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Video Of Torture Master John Yoo
Being Asked To Justify "Crushing Children's Testicles"
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The Baker Institute Student Forum (BISF) hosted a
discussion involving three panelists on November 3 2006, one of
which was John Yoo, co author of the PATRIOT ACT and various controversial
memos in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and
that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva
Conventions. Yoo also decreed that it was legal to declare war anytime,
any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.
Skip forward to 1hr: 39mins: 43seconds:
Yoo is asked by an Infowars reader to explain the moral justification
for crushing a child's testicles or raping a child in front of a
parent.
Yoo backtracks on previous comments he made during a December 1st
debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human
rights scholar Doug Cassel, John Yoo gave the green light for the
scope of torture to legally include sexual torture of infants.
Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture
somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s
child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote
in the August 2002 memo…
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs
to do that.
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for the audio.
Yoo suggests that his comments were taken out of context and blames
the internet suggesting that you "can't believe everything
you hear on the internet".
Yoo cannot deny that there is no moral justification for the actions
he argued were technically legal. Yoo is using the legal argument
to hide behind a clear avocation of genocide.
Yoo argues presidential powers on Constitutional grounds, but
where in the Constitution does it say the President can order the
torture of children? Georgetown Law Professor David Cole wrote,
"Yoo reasoned that because the Constitution makes the President
the 'Commander-in-Chief,’ no law can restrict the actions
he may take in pursuit of war. On this reasoning, the President
would be entitled by the Constitution to resort to genocide if he
wished."
Last
September the Senate officially gave President Bush the legal
authority to abduct and sexually mutilate American citizens and
American children in the name of the war on terror when it passed
new detainee legislation.
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