Hahahahah! ROFL!!! Students on Rate my Professor: "Torture memo" professor John Yoo

[HamdenRice]

From Rate my Professors dot com on John Yoo of Boalt Hall (U. Cal. Berkeley) School of Law:

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=581083

1. Should be imprisoned for war crimes: the prime legal enabler of the Bush Administation's thrashing of the US constitution, respect for human dignity, respect for individual privacy, and stance against torture. This man shall, we must all hope, end up in prison.

2. Terrible architect of torture. Should not belong at Berkeley.

3. This class was a TORTURE to take.

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So why does the very liberal Berkley Law School keep this "professor of torture" clown on its payroll???

[BrklynLiberal]

1. what was Berkeley thinking when they hired him??

Temporary loss of reason?

[HamdenRice]

2. Just a guess

The torture memo revelations hadn't become public and he was just a well credentialed young lawyer from the Justice Department.

Once all that came out, the problem was that there is a tradition of not firing people -- even people without tenure -- for their political or intellectual opinions.

But I bet he will not get tenure there. I would bet also when his contract runs out it will not be renewed.

But some behavior crosses a line and merits firing. Advocating torture that results in not just injuries but deaths constitutes that kind of behavior.

[roguevalley]

4. it rather puts the college on the line to live up to its humanity. I love

this practice. I get even with every english teacher I had. they were the worst professors I ever had.

[hwmnbn]

9. He already has tenure there...

The only way to get rid of him is to publicly shame his bullshit legal "opinions" and have a drop in the number of students signing up for his class.

That might happen given all this publicity.

[Dr.Phool]

8. He threatened to torture them?

[electropop]

13. Maybe he waterboarded the Chancellor?

Fried the board's balls?

[Sabriel]

3. I see he's not "hot" rated, either.

The guy can't get a break.

[samdogmom]

5. Sorry to get off-topic--but in the same vein--why the "H" does Stanford want

Condeelezza back??????

Me? I'd be horrified and embarrassed to have her on the teaching staff! What's she going to teach? "Torture--How it Benefits America" or "Waging Unprovoked Wars--How this action Destroys a Robust Economy?"

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Guess she can always lean back on teaching about the Soviet threat!!!

hahahahahahahaahah

[OffWithTheirHeads]

14. She can teach what it feels like to be fucked by a tiny George

or, what it's like to fuck a monkey.

[mitchum]

12. Maybe she can teach a course on The Peter Principle...

she is highly qualified for that

[JBoy]

6. This reply is hilarious!

This class was a real pain. He would torment us with endless theory. We had to wrack our brains every day. He really put the thumb screws to us, and gave us the third degree. And he constantly listened to Iron Maiden...very distracting.

[formercia]

11. Iron Maiden

It figures:

[lonestarnot]

7. ewwwww yes! I knew those students would give him a proper ranking!

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