Like, seriously: I hate Dershowitz so much, that I may not be able to help myself from cussing at him or something if I ever run into him in the neighborhood. We’ve all read or heard about his learned legal justifications of torture. Perhaps not surprisingly, he’s apparently spoken in defense of John Yoo, a Berkeley law professor who’s in a bit of trouble for advising the Bush government on torture policy. Dershowitz thinks the school should only be concerned with Yoo’s academics. Wait, what? Yup, that’s right! Mr. Alan Dershowitz insisting on academic freedom: the same Dershowitz who instigated a political campaign to get another fellow academic denied tenure.
Here’s more on this, including a glimpse at Dershowitz’s views on torture. In one word, despicable.
