Berkeley vs. John Yoo

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 18, 2009 09:22 AM

The witch hunt continues against Berkeley law professor John Yoo:

Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists.

Campus police arrested at least four people who refused to leave the university’s law school building.

The demonstrators said John Yoo should be dismissed, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes for his work as a Bush administration attorney from 2001 to 2003, when he helped craft legal theories for waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.

Shouting “war criminal,” the protesters confronted Yoo as he entered a lecture hall on the first day of class at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, where the tenured professor is teaching a civil law course this semester…Christopher Edley Jr., Berkeley’s law school dean, has rejected calls to dismiss Yoo, saying the university doesn’t have the resources to investigate his Justice Department work, which involved classified intelligence.

Berkeley law students are divided over Yoo, whose classes are among the law school’s most popular.

As Zombie has reported, the Berkeley extremists have waged a harassment campaign against Yoo for months — staging regular protests at his home.

Waiting for the Etiquette Czars to condemn the Yoo-hunters’ mob tactics…

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  1. #1
    On August 18th, 2009 at 9:32 am, kudafa said:

    If the protesters want to see REAL war criminals, watch the film, “Bravo Two Zero.” True story of British commandos captured by the Iraqis in the Gulf War. What those guys endured makes waterboarding look like High Tea.
    BTW,1st Post Ever!

  2. #2
    On August 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am, ajmontana said:

    Harsh tecniques, give me a break.
    boo freaking hoo.

  3. #3
    On August 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    Intimidation and terror are the tactics the left has used effectively ove rthe years.

    The next few years and decades are going to be pivitol. Do we have the courage and strength to counter these communists and win. It will take much more than simple force to defeat these leftists. They want physical confrontation.

    The way we must defeat them is through our message. Can we find the people who will effectively deliver our message to the broader public in coherent ways.

    We need ideas. And those come through education.

  4. #4
    On August 18th, 2009 at 9:53 am, TigerLady said:

    The way we must defeat them is through our message. Can we find the people who will effectively deliver our message to the broader public in coherent ways.

    Thankfully we don’t have to rely on the State Run Media to get that message out. People like Rush, Mark Levin and others are getting the word out and people are listening. We need to keep the pressure on our elected officials. They may chose to ignore us but to their own peril.

  5. #5
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:04 am, no2pcbs1 said:

    the anti war cowards are miserable creatures, who on their own have no chance of ever being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men and women.

  6. #6
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:07 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Gorman: [Calling Apone over the radio] Look, uh, Apone.
    [Apone snaps his fingers]
    Gorman: Look, we can’t have any firing in there. I, uh, I want you to collect magazines from everybody.
    Hudson: Is he f@#$%n’ crazy?
    Frost: What do you expect us to use man, harsh language?

  7. #7
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am, zyzzyg said:

    Yep, it is in extremely bad form to interrupt the classes that Yoo is conducting.

    The students are paying for a service and they are unable to recieve it. Were I a student in that particular class, I would consider court action. There is also trespassing that can result in court action.

    It very well might be cute and funny the first time, but the disruptions would stop after those people suffer the consequences of their actions.

  8. #8
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:14 am, spaceycakes said:

    Hicks (pulling out his pump-action shotgun): I keep this for close encounters.
    Frost: I heard that.

  9. #9
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:22 am, Ragspierre said:

    Berkeley law students are divided over Yoo, whose classes are among the law school’s most popular.

    Hmmm….

    Sounds like the market speaking. Young people lining up to take classes from Yoo.

    That’s gotta sting those collectivists howling for his head…!!!!

  10. #10
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:32 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Berkeley law students are divided over Yoo, whose classes are among the law school’s most popular.

    Let this NOT be a repeat of the 60s when the Left went wilding and rest did noting. Come on, kick their sissy butts and kick them when they are down and then do it again :)

    That’s gotta sting those collectivists howling for his head…!!!!

    See above.
    Ra Ra Re, kick them in the knee
    Ra Ra Ras, kick them in the other knee :evil:

  11. #11
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:34 am, DesertLover said:

    For those of us that went places during the Viet Nam war (and other wars) that “officially” the US military never went we endured worse things in the Jungle Survival training and POW training we endured before ever going to the war zone.

    The so called “torture” the leftist cowards are so upset about is strictly a bunch of BS when compared to what American prisoners have always had to endure in time of war.

    Where is the outrage from these yellow-bellied pukes over the torture and beheadings being perpetrated regularly by Al Qaeda and the Taliban?

  12. #12
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:39 am, cheapseat said:

    disrupters, i don’t see no stinking disrupters. code crazy is just expressing their right to peaceful assembly and free speech. jonathen alter would call them crazy, obama and pelosi and klein and durbin and shumer and npr and mo dowd and the boston globe, and the new york times and the atlanta constitution and the la times and perky little katie and nbc and olbermaddow and cnn and the post dispatch and we didn’t even get to nazis or mccarthyites or fringe lunatics. WHO SAYS YOU LITTLE PEOPLE DON’T HAVE FREE SPEECH!

  13. #13
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:42 am, Jet Jaguar said:

    O/T but had to share this.

  14. #14
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:52 am, scituate_tgr said:

    DesertLover said: Where is the outrage from these yellow-bellied pukes over the torture and beheadings being perpetrated regularly by Al Qaeda and the Taliban?

    One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

  15. #15
    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am, Mister P said:

    There are times when I favor the return of the draft. Time these guys discovered that the world has some bad people.

  16. #16
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am, Gorebot said:

    I’m learning so much from these L’il Darlin’s.

    For example, today I learned from them that deranged, apoplectic militancy is A-Okay, just as long as it’s the right KIND of militancy!

    /Sarcasm off.

    PS: Kudos to no2pcbs1 in post # 5, who really got it right.

  17. #17
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am, Jet Jaguar said:

    Cue the Justice Brothers in 3 …2 …1

  18. #18
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:05 am, Jet Jaguar said:

    Wrong thread. Sry

  19. #19
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:06 am, Atlanta Media Guy said:

    I hope this crap is building some backbone into the GOP. When we get back into power we need to investigate every single czar and Obamabot. I know we’re suppose to turn the other cheek…. Bush did and it got him no where!

    Obama “green” czar heading up a boycott of advertisers of Beck’s Show, for speaking truths and his free speech. Anti-war protesters going after a popular Professor for his opinions. Compiling lists of people who do not agree with their “liberal policies”. Everything you are seeing today with this administration is 100 times worse than what these leftist goons were accusing the Bush administration of doing. What’s happened to freedom of expression and speech?

  20. #20
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:06 am, dan708 said:

    So Mr. Yoo co-wrote some legal documents – and the peaceniks want to destroy this guy? Sometimes actions speak louder than words, Code Pinkos.

  21. #21
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    The man is an idiot – he needs to move to Texas or Arizona

  22. #22
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am, docflash said:

    They are just reliving the Woodstock days.Let them be misreable in their own juices.They probably took the brown acid.

  23. #23
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am, txvet2 said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    The man is an idiot – he needs to move to Texas or Arizona

    Just as long as you don’t.

  24. #24
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:23 am, txvet2 said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    Those idiots at Toyota are taking your advice. They’re closing their California plant and moving Tacoma production to San Antonio.

  25. #25
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am, Salt said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:12 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    The man is an idiot – he needs to move to Texas or Arizona

    So, you don’t love the whole country, just 48 states? What else doesn’t make your idiotic list?

  26. #26
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am, akoypinoy said:

    Don’t know if this is OT but I thought this will help us understand their tactics.

    http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm

  27. #27
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am, DesertLover said:

    Mister P …

    Agreed … they’d also have to learn to get along with others that don’t come from the same background …

    I have long said much of the gang and ethnic-centric BS we hear about, especially in the large cities, is a direct cause and effect problem that is propagated generation to generation by a feeling of despair that is prevalent in those neighborhoods …

  28. #28
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Mister P said:

    I have long said much of the gang and ethnic-centric BS we hear about, especially in the large cities, is a direct cause and effect problem that is propagated generation to generation by a feeling of despair that is prevalent in those neighborhoods …

    I am not sure what you mean here, coming myself from the south side of Chicago.
    One of those gangs, the Irish Athletic Club produced Mayor Daley and his corrupt henchman. I went to school with the Blackstone Rangers and the Englewood gang.
    My high school had 6 cops assigned to it as their beat. I would blame the public schools. My high school had a 65 percent drop out rate.
    Also so many kids had no father. No doubt growing up in the projects on the public dole can create some dispair.
    Same with dealing with a corrupt police department.

  29. #29
    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:54 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    Hey txvet2

    Good reply – clever & funny – nice work.

  30. #30
    On August 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    Let’s make a deal. Yoo and Alinsky step down together.

  31. #31
    On August 18th, 2009 at 12:24 pm, txvet2 said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 11:54 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    Which brings up another point – have you ever in all of your wanderings ever seen a thread in DU, Kos, or even Huffpo that contains as much actual thought as the average thread here?

  32. #32
    On August 18th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, Kalifornia Kafir said:

    I walked past this so-called “protest” on my way home last night. It consisted mostly of Code Pinko grannies in neon pink tee shirts singing and mouthing off for the TV cameras. As far as Berkeley protests go, this one could be described as Snoozers for Losers.

  33. #33
    On August 18th, 2009 at 1:09 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ilovemycount said: how come there are 3 holes in a blow up doll?

  34. #34
    On August 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, Regulus said:

    Waiting for the Etiquette Czars to condemn the Yoo-hunters’ mob tactics…

    – You’re not holding your breath, are you?

  35. #35
    On August 18th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am, Mister P said:

    There are times when I favor the return of the draft. Time these guys discovered that the world has some bad people.

    And one of those bad people is Jimmy Carter who pardoned the draft dodgers and deserters of the Viet Nam era. To my mind that one single slap at any and all who served honorably ended this nation’s right to draft for anything short of continental defense.

    We have plenty of enemies right here we need to deal with such as the Yoo-hunters.

  36. #36
    On August 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, spaceycakes said:

    OT, but I wonder how Bela Pelosi explains this?

  37. #37
    On August 18th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, right_on said:

    Shouting “war criminal,”

    How about a counter-protest where attendees shout at the liberal hippies…“Peace Criminal!!!”

    What is a “peace criminal?” It is one, usually from the left of the political spectrum, who ignores true evil against mankind, and does everything to de-fang military deterrence.

    Their actions, or lack thereof, costs thousands of unnecessary military deaths. They divert expendituresfor “social programs,” that would normally go to insure military modernization, and superiority. Much of this materiel is protective or preemptive in nature. They also suffer from an absence of effective political leadership, which, in the long run, makes America look weak, or spineless.

  38. #38
    On August 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On August 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, spaceycakes said:

    OT, but I wonder how Bela Pelosi explains this?

    (bemoaned the seemingly unyielding gap in scores between white or Asian students and their black or Hispanic peers)

    Some will tell you it is the Bell Curve, others blame racism. Being a Bitter American might I suggest the work ethic which you should have developed BEFORE the schools try to destroy it in the name of Self Esteem. I was always of the retrograde opinion that Self Esteem was something achieved by working hard and doing well.

    As hard as our life was at times school work always came first-even a couple of field workers could see that was the way up and out. “So some damn fool calls you a dirty name–that is no reason not to do well-work harder”. But my parents were retrogrades. Retrogrades Rock ;)

  39. #39
    On August 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm, spaceycakes said:

    AzN–school types have been trying for years to bring that gap closer together by doing the wrong thing: putting low-achieving students in with the high-achieving students & thinking it’ll rub off. The only thing it does is to lower the higher-achieving students’ standards. G-d forbid the teachers actually try to do some work.

  40. #40
    On August 18th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Yoo should make the university hire some big, expensive body guards, then put the cost on the student’s tuition bill, with a full explanation of why it is necessary.

    Enough one way “free” speech on college campuses!

  41. #41
    On August 18th, 2009 at 7:27 pm, right_on said:

    Yoo should make the university hire some big, expensive body guards, then put the cost on the student’s tuition bill, with a full explanation of why it is necessary.

    Great idea! I wonder…do you think the New Black Panther Party would be interested in making a few bucks for their services? They provided protection for “The Gloved One.”

  42. #42
    On August 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am, Politicalguano said:

    Yoo needs to file civil rights complaints against the university for allowing a hostile work environment as well as the same for the so called “protestors.” I would be videotaping any protest outside the home and any threat would result in legal and civil charges, restraint orders, and if the protestors are students, taking action to have them expelled. Best defense is a good offense.
    Also he should get a bunch of guns and a carry permit. Obtain a trained attack dog for home, and tear up his sidewalk for “repairs” and install a posted no trespassing sign. At least it would keep them further away from his home. If possible, a fence is also nice.
    File complaint with Justice Department if Berkley police do not follow the law in protecting him. File lawsuits against each protestor. Start a website with detailed info on each protestor, with video of them acting badly, so that future potential employers can see what they are getting. HA HA assist them in ruining their lives.

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