Um, they hate us for our freedom? or

Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children
Posted: 01/09
From: revcom.us



By Philip Watts

01/08/06 "revcom.us" -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.

This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.

What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy. As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.

It has now come out Yoo also had a hand in providing legal reasoning for the President to conduct unauthorized wiretaps of U.S. citizens. Georgetown Law Professor David Cole wrote, "Few lawyers have had more influence on President Bush’s legal policies in the 'war on terror’ than John Yoo."

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I don't like * but this seems a bit extreme that he would allow this. The fact that any President could do this is creepy.

I doubt they really argue that the president should be crushing kids testicles - but once you say "Well the president doesn't have the right to do that," then you have created a limit to the Presidents authority. If it's not okay to do that to a kid, why is it okay to do that to an adult.

I'd like double confirmation of this story; but it is plausible.

Bryant
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Except our compasionate conservatives.

The crushing our children's testicles must be their answer to taking away our productive rights. :sarcasm: Which they are hell bound to do. :kick: