Keep your eyes and ears peaked for this coming week, when the whittle prince makes the rounds of his final goodbyes to Old Europe, many, my guess would be, will not enthused with welcoming his horror, whoops sorry, his honor.
“George Bush should be in The Hague facing war crimes charges over the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq since 2003, not being entertained in Downing Street. Gordon Brown doesn’t need a policy brief for this meeting, just a pair of handcuffs.”
Gee ya think! I Do!!
The above comes from The Independant of Great Britain.
And found in this article:
George Bush will face protests and demands that he be charged as a war criminal over the Iraq conflict when he makes his final visit to Britain as US President next weekend.
And who will be joining in the call:
leading voices in the worlds of the arts and politics, including the novelist Iain Banks, the artist David Gentleman and the human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, have now joined forces to call for Mr Bush to face a war crimes trial in the Hague.
Wonder how the Brits will handle the security and where they will force their citizens to assemble.
All the President’s visits
18-20 July, 2001
High: Bush meets the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Holds talks at Chequers with Tony Blair and appears at a joint press conference. Bush says: “Chequers is a … it’s a great place to get a night’s sleep.”Low: There are protests against the visit, in contrast to the euphoria for Bill and Hilary Clinton in May 1997, when the Blairs took the Clintons to the fashionable Le Pont de la Tour restaurant.
7-8 April, 2003
High: Bush visits Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, to support the peace talks just weeks after the invasion of Iraq.Low: Sinn Fein and SDLP supporters join anti-war protesters near Hillsborough.
18-21 November, 2003
High: Bush visits Buckingham Palace, and then has lunch with Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, the Prime Minister’s constituency.Low: Protest march by an estimated 200,000 against the Iraq war. US request for American fighter planes over London and closure of the Tube system is turned down.
6-8 July, 2005
High: Bush attends annual G8 summit at the world-famous golfing hotel at Gleneagles, Scotland, well away from anti-war protesters.Low: Bush overheard snubbing Blair by rejecting an offer by the Prime Minister to visit the Middle East as a peacemaker. Says he would rather send the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. End of summit overshadowed by terrorist bombings in London which kill 52 people.
Anti-war protest planned for Bush visit to London
Stop the War Coalition (STWC) described Bush as a “war criminal” and said the protest will be held outside the British parliament on June 15.
And a Happy Fathers Day jr. bush, by the way, why isn’t your new son-in-law in a military uniform!
I had no intention of arresting John Bolton, the former under-secretary of state at the US state department, when I arrived at the Hay festival. But during a panel discussion about the Iraq war, I remarked that the greatest crime of the 21st century had become so normalised that one of its authors was due to visit the festival to promote his book. I proposed that someone should attempt a citizens’ arrest, in the hope of instilling a fear of punishment among those who plan illegal wars. After the session I realised that I couldn’t call on other people to do something I wasn’t prepared to do myself.
And from Down Under
Australians Organize “A Group Of Veterans And Former Military Personnel Who Oppose The Current Wars Of Occupation In Iraq And Afghanistan”
Stand Fast seeks to add weight to the antiwar movement in Australia through organising veterans to speak out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and by debunking the myth that “If you’re against the war, you’re against the troops.”
Taking inspiration from US groups such as Iraq Veterans Against War, a new group of former military personnel opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — Stand Fast — was launched at the March 16 anti-war rallies across Australia, in time for the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Anti-war veterans group to be launched at Palm Sunday rallies
This Sunday at rallies across Australia marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq a new veterans group will be launched which opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Our group, called Stand Fast, will have speakers at rallies in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane,” said Hamish Chitts, former Australian infantry soldier, East Timor veteran and one of the founders of Stand Fast.
And what will our press be covering?
Well lets hope they’ve run out of repeating everything on Hillary and at least start covering Barack, after all isn’t he the one who will be running for President, cause we know they won’t be covering the Call from London!!
Death, cover-up force mom to pen ‘tribute to the truth’
This spring and summer, Amnesty International will tour a life-size replica of a maximum security cell at Guantánamo to cities across the USA.
The cell travels from Philadelphia to its next stop in Portland, ME. Portland events are scheduled Thursday through Saturday.
Check the cell tour blog for the latest info, images and videos taken at the events.
Visitors will experience firsthand the harsh realities of illegal detention and prolonged isolation. Those moved can comment on our blog, post pictures or record video messages live from inside the cell.
So what is this affliction that prevents Americans from seeing close up what the rest of the world has no problem perceiving even from a distance? I think optometrists would call it far-sightedness, but that sure as hell doesn’t apply to America. One can only wish that Bush would meet justice at the hands of decent European governments.
Keep your eyes on George Monbiot. He’ll probably attempt a citizen’s arrest.
Also, Howard Dean is due the next weekend. And last weekend we hosted John Edwards. I guess unlike other Americans, they don’t worry about the exchange rate.
Step into the prisoners dock.
At some point in time, many in this administration will not be able to travel freely. But,hopefully, travel they shall, in chains, to a court of law that will judge all terrorists equally.
Not by the color of their skin, nor by the weight of their power & influence, but by the fact that they are war criminals.
The famous British writer, Simon Jenkins, gives the third answer in his article “The `war on terror’ licenses a new stupidity in geopolitics” (The Guardian – 3012008).
He says: “the language loved by Bush has been translated into a universal disaster bringing death and misery to millions”.
Jenkins adds: “from the law courts of America to the mosques of west London and the mountains of the Hindu Kush , the war on terror has been lethally and predictably counter-productive.
It embodies the new stupidity in international affairs”. Isn’t it a legal right for the victims of this horrible terrorism which deluged Iraq , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Lebanon and Palestine with blood, death, annihilation, extortion, plundering, distortion, and torturing to ask for accountancy?
Isn’t there any one in the Security Council who can ask for appointing a committee to investigate into the killing of a million Iraqi civilians, deforming another million and widowing over one million women leaving them in dearth and exploitation.
Who is responsible for the explosions of houses, and the murdering of the Iraqis? Is it “Al-Qaeda” or the American Security firms? Who is responsible for combating this culprit war? Shall all its crimes pass without any inquiry or accountancy?
Saddam Hussein was indicted for the massacres he committed. So why not the American occupation is indicted also for its bloodbaths that register ed an analogic number in the human history.
In their continued statements, Bush and his aids insist on the crime of occupying Iraq because they are living tranquilly in the culture of impunity.
They killed civilian Japanese in Hiroshima and millions of Vietnamese peasants. They also destroyed the life of the Palestinian nation and now they believe that they will escape punishment because they are civilized democrats and the victims are Arabs and Muslims.
No hope is expected from the United Nations, not even from the Congress or the democratic parliaments. There is no trust in the “independent” judicial bodies where the dogma of justice collapses when the criminal is a Western democratic political leader and when victims are “foreigners”. The question at end is: Do one million Iraqi victims deserve prosecuting the killers under the just democratic system of the US ?
I believe that, if not, they will have “died in vain”. Over one million Iraqis will have died in vain.
We all remember that phrase, when ending the war too soon, would mean that those who died, would have died in vain, with no clear victory.