Pushing For The Arrest of George W. Bush For War Crimes in British Columbia

Run time: 15:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ohEBnBnt7o   Posted on YouTube: May 06, 2011 By YouTube Member: MrArrestBush Views on YouTube: 423   Posted on DU: May 10, 2011 By DU Member: JohnyCanuck Views on DU: 672

 
The mayor of Surrey BC (part of Metro Vancouver) invited self-confessed war criminal George W Bush to address an upcoming economic conference to take place in her fair city in the fall of this year. Some Canadian activists organized a demonstration at the Surrey city hall to explain to the the mayor and law enforcement authorities that, should he set foot in Canada, under Canadian law George Bush must be arrested for war crimes. One of the participants in the demo was native rights activist Splitting the Sky, who was himself arrested in a previous attempt to perform a citizens arrest on GWB while GWB was in Calgary AB on a speaking engagement.

his lying misadventures. Go British Columbia !

Then arrested him.

Someone should do a GWH Bush and just come in and take him, like little george did Saddam or like big george did with Manuel Noriega. Or Obama did with bin Laden.
Hey, if we can do it in other countries, why not some other country to us?

Other names on the list include Richard Bruce Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

On Monday, May 2 a coalition of activists and civil resisters marched on Surrey City Hall in an attempt to school Mayor Dianne Watts on the voluminous domestic and supranational legislation that exists pertaining to credibly accused war criminals and other violators of human rights. Mayor Dianne Watts' ill conceived invitation to George W. Bush to come to Surrey, British Columbia to attend the annual Surrey Regional Economic Summit this coming Oct. 20 stimulated the demonstration, which was organized by Mohawk activist and author Splitting the Sky.

Splitting the Sky led the procession which marched peacefully in the direction of the mayor's office chanting "Arrest George Bush! Enforce the law!" Splitting the Sky presented Mayor Watts' communications specialist Tara Foslien with documents demonstrating the correspondence between Bush's self-admitted misdeeds and the Canadian laws explicitly prohibiting such crimes. The civil resister cited domestic legislation such as the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act as examples of two legal bodies enshrined to prevent Canada from becoming a safe haven for war criminals.

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The attempts to elucidate the illegitimacy of the proposed visit of Bush to British Columbia in October ought to be viewed as an extension of the citizens' mobilizations which began with Bush's controversial visit to Calgary, Alberta on Mar. 17, 2009. That visit was Bush's first visit to a foreign country without diplomatic immunity. After the failure of law enforcement officials to do their jobs and arrest the then credibly accused war criminal -- now self-confessed torturer -- Splitting the Sky courageously and selflessly attempted to breach the police lines and conduct a citizen's arrest on the former U.S. president.

During the subsequent trial in Calgary which some dubbed "The trial of Splitting the Sky versus George W. Bush," former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark -- Splitting the Sky's former lawyer -- and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney flew in to the oil-patch city to participate in the proceedings. The trial culminated with Splitting the Sky being given a conditional discharge by Judge Manfred Delong allowing him to avoid immediate incarceration. Some read this comparative leniency as a tacit acknowledgement by Judge Delong that Splitting the Sky was, as he submitted, being a conscientious citizen when he attempted to uphold the rule of law by seeking to arrest Bush.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2011/05/arresting-impunity-canadas-law-enforcement-system-put-trial

The fact that Bush & Cheney can step foot in the United States without being arrested is a national shame.

that adminsitration, their enablers and propagandists in the media, we should clean house.

I would put them in GTMO awaiting trial. Guess how fast Republicans would then want to shut GTMo THEN!!!