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Anti Bush Demonstration in Ottawa for Bush's Visit

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Westcoastin':
Tuesday man, for anyone near Ottawa that can make it.....supposed to be pretty big, heard they bringin' in Police from T.O.
Bush is coming to Canada for the first time in a few years.
5pm oclock...Parliament Hill,  supposed to be a candle thing, dont know if ill bother with that.  Sounds like alot of ppl from my Campus are headin down.




edit.....actually the candle lit vigil is at 5pm...i guess for any hippie burnouts still left around after the most-inevitable riot, the actual demonstration is slated for noon...supposedly peaceful, but most things like this turn violent

Ras Kass' Toothpick:
What a bunch of losers.

Westcoastin':

--- Quote from: Ras Kass' Toothpick on November 25, 2004, 05:05:41 PM ---What a bunch of losers.

--- End quote ---

whatever man, it'l be a trip to go to a mass rally. never been to one of those before......its just one of those things ya gotta do in college.  an anti-bush cause is just as good as any other.

bLaDe:
I found this interesting article from the Toronto Star.  Should Canada indict Bush?

Excerpts:

--- Quote ---This act was passed in 2000 to bring Canada's ineffectual laws in line with the rules of the new International Criminal Court. While never tested, it lays out sweeping categories under which a foreign leader like Bush could face arrest.

In particular, it holds that anyone who commits a war crime, even outside Canada, may be prosecuted by our courts. What is a war crime? According to the statute, it is any conduct defined as such by "customary international law" or by conventions that Canada has adopted.

War crimes also specifically include any breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, such as torture, degradation, wilfully depriving prisoners of war of their rights "to a fair and regular trial," launching attacks "in the knowledge that such attacks will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians" and deportation of persons from an area under occupation.
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Today, a strong case could be made that Bush violated the Nuremberg principles by invading Iraq. Indeed, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already labelled that war illegal in terms of the U.N. Charter.

Second, there is the manner in which the U.S. conducted this war.

The mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is a clear contravention of the Geneva Accord. The U.S. is also deporting selected prisoners to camps outside of Iraq (another contravention). U.S. press reports also talk of shadowy prisons in Jordan run by the CIA, where suspects are routinely tortured. And the estimated civilian death toll of 100,000 may well contravene the Geneva Accords prohibition against the use of excessive force.

Canada's war crimes law specifically permits prosecution not only of those who carry out such crimes but of the military and political superiors who allow them to happen.

What has emerged since Abu Ghraib
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-b[X]

Trauma-san:
If Canada arrests Bush, I'll go bail him out.  Well, actually if Canada goes and arrests Bush, I'll probably just wait a few months until we conquer the land, and then get a summer home near Ottawa

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