Protest draws dozens at UC Berkeley for John Yoo's first day of classes

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:




August 17th, 2010 1:45 PM
Protest draws dozens at UC Berkeley for John Yoo's first day of classes

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By Sean Maher / Oakland Tribune


BERKELEY -- Protesters gathered at the opening of classes Monday to protest the school's continued employment of John Yoo, a UC Berkeley professor who gave legal sanction to the Bush administration's views on torture.

Between 70 and 80 people gathered near the Boalt Hall School of Law around noon and, after a series of speakers discussed torture from a number of perspectives, dipped their hands in red paint and marched into a classroom where they believed Yoo to be teaching this semester, organizer Linda Jacobs said.

Yoo was not in the classroom, so the group continued on to the dean's office and demanded to speak with him, Jacobs said. Police at the scene declared the group an unlawful assembly, at which point the protesters walked back outside, Jacobs said.

"There was a very heavy police presence, but no arrests," Jacobs said.

Speakers throughout the demonstration discussed historical and legal issues relating to torture, and one second-year law student "talked about shame of being a Boalt Hall student while a war criminal is teaching Constitutional Law," Jacobs said.

The Boalt Hall School of Law class schedule lists courses, such as constitutional law, to be taught by John Yoo. The protesters challenged Yoo's presence on campus because of legal memos he wrote that were instrumental in the development of military and CIA interrogation techniques that some consider to be torture.

Yoo has said that the Bush administration did not authorize torture and that he did not consider waterboarding torture. ...............(more)

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[JuniperLea]

1. Fuck you, unrecer...

Just fuck you... what an asshat... I'm so sick of this crap!

This is a man who... fuck it... jeebus I'm in the wrong place.

[mmonk]

2. Must have been one of the "move forward" people.

[JuniperLea]

3. The stupid is getting so much more painful these days...

I just don't get it. I really don't.