John Yoo: sadistic or insane?
Revelations in the Justice Department’s whitewash of the torture memos offer a frightening glimpse into the mind of John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who, with now judge Jay Bybee and others, gave the Bush administration a license to entertain the darkest fantasies of Dick Cheney. What Yoo believes is not just weird, or scary, or Byzantine. It’s downright un-American. Apparently, Yoo believes that as long as he says the United States is “at war” with some entity — state or non-state, and even without a Constitutional declaration of war by Congress, the president of the United States has it perfectly within his power to:
- Torture a child by having his testacles crushed in front of his parents to get them to talk;
- Order the massacre of a civilian village (meaning the My Lai massacre would have been, in Yoo’s construction, perfectly legal, had it been ordered directly by the president);
- Launch a nuclear attack without the consent of Congress;
And only God knows what else. How is this man being allowed to instruct young would-be lawyers?
Meanwhile, Newsweek’s Michael Issikoff posts about Dick Cheney’s time machine theory of torture and Jose Padilla, and the gruesome new details of Bush-Cheney-era torture contained in that DOJ whitewash report. And what’s scariest about this whole sorry spectacle, is that a majority of so-called “conservatives,” probably agree with John Yoo (so long as the president in question is a Republican.)
Related: Torture and impunity.
WTF Has Barack Obama Done So Far?
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Listen you guys don´t play stupid this guy is called Yoo, O.K, now what shape are his eyes? Now guess his ethnicity, read up what they do in the country/ countries he originates from, my cool guess is it would be China, I am not partisan please check up the Kuo Min Tang or modern China and just put in the keywords the country and the name for the activity the lawyer Yoo advocates and please pack these disgustingly absurd medicalized fantasies of insanity into the waste paper basket where they belong, if 70% of a nation are sadists of course it gets automatically discounted. When they get jaded on bullets they go for ampules, they check out what next they can do to get properly laughing and relaxed like we all like to be
Burt on the other hand Yoo is a lawyer and may be seeing the laws realistically, only I must warn all Presidents that international laws safeguarding humanity, even though war crimes tribunals perhaps can only be set up with US backing to bludgeon Orthodox Christian Slavs who fought desperately while being tortured and murdered elements which made themselves a nest for the budding al-Qaeda, protect minors including from crimes against dignity, which are categorized somewhat laughably as human rights…
Besides who knows if this Yoo does not want the USA to be on the same level as his beloved homeland…Or even does not mind for other reasons that US personnell and administration end up under international indictment?
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