John C. Yoo: “The Most Dangerous Man in America?”

Posted on April 4, 2008
Filed Under Journalism, News, Politics, commentary |

John C. Yooshould not be teaching in American schools. Period. That’s a strong statement, but Yoo’s case is so extraordinary that it is clear that the now California law professor  was and is a threat to the very fabric of American democracy and ought to be sacked, academic freedom not withstanding.

Yoo is the “brain” behind several memos in October 2001 that claimed that when fighting terrorism inside the United States, the military is not limited by Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

At the time, Yoo was a high ranking and influential deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

As the Washington Post points out, Yoo “wrote or co-wrote many of the key legal opinions that asserted an expansive view of presidential power in the Bush administration’s early years. 

Yoo defends his memos saying politics is behind criticism against him.

No, Yoo. The criticism, rightly so, is aimed at you and your memos because they, and YOU, are the antithesis of all that America is supposed to stand for.

You can call yourself a lawyer, a professor, a former government official…whatever. What you actually are is a fascist, plain and simple.

And, while the concept of academic freedom at American universities is supposed to protect even the wildest opinions from even the most idiotic professors, your views are so at odds with what this country is about that you ought not to be allowed to stand before law students and teach them. 

Teach them what?

One can only wonder what it is You, Yoo, teach these students? How to subvert the Constitution? How to stage a military coup within the United States? How to turn an elected president into a virtual dictator?

Or, perhaps, you teach your students how it is cool for the U.S. to torture people suspected of being terrorists, or associating with suspected terrorists or even once having ridden on a bus, perhaps, next to a suspected terrorist?

After all, you are the evil mastermind behind the memos that basically gave the U.S. government the green light to do what it takes, no matter what, to extract information from people using techniques that belong in third world countries or the 15th century.

That a California university continues to give you employment is embarrassing; that you continue to teach students is criminal; that your perverted and wrong views of U.S. Constitutional law live on after your exit from the Justice Department is a shame.

Yo, Yoo. Go!

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One Response to “John C. Yoo: “The Most Dangerous Man in America?””

  1. Joe Bigby on April 6th, 2008 12:27 pm

    The torture memos were not all Yoo was engaged in to subvert the Constitution. He specifically declared 9/11 as an act of war, thus freeing the event from criminal investigation. This is obstruction of justice. He then violated the very rules of war by violating the Geneva Conventions Article 3 that specifically protects ANYONE from abusive treatment, i.e. Torture. John C. Yoo needs to face criminal charges as well as charges of Treason and War Crimes!

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