John Choon Yoo ( http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/
,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235
) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and
is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to
President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea
with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa
Arnett, the daughter of re****ter Peter Arnett.
Douglass Cassel (
http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html
) is the
Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil
and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof.
Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:
""
Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture
somebody, including by cru****ng the testicles of the person's child,
there is no law that can stop him?
Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in the
August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do
that.
""
You can listen to the above exchange on the below audio clip:
http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3
The below audio clip is a longer recording which includes the above
exchange:
http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3
See also:
"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture
Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us):
http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html
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Since H.R. 3162, i.e., the "USA Patriot Act," was passed into law on
October 26, 2001 without the Congress or Senate even being allowed to
read it before voting on it, the police can now secretly search your
house and take whatever they want from it without having to tell you
about it until they issue you a warrant up to six months later (see
SEC. 213). Also, the legal definition of "domestic terrorism" was
changed to include any "acts dangerous to human life that are a
violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State"
(see SEC. 802)--which could quite literally be jaywalking. And since
P.L. 107-40 (September 18, 2001) was enacted and Bush, Jr. signed the
November 13, 2001 Presidential Military Order, *habeas corpus* has
been done away with as U.S. citizens can now be held indefinitely and
in secret on the mere suspicion that they are in some way involved in
"terrorism" (which can now be virtually anything--see the above
redefined definition of "domestic terrorism") without even being
charged; they can be tried by a secret military tribunal where they
will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers; and they can
be executed in secret. Indeed, U.S. citizens have already been held
for years without any charges even having been filed against them
(such as José Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi), and the U.S. government
says that it can keep U.S. citizens that way indefinitely.
So it's not surprising to find that the U.S. government has been
torturing innocent people, including U.S. citizens. This includes U.S.
soldiers torturing people in U.S. custody to death.
"Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally--FBI Participated in
Interrogations Despite Apparent Knowledge of Torture, Abduction,"
Human Rights Watch, May 24, 2005:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/24/pakist11005.htm
"Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured," Michael Isikoff,
Newsweek, August 8, 2005 issue:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769416/site/newsweek/
"Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's 'extraordinary
rendition' program," Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Issue of February 14,
2005, posted February 7, 2005:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
"CIA kidnapped terror suspects in the EU: lawmaker," Reuters, April
26, 2006:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=11968389
In the Bagram, Afghanistan U.S. military base, U.S. government
officials publicly admit that they're murdering Afghan inmates there
by torturing them to death:
"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base:
'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling," Duncan Campbell, The
Guardian (U.K.), March 7, 2003:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,909164,00.html
"Prisoners 'killed' at US base," BBC News, March 6, 2003:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2825575.stm
"Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail," Douglas
Jehl, New York Times, March 12, 2005:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12detain.html
Included in the U.S. government's use of torture against innocent
people is the rape of women and male children:
"US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), May 9, 2004:
http://www.rense.com/general52/erh.htm
Among other tortures, U.S. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's re****t details
anal rape committed by U.S. soldiers. Also detailed in U.S. Maj. Gen.
Antonio Taguba's re****t and by other U.S. military sources, Military
Intelligence and the CIA ordered the torture at the Abu Ghaib prison.
"U.S. Army re****t on Iraqi prisoner abuse: Executive summary of
Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba," NBC News, May 4, 2004:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/
"Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top:
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq
personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), April 3, 2005:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0403-03.htm
"Pentagon Re****t Set Framework For Use of Torture: Security or Legal
Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued," Jess
Bravin, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2004:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0607-01.htm
"Rumsfeld: Worst Still To Come--Pentagon Boss Apologizes To Iraqis;
Says More Videos, Photos Exist," CBS News and Associated Press (AP),
May 7, 2004:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/08/iraq/main616338.shtml
As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said concerning the pictures and
videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis that the U.S. government
still refuses to release: "The American public needs to understand
we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about
giving people a humiliating experience."
"In quotes: Rumsfeld faces Congress," BBC News, May 7, 2004:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3694995.stm
And as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said concerning the pictures
and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis that the U.S. government
still refuses to release: "Beyond abuse of prisoners, there are other
photos that depict incidents of physical violence towards prisoners,
acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and
inhuman ... There are a lot more photographs and videos that exist ...
If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make
matters worse. That's just a fact. I mean, I looked at them last night
and they're hard to believe."
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The U.S. government has been training its troops and foreign NATO and
U.N. military for a long time (i.e., well before the U.S.
government-staged 9/11 attacks) in putting U.S. citizens in
concentration camps and for total gun confiscation.
Watch Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries (both
published well before the U.S. government-staged 9/11 attacks) where
you can see U.S. troops training with U.N. troops in disarming
American citizens and putting them into concentration camps, and
anouncing over their loudspeakers: "Be calm, there is food, there is
water in the camp ... violation of camp rules will not be tolerated
...."
They had American role-players screaming back at the U.S. and foreign
U.N. troops, "I'm an American! I'm an American! You can't do this to
me! I have rights!"
On Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries you can see
many more of these training exercizes conducted in other cities and
towns. Below you can watch Alex Jones's first two Police State videos
in full and for free:
Police State 2000 (published 1999):
http://www.archive.org/details/PS2000
Police State II: The Takeover (published 2000):
http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceStateII
There have literally been hundreds of these type of training exercizes
going on in the U.S. since the early 1990s. For example, see:
Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland, California 1999:
http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html
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http://www.infowars.com/Images/newouw/foreign_troops.jpg
Australian, British and other foreign troops training with U.S. troops
for total gun confiscation of U.S. citizens and in rounding up U.S.
citizens into concentration camps at Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland,
California 1999
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For more on this subject, see below:
"U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules," Jerry
Markon, Wa****ngton Post, September 10, 2005; Page A01:
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html
"Reagan Aides and the 'Secret' Government," Alfonso Chardy, Miami
Herald, July 5, 1987:
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/secret_white_house_plans.htm
"Martial Law Concerns," Congressman Jim McDermott, House of
Representatives, March 11, 2003:
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp030311.shtml
Below are some archives for mainstream major media news articles
dealing with these gulag matters:
Primary Prison Planet Mainstream-Media News Archive on FEMA
Concentration Camps:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps.html
FEMA Camps/Martial Law Archive:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_fema.html
Habeas Corpus Archive:
The below archived news articles deal with how the U.S. government is
currently indefinitely holding U.S. citizens who have not been charged
with any crime, and how U.S. citizens in general can be tried by a
secret military tribunal where they will not have the right to
cross-examine their accusers, and they can be executed in secret:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_habeas.html
Model States Emergency Health Powers Act (which has been passed on the
Federal level) Archive:
The below news articles talk about how the U.S. government can
quarantine whole cities and round U.S. citizens up to be put in
concentration camps in the event of, e.g., a bio-weapons release:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_modelstates.html
Below are some additional documentation resources to learn more about
the FEMA concentration/extermination camps in the U.S.:
http://infowars.com/goodphotos.html
"Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?," Associated Press (via KXLY
News), February 25, 2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030408233829/http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=26857
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_022703_camps.html
Interview of Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/schultz_02_27_03.mp3
And see also:
"Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Ritt Goldstein,
Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
"Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For
Martial Law: Nationwide initiative trains volunteers to teach
congregations to 'obey the government' during seizure of guns,
property, forced inoculations and forced relocation," Paul Joseph
Watson, Prison Planet.com, May 24, 2006:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm
--
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist," June 1, 2005
http://www.geocities.com/vonchloride/anarchist-jesus.pdf
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