Posted by Alex Bigman on Thursday, October 01, 2009 08:58 am
We might as well have included a Yoo pun. Berkeley has apparently decided to go where no self-respecting American city has gone before: the United Nations. Yes, our city council decided it was high time we started complying with international human rights treaties and scrounged up some interns to draft a report on the quick. Oh, don’t act so surprised—hey, if you squint real hard, you can almost see secession! And wouldn’t that be rad …
Embarrassingly, there’s a chance Berkeley may not be in compliance with some treaties regarding civil liberties, racial discrimination, and torture—you know, what with our homelessness, school achievement (K-12, we take it …) and recurring man-of-the-hour, John Yoo. We eagerly anticipate the results.
Image Source: epioles under Creative Commons. Berkeley first city to report to UN (CHRON)
Posted by Jill Cowan on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 01:28 am
Yoo can always tell a new school year is nigh when the hordes of protesters start accumulating in the general area of campus. Like the swallows of Capistrano, who return to their nests each year with freakish regularity, read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, July 27, 2009 04:06 pm
Yoo all know all about John Yoo, so this clip of a couple of wily Aussie comedians playing a wittle twick on him during a lecture at Chapman University probably doesn’t need much explanation. Have a look for yoo-rself (yeah, we know that was a stretch) and revel in the awkward. Enjoy!
Chasers War on Everything – Torture John Yoo [YouTube]
Posted by Diana Newby on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:29 pm
John Yoo, lucky duck of a man, can now add the lovely ladies of Code Pink to his ever-expanding fan base. Like so many shameless groupies, the avid activists clamored outside his Berkeley residence early Sunday evening, vying desperately for the law professor’s attention. Haven’t they any dignity?
Okay, so that’s not exactly how it went down, which (transparent sarcasm notwithstanding) read more »
Posted by Diana Newby on Monday, June 15, 2009 10:46 pm
And we’re not the only ones. San Francisco federal judge Jeffrey White rebuked a bid to dismiss Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against the UC Berkeley law professor. The suit holds that Yoo’s torture memos permitted the extreme abuse Padilla allegedly suffered during his long captivity as a prisoner of war. read more »
In solidarity with the former vice president, John Yoo defended the so-called “torture memos” he helped pen a few years ago. We guess it’s another attempt to justify never compromising one’s ideas, even in the face of Armageddon (spoiler alert: not a good idea).
In fact, both the former veep and Yoo are starting to sound awfully similar. From Cheney: read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:11 am
The last we heard, peace had been (um, basically) achieved in the Yoo-niverse. Obama’s tippy-top aide, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had told everyone that the president wanted to let bygones be bygones. And by “bygones,” we obviously mean “torture memos written under the Bush regime” and by “be bygones,” we obviously mean “go unprosecuted.”
But Tuesday, we found out that this was not the case (zing!), though–to be fair–this wasn’t exactly not not the case, either. Before you get your undies in a bundle telling us that makes literally no sense, let us explain. read more »
Posted by Diana Newby on Monday, April 20, 2009 01:24 pm
So, adding to the ranks of officials who are inexplicably siding with John Yoo, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that Obama doesn’t think the UC Berkeley law professor—or any other policymaker from the previous administration—should be prosecuted for enabling torture. read more »
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