Bybee: "Littering is littering". .(torture is not so black & white apparently)

[annabanana]

A humanitarian was convicted of littering for leaving full water containers in the desert to save the lives of people in trouble.

The majority overturned his conviction because a reasonable person might not understand that leaving drinking water for people dying of thirst is littering. The United States countered that the water bottles constitute "garbage" in the sense of the statute. After foraging through some dictionary definitions of "garbage" and "discarded," the majority concludes that the regulation is too ambiguous to enforce in this case.


Judge Jay Bybee - he of the torture memo - dissents. Littering is littering, and Bybee finds that the regulation is as clear as a sunny day in the desert. This is the same Jay Bybee who thinks that terms like "torture" and "severe suffering" are so vague that it would be unfair to apply statutes prohibiting them to interrogators who waterboard people and keep them awake for a week at a time, naked and hanging in chains.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/torture-and-littering.html

Bybee is another one who shouldn't be aloud to leave his house without hoards of people reminding him of the damage he has done to this Country.

[Solly Mack]

1. Bybee should be in prison... instead, America has a war criminal sitting on the bench

where he can inflict more damage

[Angry Dragon]

2. His problem was identified by the majority

They said "a reasonable person", clearly this person has no reasoning power and is just garbage himself.

The French had a way to deal with people like this........