Comments on: The torture memos http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/ In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: joe http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161671 joe Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:06:01 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161671 John Yoo hangs out at the Boalt Hall School of Law University of California Berkeley. Brendan over at brendancalling is trying to singe a few of his tailfeathers. Check out this link and if you can get behind the program, please, pass it on. http://brendancalling.com/2008/04/02/shaming-and-shunning/ I am so sick of these turkeys screwing up my country and walking off smiling. John Yoo hangs out at the Boalt Hall School of Law University of California Berkeley.

Brendan over at brendancalling is trying to singe a few of his tailfeathers. Check out this link and if you can get behind the program, please, pass it on.

http://brendancalling.com/2008/04/02/shaming-and-shunning/

I am so sick of these turkeys screwing up my country and walking off smiling.

]]> By: Miss Sarajevo http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161580 Miss Sarajevo Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:03:22 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161580 As a commenter on another site said<em>: Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to the Hague you go!</em><em> Well, if only.</em> As a commenter on another site said: Hi ho! Hi ho! It’s off to the Hague you go!

Well, if only.

]]> By: FashionablyEvil http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161498 FashionablyEvil Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:43:03 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161498 <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/02/yoo/" rel="nofollow">Glenn Greenwald</a> says what I wanted to say to NPR better than I did: <blockquote>The fact that John Yoo is a Professor of Law at Berkeley and is treated as a respectable, serious expert by our media institutions, reflects the complete destruction over the last eight years of whatever moral authority the United States possessed. Comporting with long-held stereotypes of two-bit tyrannies, we're now a country that literally exempts our highest political officials from the rule of law, and have decided that there should be no consequences when they commit serious felonies.</blockquote> Glenn Greenwald says what I wanted to say to NPR better than I did:

The fact that John Yoo is a Professor of Law at Berkeley and is treated as a respectable, serious expert by our media institutions, reflects the complete destruction over the last eight years of whatever moral authority the United States possessed. Comporting with long-held stereotypes of two-bit tyrannies, we’re now a country that literally exempts our highest political officials from the rule of law, and have decided that there should be no consequences when they commit serious felonies.

]]> By: FashionablyEvil http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161484 FashionablyEvil Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:28:06 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161484 <blockquote>Nice Polite Republicans.</blockquote> I like it!

Nice Polite Republicans.

I like it!

]]> By: Felicia http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161475 Felicia Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:56:40 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161475 I'm always deriding lawyers, to my best friend's behest because he's a lawyer--but this memo makes the American legal system look ridiculous. To find wiggle room around the 5th and 8th Amendments because the detainees are on foreign soil is just absolutely reprehensible. I’m always deriding lawyers, to my best friend’s behest because he’s a lawyer–but this memo makes the American legal system look ridiculous. To find wiggle room around the 5th and 8th Amendments because the detainees are on foreign soil is just absolutely reprehensible.

]]> By: zuzu http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161473 zuzu Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:42:52 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161473 Nice Polite Republicans. Nice Polite Republicans.

]]> By: FashionablyEvil http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161472 FashionablyEvil Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:41:52 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/02/the-torture-memos/#comment-161472 John Yoo was on NPR a few months ago. I had to write a sputtering email to them complaining that they failed to explain that he basically authorized torture. John Yoo was on NPR a few months ago. I had to write a sputtering email to them complaining that they failed to explain that he basically authorized torture.

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