Anti-Torture Protest at the Inquirer This Afternoon (Philly Weekly)

[struggle4progress]

By PW Staff
Posted May. 28, 2009

Phawker has the goods:

In Philadelphia, protestors will hold a press conference and waterboarding reinactment to call for the firing, disbarment, and prosecution of torture lawyer John Yoo in front of the Philadelphia Inquirer, where Yoo currently writes the monthly column Closing Arguments. In a series of now infamous memos while at the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo authorized the use of torture laid the groundwork for the wholesale and systematic torture of detainees, which to date has not been thoroughly repudiated. John Yoo insisted, “In the exercise of his plenary power to use military force, the President’s decisions are for him alone and are un-reviewable" ...

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/phillynow/Anti-Torture-Protest-at-the-Inquirer-This-Afternoon-46361997.html
http://www.phawker.com/2009/05/27/early-word-stop-the-death-star-i-wanna-get-off/

[lbrtbell]

1. Fuck Yoo!

Pun intended, with no amusement intended. Why the Inquirer ever hired that evil creature is beyond me.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Why they hired him: because Mumia was too unpopular

The Inqy was recently bought by a local real estate magnate with a long history of "activism" in the Republican Party.

--d!