WeAreChange RI, Boston Confront John Yoo
mark Sun, 03/01/2009 - 1:55am
WeAreChange RI, Boston Confront John Yoo
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John Yoo
This man has no conscience. He has clearly advocated the torture of children in the name of Empire. There is no defense for espousing such barbarism.
What gets me the most about these WAC videos, and all confrontation videos, isn't the liar being publicly called out for his or her crimes. It's the sycophantic audience fawning over these sociopaths as if they contribute anything progressive to our shared society - that goes for audience and John Yoo alike in this case. Disgusting.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
John Yoo, justifying child torture:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-07-03/news/architect-of-torture/
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 [that went to the president]."
Yoo: "I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that."
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Keep in mind that most of
Keep in mind that most of the time at events like these the audience is not just some random passers-by, they are a narrowly selected slice of the society.
My guess would be that in the streets of most towns here in the Northeast Mr Yoo would have been received in a less-than-friendly fashion.
Boris Epstein
Great job, Mark!
Which event was this? Where was he speaking?
Boris Epstein
this was at Brown Univ. in R.I.
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