{"id":196645,"date":"2008-04-05T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/05\/damn-good-writing-gen-jc-christian-patriot-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-04-05T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T00:52:00","slug":"damn-good-writing-gen-jc-christian-patriot-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/05\/damn-good-writing-gen-jc-christian-patriot-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Good Writing, Gen. JC Christian, Patriot, Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good general wrote to the Dean of the UC Berkely law school, regarding their hiring of war criminal John Yoo.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could write so well.  The phrase, &#8220;Mengele Professor of Sado-Political Studies&#8221; is prize.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/shining-interrogation-center-upon-hill.html\">A shining interrogation center upon a hill<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Christopher Edley, Jr<br \/>Professor of Law and Dean<br \/>School of Law<br \/>University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Dear <a href=\"mailto:edley@law.berkeley.edu\">Dr. Edley<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very impressed by your decision to hire former Justice Department official John Yoo to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/yooj\/\">serve on your faculty<\/a>. It was a very shrewd marketing move on your part. It allows Berkeley to finally get past its sordid history as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/FSM\/\">battleground for the expansion of our civil liberties<\/a> and become the foremost advocate for that &#8220;shining interrogation center upon a hill&#8221; so many of us wish our nation to become.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;..<\/span><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/brendancalling.com\/2008\/04\/02\/shaming-and-shunning\/\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good general wrote to the Dean of the UC Berkely law school, regarding their hiring of war criminal John Yoo. I wish I could write so well. The phrase, &#8220;Mengele Professor of Sado-Political Studies&#8221; is prize. A shining interrogation center upon a hill Christopher Edley, JrProfessor of Law and DeanSchool of LawUniversity of California, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,968,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-education","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}