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According to a memo sent to Before It’s News reporter Deborah Dupré, University of California is harboring one of the world’s most wanted war criminals, an issue about to explode Saturday during the commencement ceremony for the 2014 graduating class of Berkeley Law. The planned event is due to draw nationwide attention – provided corporate-government’s mainstream media does not censor it. 

 

Lawyer John Yoo is an unindicted war criminal due to his crucial legal role in the Bush-Cheney administration’s torture policies and program and Obama’s continuing the legacy. Yoo, however, roams freely with impunity, even remaining a tenured UC Berkeley Law professor.

Yoo has been a “wanted man” for authoring the torture memo and for his role in an illegal war against Iraq, paving the way for the United States to become a bona fide rogue nation by illegally torturing prisoners of war, claiming it is legal and justified. Yoo’s stand on torture has made the United States less safe, targeted more by terrorists, and it puts US troops at a higher risk, according to researchers.

 

John YooJay Bybee and others among the top fifty United States war criminals are not off the hook just because part of heads of high-level corruption says so, according to War Is A Lie author David Swanson, writing about a peaceful mass mobilization to hold fascist, human rights violating, war criminals accountable. ((Video) 50 U.S. war criminals not off hook – Cheney’s war crime confession helps prosecute, Dupré, 2010)

 

“John Yoo is a war criminal, responsible for an illegal Iraqi war which killed one million people, 500,000 of them children, and left 4.5-5 million children orphans, 500,000 of which are homeless,” Orange County resident Sharon Tipton asserted in 2010. 

[Also see: We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipton, 2009]

 

Tipton had been leading a campaign and protest earlier known as Bye-bye Bybee, against Jay S. Bybee’s continued position as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth. Bybee, known as a ‘Torture Judge,’ became better known after the Americans Civil Liberties Union sued for the torture memos’ release and Bybee was exposed as author of them. Bybee’s former deputy was John Yoo.

 

“Over a million Iraqis lie dead…. try to focus on the fact that [John Yoo and Jay Bybee] are conspirators in the supreme crime of war.” (David Swanson, Yoo, Bybee and Disinformation, Afterdowningstreet.org, Feb. 21, 2010)  Furthermore, few of more than 60,000 kidnapped and tortured in secret prisons people, primarily people of color, were guilty of any crime. 

 

[Read: Muslims Did 911, Islam Out To Destroy Americans, So Torture Them ‘Nonsense’]

 

Since 2010, human rights groups have protested Yoo’s freedom. Yoo protests have been supported by many of the nation’s largest non-government peace and justice organizations including: After Downing Street, Backbone Campaign, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, CODE PINK: Women for Peace, Defenders for Freedom Justice & Equality, Democrats.com, Joyful Dissent, Peace of the Action, Progressive Democrats of America, Socialist Party of Central Virginia, Veterans for Peace, War Criminals Watch, and World Can’t Wait. (Hoos Against Yoo university protest slated to be world-class, Dupre, 2010)

 

Torture and other forms of official cruelty are illegal under US and international law – under any circumstances, yet Yoo is teaching law. The Obama adminstrations’ Justice Department has “rebuked” but not disbarred the torture memo authors lawyer John Yoo and Judge Jay Bybee.

 

Today, the protesters will display the emblematic prison jumpsuits and hoods that have come to symbolize the torture prison at Guantanamo where 154 prisoners are still being held, despite President Obama’s promise on May 23, 2013, to move towards closing Guantanamo. 

 

The protesters will mingle with the graduating students and their guests, offering orange “Guantanamo ribbons” to them to wear during the day’s ceremonies and celebrations.

 

 “While victims of the illegal torture program built on his legal handiwork continue to suffer and die, John Yoo has no more legitimate place on the UC faculty than do any of the other Bush torture team members who have similarly found safe harbor from prosecution in academia and the corporate business world,” claimed Curt Wechsler, editor of FireJohnYoo.net

 

For many years, Berkeley Law’s former Dean Christopher Edley insisted that Yoo’s presence on the faculty was protected by principles of academic freedom and constitutional rights. 

 

Because UC has this week announced the appointment of its new dean, Dr. Sujit Choudhry, this 2014 commencement anti-torture protest will draw nationwide attention to the issue of UC’s continuing employment of John Yoo.  

 

Dean Choudhry, an internationally recognized expert on comparative constitutional law, has published on Guantanamo-related issues and news.

 

The national organization The World Can’t Wait, the main sponsor of this demonstration, will also be one of many organizations holding protest rallies and demonstrations Friday, May 23 for a Global Day of Action to Close Guantánamo and End Indefinite Detention.      

 



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    • Deborah Dupre

      I keep asking, “What kind of nation have we become?”
      And then – “What can I do about it?”

      • conscious soul

        “What kind of nation have we become?” We’ve been that kind of nation from the beginning, unfortunately. There’s nothing new under the sun. The only thing different is that we are in the information age. Those behind the horrors then and now can no longer hide. Please accept Jesus Christ into your hearts and repent before its too late, GOD bless!

    • paul brown

      Good questions. Your stories provide some of the answers. Thank you so much.

    • Joe Miller

      I think it is fine to cause a disturbance over this, but this bit about torturing hundreds, pales in the face of the thousands killed and millions deceived by the false-flag 9/11 attack by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and several others with dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship to justify these illegal wars in the first place.

    • Deborah Dupre

      What an odd comment. Watch for the next report on how well (or poorly) the event went. Oh – and thanks for reading at least the first line.

    • Anonymous

      You consider ““Over a million Iraqis lie dead” to be made up?????

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