"Iran's response to the war launched by the United States and Israel provides yet another reason to end the rule of the ayatollahs," posits the Berkeley professor defending targetted assassination.
Political leaders are hardly the only victims of the Trump administration's extrajudicial killing spree. Civilians suffer the destruction or appropriation of national resources. Academic invention attempts to justify the theft. War criminals like John Yoo advance fascist policy. But American lives are not more important than others. For the love of humanity, let's get these monsters out of our classrooms.
"We need to know where the boundaries of lawful conduct are in combating national security threats," responded (former) Berkeley Law dean Christopher Edley to persistant community calls for the dismissal of professor Yoo since the late 2000s. "We need to know when legal advice and advocacy become criminal." Questions never answered due to the dean's appraisal that "University faculty and administrators are not competent to answer these questions."
It's up to us.
