Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder: Canadians Throw Shoes to Protest War Criminal Bush's Visit

May 30, 2009

Canadians Throw Shoes to Protest War Criminal Bush's Visit

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Vincent Bugliosi, Charles Manson prosecutor, offers to help prosecute George W. Bush for murder.

He obviously has had plenty of experience dealing with a psychopath.

Hopefully some prosecutors somewhere take Bugliosi up on his offer.

To kill over a million people on lies skillfully delivered to fool the gullible is mass murder and a war crime.

These shoe throwing Canadians have honored humanity by reminding the world that justice needs to be done.

Grant

Source: AFP — Three Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush on Tuesday when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.

The footwear was tossed at an effigy of the 43rd US president outside a Calgary conference center where Bush was to speak to some 1,500 people at a luncheon, said Colette Lemieux of the Canadian Peace Alliance.

Some 200 protestors from across the country had gathered for the demonstration against Bush's invasion of Iraq and rendition of terror suspects, she said in a telephone interview with AFP.

They traded insults with guests lined up around the building, and "three people were taken away by police," she said. "It was a heated rally, but not a violent rally," she added.

A Calgary police spokeswoman said one protestor had been charged with obstruction and assaulting a policeman. Charges against two others were not announced.

"We had shoes sent in (to us) from across the country," Lemieux said earlier, charging Bush is a "war criminal" who must be prosecuted for his former administration's policies in the US "war on terror."

"It doesn't matter that he is no longer president," she added. "A bank robber who stops holding up banks can and must still be prosecuted for his crimes." The same applies for Bush, she said. CONT....