"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36/New Testament
"John Yoo is a moral vacuum, but he is also a constitutional law professor at one of the nation's top law schools and a former Supreme Court clerk... So when John Yoo claims that the President is not bound by Congressional limits, he is not simply ignorant or misunderstanding the law. He is lying."
from: Top Bush Adviser Defends Allowing President to Massacre, Nuke Civilians at Raw Story ,Feb. 23, 2010
*John Yoo & the Imperial Presidency
*There are no limits to the president's Power
*Law and morality do not apply to America's God Kings
*US politicians & judges all for sale to the highest bidder
*Bribes in the form of Campaign Contributions & the death of democracy
*America is as corrupt as any Third World Nation which it is quickly becoming
First an update on John Yoo & the torture Memos & the Imperial Presidency.
If Obama and his crowd did the right thing John Yoo would have at the least been disbarred if not sent to prison or even hanged like the NAZI lawyers at Nuremberg.
This just in From Rachel Maddow
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by The Rachel Maddow Show
New Report Undermines Cheney Torture Claims via CommonDreams.org
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Thanks to president Obama fear of Cheney, Bush and the well connected elite and the cowardly amoral US congress & Senate & their media enabler John Yoo is permitted to spread his form of Neoconservative amorality to other up and coming lawyers. Meanwhile Dick Cheney gets to sow his evil. Political Philosopher Leo Strauss would be proud of his evil minions and how they turned all of America into a moral vacuum.
Just because someone attends religious services or believes in God or Jesus doesn't mean that they are beyond the judgment of other mere mortals. Dick Cheney I surmise believes in the God of History who will in the future vindicate his actions.
If someone decides that they are part of some ultimate destiny as many Americans do they believe that whatever they do what ever laws they pass or believe all that matters is winning.
Bush Cheney Rumsfeld Conolezza Rice Jay Bybee Gonzales Karl Rove -they believe they are outside the bounds of ordinary basic morality or human decency-
Top Bush Adviser Defends Allowing President to Massacre, Nuke Civilians at Raw Story ,Feb. 23, 2010
"You did argue that the president can legally order a village of civilians massacred," a KQED radio host asked John Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley. "Do you stand by that?"
"If, I thought it was militarily necessary," Yoo replied. "All you have to do is look at American history.... Look at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The senior Justice Department legal adviser to president Bush who made the legal case for the Bush Administration's use of torture tactics on terror suspects defended comments that the president could unilaterally "massacre" civilians in wartime in a newly released interview.
...Liberal blog ThinkProgress' Ian Millhiser, which first highlighted the interview, argues that Yoo's understanding of the law in this case is wrong.
"As far back as 1804, a unanimous Supreme Court held in Little v. Barreme that Congress has sweeping authority to limit the President's actions in wartime. That case involved an Act of Congress authorizing vessels to seize cargo ships bound for French ports. After the President also authorized vessels to seize ships headed away from French ports, the Supreme Court held this authorization unconstitutional on the grounds that Congress' decision to allow one kind of seizure implicitly forbade other kinds of seizure. More recently, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Court held that the President does not have the power to unilaterally set military policy (in those cases with respect to detention); he must comply with statutory limits on his power. Taken together, these and other cases unquestionably establish that Congress has the power to tell the President 'no,' and the President must listen."
"John Yoo is a moral vacuum, but he is also a constitutional law professor at one of the nation's top law schools and a former Supreme Court clerk," the site added. "It is simply impossible that Yoo is not aware of Little, Hamdi and Hamdan, or that he does not understand what they say. So when John Yoo claims that the President is not bound by Congressional limits, he is not simply ignorant or misunderstanding the law. He is lying."
and here's audio from the interview:
Democracy For Sale: Bill Moyers Journal, PBS Feb. 10
Bill Moyers Journal, February 19, 2010, Bill comments on the Supreme Courts recent decision and it's contribution to the ongoing problem of "Democracy For Sale".
Bill Moyers, Justice for Sale (4)
JUSTICE FOR SALE
Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America's courts. The Journal revisits the 1999 FRONTLINE special "Justice for Sale" which looked at the growing concern - even among Supreme Court justices themselves - that campaign contributions may be corrupting the judicial process.
Bill Moyers, Buying the Courts, Jeff Toobin_2
Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America's courts. The JOURNAL revisits the 1999 FRONTLINE special "Justice for Sale" which looked at the growing concern - even among Supreme Court justices themselves - that campaign contributions may be corrupting the judicial process.
JEFFREY TOOBIN
Legal analyst and journalist Jeffrey Toobin talks about the relationship between big money and judicial elections today.
How to Get Our Democracy Back 1/2 - 2-05-2010 Democracy NOW!
Part 1 - Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig. Published with 'written permission' from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license.
How to Get Our Democracy Back 2/2 - 2-05-2010 Democracy NOW!
and so it goes,
GORD.
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