Torture boy John Yoo at UT Law school Austin 2/25 - Protest

[sonias]

March 25, 2010 – Austin, Texas
Year 8 in Iraq War, as Afghan War escalates
5:30 PM Thursday, February 25
UT School of Law
Protest the author of the torture "justification"!

Event was completely free with no tickets required, but now they've closed the event to students only. Boy reminds me of bushie - too scared to deal with the "public". I imagine that the protest will be near the law school somewhere.

UT 2/23/10
University of Texas School of Law Federalist Society Hosts Talk by Former Justice Department Official John Yoo

AUSTIN, Texas — John Yoo, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and former U.S. Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, will speak on "Crisis and Command: The History of Presidential War Power" at The University of Texas School of Law on Thursday, Feb. 25.

Yoo served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2003 as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.

Yoo's talk, sponsored by The University of Texas School of Law Federalist Society, is free and open to the public. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Law School's Charles Francis Auditorium. Members of the news media are welcome to attend.

:puke:

[trungpa ricochet]

1. Austin will not be nice

There are a large number of people in Austin who will let the professor know what kind of a sphincter he is.

[sonias]

2. You can count on that

The unfortunate part is the protest will probably be corralled off away from Yoo boy's eyes.

There will be some students who got tickets to give him hell inside too.

[sonias]

3. Ex-White House counsel Yoo speaks at UT

AAS 2/26/10
Ex-White House counsel Yoo speaks at UT
Yoo, one of the attorneys behind defense for interrogation tactics, drew protesters.
(snip)
Outside the event, about a dozen protesters, members of the American Civil Liberties Union and UT law students, held signs that said "Torture is wrong," as well as signs with newspaper clippings about Yoo.

(snip)
UT Law School alumna Stefanie Collins said Yoo's interpretation of policy is flawed and encourages an American sense of entitlement in torture tactics.

"It's sending a message to the world that we're bigger and stronger," Collins said. "I just don't know what we get from that in the long run."

Police asked protesters who were not students to move to the other side of Dean Keeton Street and checked a few for student IDs.

I can't believe the police segregated the protesters into students and non-students. :grr: