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Canadian Lawyers Seek Ban On Bush Visit Due to War Crimes

Comment by Larry Ross, November 21, 2004

This superlatively excellent Canadian lawyers call for a ban on Bush visits, and Bush's indictment for war crimes, deserves to be put on the agenda of every peace group everywhere.

They could do a peace action and send it to all their politicians, perhaps more than once, and lobby them as well. Repeated emphasis is effective, as Bush continually demonstrates.

It could be applied in every country, widely publicised, and forwarded to others.

Surely this kind of effective action is better than letting Bush continue to create his new “truths” and self-serving pre-emptive nuclear war doctrines. Most people and most mass media remain silent while Bush and his neo-cons build their “1984 perpetual wars” type of world over the next 4 years, maybe longer. The Canadian lawyer's letter can be used to express a peace action which communicates that Bush and accomplices are increasingly perceived as war criminals.

It is natural to feel despondent and defeated over Bush, who so far has been successful at having the new voting machine technology appear to give him a victory over Kerry. Many groups are working very hard to expose this.

So it's not too late for others around the world to do something like this proposed peace action.

As accomplices, Condolessa Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others should have the same kind of legal restraints applied to them. Even if a government feels it must go ahead and "invite" Bush or accomplices to visit, at least the local population will better know what kind of people are to receive state honours in their countries.

Who would like to work on this project in our own country - New Zealand?

Thanks again to Canadian lawyers for their magnificent letter to Prime Minister Martin.

Peace groups wishing to stage their own War Crimes Trial for Bush, or Bush and his accomplices, Prime Ministers Blair and Howard, go to: War Crimes and Impeachment for background facts and dates and INDICTMENT- GEORGE BUSH, TONY BLAIR AND JOHN HOWARD FOR WAR CRIMES and get lots of briefing material, the script we used in Christchurch New Zealand on August 7, 2004 and the costumes, masks and props used.

Larry Ross

Dear Mr. Martin:
It was with absolute dismay that we learned of the planned visit of President Bush to Canada on November 30th 2004.   Surely you are aware of the many grave crimes against humanity and war crimes for which President Bush stands properly accused by the world, starting with the Nuremberg Tribunal´s ‘supreme international crime´ of waging an aggressive war against Iraq in defiance of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and including systematic and massive violations of the Geneva Conventions Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Dear Mr. Martin:
Canada is at a crossroads – and under heavy pressure from the United States – with respect to the U.S.’s “missile defence” program. This program should be seen clearly – and assertively and publicly acknowledged by Canada – for what it is, nothing less than a pre-emptive action by the United States to dictate how space is to be used and controlled to benefit and advance American interests.
As the Iraq war and its aftermath have borne out, pre-emptive action by one player in the arena of international affairs is not only immoral, it has wholly unpredictable and tragic consequences.              URGENT