John Yoo Explains How To Get To His Secret Law Class
This is a fine how-do-you-do. John Yoo's spring California Constitution class at Berkeley doesn't give a location on the roster. Because, you know, too much ruckus about how he should be prosecuted by people who think he gave a legal workaround for government torture. Yoo wrote to Above the Law, explaining the private address: "The location of the class, of course, is available to the students who want to take it. If the protesters want to go, they could always apply for admission as 1Ls and pay the full tuition like everyone else. They will find that it is harder to compete for admission with our smart and accomplished students than it is to make a ruckus." Oh I see.
UGH is right. On the bright side, he seems to be losing some weight. California livin', I guess. Or the demons eating him from the inside.
I'm rooting for the demons.
Also, picketing Yoo's office makes things hard for faculty rather than students, which is always more effective and popular.
Assuming Yoo's office isn't in an aluminum shed next to North Field.
Also, also; David Lat faintly smells of douche.
Kissinger just schooled whoever showed up. The young ARE soft.
John Yoo could be brought up on federal charges of suborning torture and conspiracy to commit torture at any time, depending on how much of a pussy Barack Obama and Eric Holder want to be. I'm not sure Federal Marshals will be as precious about Yoo's coy classroom locations as his students are.
Prosecuting the lawyers seems like the wrong scapegoat, doesn't it? Unless he could be flipped as a cooperating witness against Rumsfeld or Cheeney, which would be AWESOME.
One surprising turn of events from the Bush Administration was that John Ashcroft (!) was the only cabinet member with the ballsack strong enough to say "NO" to the madness. If you had told me that in 2001, I would have laughed and laughed.
Look for a faculty office door with this sign:
____YOO, JOHN____
_OFFICE HOURS BY_
__EXTRAORDINARY__
____RENDITION____
Sheesh.
Just look for a huge flock of white doves.
Oh, John Yoo.
*thundering applause*
Does he mean to imply that not a single student of the Berkeley Law School would protest?
Or is this a clumsy insult, as though all protesters were stupid and unaccomplished?
Clumsy? Entirely unfair and sorta infuriating, maybe, but that'd be half the intent. It's a pretty good insult, in my book.