John Yoo's Day Is Gonna Come

John Yoo was the author of memos that Bush and Cheney used to start their torture program. Why Americas are not more upset with this guy escapes me.

On what level, philosophical, religious, practical, can you get to the point, where you throw away away all laws and safeguards, and just make up legal judgments for your boss?

Thankfully, Yoo's assault on society is coming back to haunt him. He's been ordered to testify in the Jose Padilla case.

“Judge [Jeffrey S.] White denied most elements of Mr. Yoo’s motion and quoted a passage from the Federalist Papers that in times of war, nations, to be more safe, ‘at length become willing to run the risk of being less free,’” noted The New York Times.

It's unfortunate Padilla is a less than sympathetic character for Yoo's misdeeds to be highlighted.

But tyranny must always be stopped, no matter what the timing.

Scott Horton, a contributing editor to Harper’s, said Yoo’s memos “freed [the Bush administration] from the constraints of the Bill of Rights” during wartime “with respect to anything [Bush] chose to label as counter-terrorism operations inside the United States.”

With all these false "un-American" talking points being thrown out there, it's about time we all put away the rhetoric and get to the bottom of real issues. Being in denial at the time of these crimes, and even worse, now, is no excuse. Own up to your mistakes. That is the American thing to do.

Source: Raw Story