[Cvillemedia] Yoo at UVA

[David Swanson]

*John Yoo at UVA*

Noted war criminal and torture lawyer John Yoo is scheduled to speak at 
UVA law school on March 19, 2010,
http://uvafederalist.org/events.htm

The day we go into year eight in the illegal occupation of Iraq that Yoo 
and Jay Bybee provided "legal" justification 
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48262> for, this "legalizer" of 
torture and other war crimes will be speaking at a law school, our law 
school, in our town.

John Yoo is a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, 
California.  I've joined in protests at his home at 1241 Grizzly Peak 
Blvd., Berkeley.

He is a lawyer with the Pennsylvania bar from which he should be 
disbarred and would be if enough people demanded it 
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/39412>.  Support: 
DisbarTortureLawyers.org <http://DisbarTortureLawyers.org>

Yoo counseled the White House on how to get away with 
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33385> war crimes, wrote this 
memo <http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/warpowers925.htm> 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 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 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt1-eWU2Ii0>.

Yoo has been confronted in his classroom: video 
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44556>, and again confronted in 
the classroom <http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/45265>.

He should not imagine he can seek shelter from protests of his open 
criminality by coming to lecture at the University of Virginia.

Yoo this week told the New York Times 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03fob-q4-t.html?hp> that he 
had worked, not for the law, but for his "client" the president, and 
that he had *no regrets* about pretending to legalize torture.

*Let's change that.*

___

PS: The next day, March 20, I'll be speaking on a panel at the Va 
Festival of the Book.

-- 

David Swanson is the author of the new book "Daybreak: Undoing the 
Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories 
Press.  You can order it and find out when tour will be in your town: 
http://davidswanson.org/book. 

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