I'm sure many of you have heard about the NPR interview with legal scholar John Yoo. Yoo, in case you don't know, is the legal theorist behind many of President Bush's philosophies. Signing statements, the unitary executive–they all originate in the writings of John Yoo.
Yoo was interviewed by NPR yesterday on the Congressional bill that strips enemy combatants of habeus corpus rights and other legal protections. Yoo's justification for the move? Economic realities. Habeus corpus has a cost, he said. Money. Time. Secrecy. Congress is just trying to save money, speed the process along, protect the secrets the government needs to function.
Earth to John Yoo.
I'd like to see you stripped naked, your wrists and ankles bound in rope, duct tape slapped across your mouth, then dropped into Guantanamo Bay where you'll be begging for your habeus corpus rights and the legal protections of the Geneva Conventions after you've been sodomized fourteen times with a police baton, beaten to a bloody pulp, kept aware for seventy-two straight hours, and deprived of food and water.
Fuck you, scum.