The "cover your ass" legal reasoning employed by the University of California to protect Berkeley Law professor John Yoo from accountability for his criminal activity at the Department of Justice during the Bush regime fails to silence repudiation of the "enhanced interrogation" policies Yoo’s work facilitated. And discredits the process for application of the law school’s own ethical standards for teaching.
Since protesting Yoo’s "Torture Memos" at the 2004 Boalt Hall graduation, students have challenged the presence of a war criminal on their faculty. Yet despite numerous letter and petition campaigns to investigate professional misconduct, community vigils in support of torture victims, even a City Council resolution to prosecute the professor for war crimes, school administrators have not only refused to investigate Yoo’s performance but have actually promoted his discredited work.
World Can’t Wait stands with Boalt Hall grads and all people of conscience who say NO! to torture in their names.
Berkeley Law Commencement 2012
May 11, 9:00 am
Hearst Greek Theatre
UC Berkeley
Speak out. Bring signs. Distribute orange ribbons to represent the prisoners languishing at Guantanamo, Bagram, "black sites" around the globe.
We refuse to live in a torture state!