquirer Newspaper. Drop them a line and let them know you can see the blood splatter across their editorial pages every time John Yoo tortures us with his pompous and stilted commentary.

[omega minimo]

42. Yoo's safe word is "MOMMY!!"

Slimeball

[jgraz]

44. That's my neighbor!

Asshole lives about 200 yards from my from door.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. From Feingold as a neighbor to Yoo...what a comedown.

Has the value of the neighborhood dropped?
Do the neighbors picket him?

[jgraz]

55. There was a protest a few weeks ago.

I got stuck in the South Bay at a bird adoption fair. By the time I got back, the protest was over.

We've discussed some possibilities for making his life a bit more unpleasant. Nothing illegal, just ways to show him we don't like him in our town.

[Enthusiast]

46. One more time.

Why did we hate the Nazis? Because they wore different helmets than we did? Because they marched funny? Because they had an abiding love of malted grain beverages, as I do? Because they spoke German, like my ancestors? No, we could forgive all this. We hated them for their cruelty. Because they tortured. Because they violated the Geneva Convention. Just sayin'.

[mackerel]

48. Interesting how the students in class could give a toss.

[autorank]

49. k*r These guys are GREAT

That stupid 'official' should resign immediately and Yoo belongs on trial, everywhere there are courts of
competent jurisdiction.

[pam4water]

50. Why is he lecturing at Berkeley? He has nothing to teach anyone!

[bjobotts]

51. Yoo should be afraid.Responsible for justifying and 'enhancing' a torture regime

[bjobotts]

52. Thousands of victims including women and children...He should be in prison not teaching

[RandomThoughts]

53. What type of person would want to learn from him?

There is a bigger problem there, a much bigger problem. Not why is he teaching, but who and why are people in the class?

Do the students and administration know what was done?

If they do, are they complicit by treating him as a teacher?

(Note that 'innocent before proven guilty' does not apply in a nation with no laws in effect due to lack of enforcement, so that reasoning does not hold or is not logical for actions of individual when dealing with people not prosecuted for political or social favoritism reason.)