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In a bold attempt to supplant Regent University School of Law as the Shittiest Law School In America™, Chapman University School of Law (home to America’s Worst Law Professor™) extended a visiting professorship to John Yoocandoanythingyoowant.
Here we see Professor Yoo explaining the legal precedent referred to as " The End Justifies The Means":
At a spirited forum Tuesday at the Orange County school, Yoo, who was the author of much of the legal rationale for using waterboarding and other severe interrogation techniques, defended his legal guidance as correct and necessary to protect the nation.
"Three thousand of our fellow citizens had been killed in a deliberate attack by a foreign enemy," Yoo, unruffled by shouts that he is a war criminal and should be in jail, told a packed auditorium on the Orange County campus. "That forced us in the government to have to consider measures to gain information using presidential constitutional provisions to protect the country from further attack."
In a war with a non-state enemy that doesn’t follow international law, getting information from captured combatants is vital, Yoo said, contending that 50% of U.S. intelligence about Al Qaeda was gleaned from interrogations.
"Was it worth it?" he asked, brushing off the reproachful reaction. "We haven’t had an attack in more than seven years."
Q.E.D. Class dismissed.
As for that tenure that UC Berkeley bestowed upon the black-souled monster in quasi-human form, here’s your thank you:
Yoo, 41, alluded to his own uncomfortable situation at the liberal university where he has tenure, thanking the Chapman administration for giving him the opportunity to escape "the jurisdiction of the People’s Republic of Berkeley."
For him it may not be like being waterboarded 183 times in one month, but I take a bit of comfort in knowing that John Yoo will spend the rest of his days being referred to as "that torture guy" and that he will never be able to wash that stain away. I’d take a bit more comfort if he were perp-walked, but I’ll take what I can get…
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I notice how John and his buddies in the government were “forced” to take the actions he tried to legalize. According to them, nothing is ever their own fault — especially when they had good intentions, which I’m told the road to hell is paved with.
They wanted the country & the real estate bubble left intact for Wall St. & the bankers to pillage. Mission Accomplished!
Better he teach at Chapman than don the robes of a Superior Judge like his fellow conspirator Bybee. I give credit to the chimp. He found an amazing array of reptiles, invertebrates, and shit stacks to vandalize DOJ and the constitution.
What I like about that picture of St. John is the ruling class sheen that he’s displaying, secure in that temple of knowledge and waiting for his next chance at the levers of power. The wages of sin are still better than they ought to be.
Wouldn’t want 1/10 of one percent of his karmic baggage. Sold what passed for his soul for not very much. Lunatic fucking loser shitwad. Someone may yet kick the living shit out of him. Obama should be ashamed for walking him.
PS That fucking Berkeley tenured that fucking fuck in the first fucking place tells you fucking volumes about just how fucking liberal Berkeley actually is. Fuck that law school.
Amen, brother, amen. The next time Sean Hannity and his fellow travelers go on about all the commies in SF we can at least use Yoo’s ugly mug on Berkeley’s letterhead to prove him wrong. Not that proving a wingnut wrong changes anything, mind you…
This disgusting little shit must be shunned, prosecuted, convicted, and disbarred. Nothing less will do.
If there were a God, Yoo would burn in hell just for this:
Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty
Cassel: Also no law by Congress – that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.
Yes, it’s people like Yoo that make me wish I still believed in hell.
What? I get no credit for my monthly sacrifice of a bum, whose blood is used (as written in the dark book of Memmos) to paint the altar of the powerful entity, Saylermune, of whom it is written “Her fury is terrible as the toddler’s, and must be appeased.”
ya know, a few weeks ago at dailykos, i wrote about driving John Yoo from berkeley (and really any other city or town where he chose to live and work). You know, pointing him out loudly at the local grocery, photocopying his face on fliers and posting them all over town, calling him out on community forums, etc, just like communities do when sex offenders move in. i was told that this would be illegal and unworkable.
today, i read at TBogg…
… and i can’t help but think that the actions i suggest have been underway for quite some time now. good for berkeley! i hope yoo is tormented for the rest of his life, can’t get work anywhere because of the controversy that follows him, and dies in a gutter somewhere, clutching a bottle of cheap vodka.
“Someone may yet kick the living shit out of him.”
I would hope for something with a bit more firepower than kicking.
Should a shitty and incompetent lawyer teach law?
The question answers itself.
I think that’s attributed to Frankfurter or Brandeis or some other big lawyer/judge dude. Makes sense to me.
Wow. Actual use of the “Anti-Tiger Rock” defense in public.
I’m old enough to remember when having a law degree meant you were at least house-broken.
I can hardly wait until he tells us of the discomfort of standing for war crimes trials and sitting in a tiny jail cell.
What’s truly amazing is we haven’t had an alien attack in the last seven years either!
The power of Yoo is mindboggling.