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Arrest Blair Call – When War Criminal Visits Dublin national |
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 Monday August 16, 2010 13:10 by GAAW PRO - Galway Alliance Against War
 The news that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is to sign copies of his newly published memoirs at Eason’s in O’Connell St Dublin on September 4th has prompted the Galway Alliance Against War to call for him to be arrested for war crimes – specifically “for his unprovoked war of aggression against the defenceless people of Iraq”. The Galway Alliance Against War acknowledges in its press release that the Irish State should arrest Blair rather than squander “a small fortune in taxpayers’ money protecting this war criminal.” The group therefore is calling on the local peace groups around the country to organise their own arrest committees with the specific aim of carrying out a peaceful citizen’s arrest of Tony Blair during his visit in September. According to GAAW, Blair is due to appear on RTE’s “Late Late Show” on Friday 3rd September, so peace activists will have at least two opportunities to arrest the “British war criminal”. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4It has been announced that Blair will hand over all profits as well as the reported advance of £4million from his published memoirs.
See the link:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0816/....html
he's handing it to British military casualty rehabilitation. Meantime Iraq unravels by the day at ever accelerating speed and the desertion is on schedule, except for a 50,000 garrison of rearguard occupation to ensure Iran or Saudi dont flex their ambitions. But while I'm all for confronting Blair on his whistle-stop pump, what do we do with our resident political collaborators and their lapdog media poodles?Shannon is often in the news, but try and make a comment relating to the military traffic and the blind eye gets the broad end of the telescope every time.
Sunday's Tribune refers to Irish arms deals with Elbit Systems of Israel and BAE (Blairs buddies that he quashed an inquiry into a £1bn bribe to the saudi defence minister on behalf of).The government are passing responsibility back to Brussells for trade or economic sanctions(handy shrug), and floating along in an understanding fashion with the necessities of Israeli borrowing our passports.Bertie Boy and Micky Martin (to say nothing of the hahaha 'opposition')are as culpable as Blair, just a little further from the direct action.
Catholic Workers Counter Recruitment at British Army Showroom London
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/08/457238.html
The millions from the streets chanted 'Bush, Blair Lied, Millions Died. Not to mention all the other war criminal things those two intitiated against the worlds' work, such as exposing the fact that their hidden agenda of taking and monopolizing the mid-east oil, which is a lying unjust cause in its self, as the pollution from the coal, gas, and oil is killing the world's ecololgical balance of life, and pushing the burn out of the earth's oxygen in the atmosphere. That is the deepest most threatening of all aggressions past, and present. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more pollution.