Law students protest Jay Bybee.
By on Feb 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Law students protest Jay Bybee.
Yesterday, former Office of Legal Counsel head Jay Bybee — who signed off on the infamous August 2002 “torture memo” — spoke at Yale Law School. The Yale Daily News reports that the “speaker had hardly finished his first sentence when about 25 Yale Law School students in the audience stood up and sheathed their heads in black trash bags, in imitation of hooded military prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.”
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Don’t trash me, bro!!
February 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pmToo bad that the rest of the law students didn’t just attach wires to Bybee’s gonads and connect them to a battery.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pmGood for them, the entire audience should have done the same.
And why did they invite a criminal enabler anyway?
Buck Fush
February 1st, 2008 at 5:58 pmA taste of things to come.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pmFantastic. :-)
February 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pmGLADbulous!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pmBybee just another Bushtapo enforcer.
-GSD
February 1st, 2008 at 6:11 pmYou liberals sure do love free speech.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pmYou liberals sure do love free speech.
Comment by mandolin — February 1, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
Yeah, we do.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm‘Freedom to Lie’….no we don’t put up with that. Congrats Yale baggies!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pmHey, it’s 8string, out of tune yet again!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pmYou liberals sure do love free speech.
Comment by mandolin — February 1, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
Might be why they didn’t storm the stage and beat the crap out of the guy. I’m sure they could have gotten a few good kicks in before security got to them. It would have crossed MY mind once or twice.
It boggles my mind that we put up with criminals in politics like it’s some sort of game and not REALLY that bad that they’re screwing us and then wiping their pr**ks with the Constitution. Any normal person does anything remotely similar and the cops take us away and we need to use a lawyer to get free.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:41 pmHey, mandolin, haven’t you heard the latest? “Free speech isn’t free.”
February 1st, 2008 at 6:57 pmIt’s coming home to roost for the Right. Slow but sure . . . but inevitable.
And ya know what? I’ve had it with the DUMB and I mean DUMB right wingers who do the “you liberals are hypocrites on Free Speech” bullshit. Hey, morons, Free Speech ONLY ONLY ONLY applies to governmental restriction thereof and NOT to private entities. That’s how you bigots get to keep blacks out of your clubs.
Friggin morons.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pmAbout time we heard from the the Yalies. But they follow Rosemary Hall. Whats that tell you about higher education.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:33 pmYou liberals sure do love free speech.
Comment by mandolin — February 1, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
that’s what the baggies were practicing. no one told him to shut up.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pmHey, it’s 8string, out of tune yet again!
Comment by RUCerious — February 1, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
Nice one RU…I think it needs to be restrung.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pmComment by RUCerious — February 1, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
Hey, it’s 8string, out of tune yet again!
Beautiful!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 8:06 pmWhy can we not just perform a citizen’s arest on Bush or Cheney or Rove or any of the other criminals?
February 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pmIt is kind of sad when our kids have bigger balls than we do.
Our generation got them into this mess…..this generation can not get us out of this mess.
I hope they hassle everyone of these neocons at every chance they get.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:16 pmBarely a whimper from the whiny troll contingent. Even they can finally read the writing on the bathroom wall, and it aint’ “tap three times for a good time”.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:19 pmBybee, just another rat bastard that should be spewing his putrid babble from a jail cell. These reich wingers whine because their criminal heroes aren’t given enough paid public podiums to speak from while war protesters are restricted to caged “free speech zones”.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pmYou liberals sure do love free speech.
Comment by mandolin — February 1, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
As soon as pulling a hood over my head makes a Republican Fascist stop lying pathologically and shut its trap, let me know.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pmIt’s coming home to roost for the Right. Slow but sure . . . but inevitable.
And ya know what? I’ve had it with the DUMB and I mean DUMB right wingers who do the “you liberals are hypocrites on Free Speech†bullshit. Hey, morons, Free Speech ONLY ONLY ONLY applies to governmental restriction thereof and NOT to private entities. That’s how you bigots get to keep blacks out of your clubs.
Friggin morons.
Comment by scytherius — February 1, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
How about when the Corporate Media shuts out Liberal and Left opinion from the airwaves? Not to mention Ron Paul, but I guess he doesn’t mind when a big media corporation screws him over. After all, a judge has already ruled that corporations have a free speech right to narrow public debate to right wing and “centrist” opinions that don’t threaten their financial interests.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:32 pmTime to reinstall the Fairness Doctrine.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pmAfter all, corporations are only making massive profits for free using our publicly owned, highly valuable broadcast spectrum. It’s not like they owe us anything in return.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pmBravo to the Yalies.
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 amIt’s unfortunate is that he still collected his honorarium.
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmIn a normal prison, yes their treatment would have been considered, by many including myself cruel and unjust. But this is a prison for war prisoners – Right now – TERROISTS. If this is what it takes to get information from someone, and it will protect me and my family in the long run. Then I’m all for it.
To stand behind the actions of the lawyers is in my opinion to give a go ahead to terroists and to only hamper our work in stopping them.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm#23 – My generation was the one that protested against the Vietnam War and marched in the streets for civil rights. Speaking only for myself, I have been doing what I am now physically capable of doing and perhaps a bit more jaded than I was in the 70s. It is also important to remind one and all that Al Gore was elected by the people, not George Bush. It was the USSC that selected Bush to be pResident. The Bushies/neocons, and the republicrats who have allowed the nightmare of the past 7 years to happen. Not all of us of the “older” generation have condoned what has happened. I most certainly have not and do not.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 amIn a normal prison, yes their treatment would have been considered, by many including myself cruel and unjust. But this is a prison for war prisoners – Right now – TERROISTS. If this is what it takes to get information from someone, and it will protect me and my family in the long run. Then I’m all for it.
Comment by paulsherman
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up until now there were no Americans on that list………you should be very proud.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am