Confirmed - George W Bush to visit Britain!

I DISLIKE BUSH | 27.09.2003 17:45 | Sheffield

It has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace that George W Bush will be visiting Britain on the 19th, 20th and 21st of November. This will be a state visit.

Confirmed - George W Bush to visit Britain!

It has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace that George W Bush will be visiting Britain on the 19th, 20th and 21st of November. This will be a state visit.

People will be outraged at this fêting of the warmonger in chief even as Iraqis are dying daily. The Stop the War Coalition will be organising demonstrations and a number of other events and stunts on every day of his visit to make it clear that he is not welcome here. Put the dates in your diary now!

We have produced a letter demanding that the British Government retract this invitation immediately. This letter will be available at the demonstration this Saturday and will also be available from the office and on the website. We want people to sign it and send it to 10 Downing St.

Let’s make it clear to this government that George W Bush is not welcome here and that if he does come, he will get a reception he will never forget.

I DISLIKE BUSH
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Stone the Crows

27.09.2003 18:25

It is a longstanding tradition of Elizabeth Windsor to court mass murderers and warmongers in her oppulent palaces, to give them an air of legitimacy and respectability.

Bush and Blair should be in the dock for the crimes against humanity being commited every day during their illegal occupation of sovereign nations and for ignoring human rights and defying every facet of International Law.

The Queen should be more discerning in the company she keeps, for if she flies with the ravenous carrion crows, she will be shot with them.

Magpie

Carrion Crows

27.09.2003 22:56

A focal point
Devil meets Devils Handmaiden at the Royal House of Shite
Plagued and microchipped Prince Harry a reminder that this is the best place to be on these dates
Let's fuck 'em

confront the murderers

28.09.2003 13:55

blair went to war...bush went to war...but about 400 people voted for that war in the uk parlament. The UN passed a pro-war resolution in november last year, even syria voted for that!! so did our darling jaques chirac (corrupt scum imo)...schroder wanted that resolution (womanizing scum imo) so did our other darling putin (the man about to destroy the russian enviroment).
i saw a slide show type thing a few months ago and that had an accurate reflection of who is the guilty (guilty? couldnt find a better word) party. Answer: everyone in the labour party cabinet etc...
we have a social democrat type leader that has taken us into into more wars than all the 18 years of tories misrule put together the labour party is guilty and we must confront these scum..the are the classic pro-imperialist party (think back to the liberal party of the 1700s and 1800s) they made alot of imperial actions.
friend and foe are an important issue ('substance before numbers'), for example one of the leading figres in the stop the war coalition is george galloway (womanizer and reformed stalinist), and what about the libdems (traitors to the peace movement). I know we can never be clean of scum like the above and there are leaches in every movement/organisation but we must be aware of them and confront not just the head of the war movement but the leaches and followers ('bad things happen when good people do nothing'), For example some simple actions anyone can do is:
sheffield has two members of the new labour cabinet...confront them and make their lives not so easy ('they shall not sleep easy in their houses why they are commiting terrible oppression elsewhere').

translator

Lets show them what we can realy do!!

28.09.2003 13:55

Its time to make History.

Cat

more can be doneb

28.09.2003 19:13

translator your sorted comment needs a seconding.

Apart from your comment on what to be done locally I must let you know that the Mayor of lodon is hosting an event at the city hall to coincide with the fucker's visit. Every peace loving citizen is welcome (obviously if they are not busy doing something more important towards this state visit)
Apparently this was the key remark from Ken on the demo yesterday and it is simply unbelievable how it went unreported.
Starting with your local IMC publicity and organisation is badly needed imho.

The national one definitely hastoo many ego wankers over STWC, SWP etc. or more worryingly is infiltrated to the core by agents of darkness.
It needs participation to move its butt.

ram

Saying "Jump"

28.09.2003 20:43

Someone from STWC said jump and 100,000 jumped, is that such a bad thing. You know, if you want a demonstration that size, someone must step forward and say "this is the date, lets do it". Someone has to lead. I know some of you like your total lack of coordination, which is great for a website or something like DSEI, but many people want fixed details. How many people would have refused to go to DSEI when they heard that there were plans for "small actions" as opposed to big demo's? It certainly made me nervous. Instead, we got 100,000 people who didn't wind the police up too much, and a good day was had by all. Everyone knows that Political Rally's are there for two reasons:
1 - So we find a small number of facts out.
2 - So we all clap, and hear ourselves clap.
I'm afraid that's about it.
Graham

Rebel W

lets get our own shop in order

29.09.2003 17:53

I dont have a problem with 100 000 people marching in london and i would march with them (as i did on feb 15th) but i refuse to march with those i mentioned above i.e. the hyporcrites and i consider it counter productive to march with them when i could be giving david blunket an earfull instead (as i did on friday night).
Tony benn is a sorted bloke and he has my total and utter suport, mjor ken livingston is an ok guy, as are many other in the peace movement (the pacifists, cnd etc..) and in my opinion the fluffy liberals give us a bad name, the anti-war movement is not and should not be a guardian reading niche middle class educated elite thing. Lets not forget the educated elite are the dominant class in this country as they will be in iraq when it is handed over to the 'iraqis' i.e. a new iraqi middle class educated elite (as it is already been done).
As a way forward fist we need to look at things differently and see the shit from the muck, (i had an email the other week that said 'the company they keep' it was a reference to the people that sponsor the labour party conference i want to change that to 'the company *we* keep' who is in our ranks?). Secondly we need to act differently (dont be automaticly subservient to those that have the education, thirdly we need to create alternative social arrangements (what ever suits you and your community and not the done thing). These are only surgestions and they are not orders my motto to others has always been 'do as you please'.

translator

Organise an international demo and small actions

29.09.2003 21:42

Let's organise three days of international demo's and actions in London. people from all over Europe will be there if you start now. We in Belgium are intersted. Let's kick them motherfucker's ass!

dirk van mechelen

Correction --Need to focus

30.09.2003 12:21

There is only one motherfucker and it is the Dubya pigscum.

Every word must be measured as the potential pull any effort in different directions and achieve little is always there.

Dubya is such a central pigscum there is a piece for everyone though. Lets focus on kicking Dubyas ass only.

ram

do be so simplist

30.09.2003 15:03

i am sorry but it is just too simplist to say that bush is the only one conducting this war!!!
what about blair?
what about the 200 or so labour mps that voted for the war (they could have stoped it)
what about the entire republican and democrat parties that supported the war almost unnanomosly!

translator

Dubya only

01.10.2003 13:32

Well the thing to bear in mind is .......... it is Dubya only who is coming over.

As soon as one tries to include more targets fpr protests everything gets complicated and diluted.

ram

All welcome

03.10.2003 15:37

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leeds/2003/10/278383.html

If you are not walking, cycling

http://www.carlberry.co.uk/rfnshowr.asp?R=11502

ram

Bush's Visist

17.10.2003 16:00

Hi all,

The one major obstacle to all our or indeed any efforts will undoubtably be the media.

Something that refuses to be ignored, is the only guaranteed way that the media will cover the events, or demonstration in any detail or deepth.

I think there are many people that are sympathetic to the stand against Bush but short stunts only enable the media to cover, report and also give the impression the wish to deliver of a small number of 'loonies'. The same sort of thing that has been portrayed for the last forty plus years.

I think that maybe any demonstration should be art based so encouraging comment from differing perspectives and people. I am sure even a smalll groups of people could attract a great deal of attention for positive use.

Manipulating the old adage the best form of defense is sometimes attack, non violent of course, but the present day media and technology overs us up an opportunity unheard of in past decades.

Sorry if i'm rambling. But i would love to see a series of staged events that somehow causes disruption to the visit. I am sure that all of you have the ability to either think of, creat or stage such events.

Many regards and peace to all.

pc

ps. please string some possible 'stunts' that could be used on the day.
Something arty?
Something causing delay?
Something spetacular?

ps. resistbush at yahoo groups has a few people knocking around. Lets trade some ideas (in unspecific detail) :)

pc
mail e-mail: visual_cluster@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for the help...let the isolation begin!

13.11.2003 00:33

Just a thought. As a typical American of average means and intelligence, it has become clear, even to me, that the good old days of the western alliance are quickly drawing to and end. We are all going to have to "go it alone" sometime very soon. I think in the case of the US, we are already at that point. The world has made it pretty clear, in survey after survey, that we are considered much more of a "problem" than a solution..a country to be hated and ridiculed...as our Muslim friends say..the Great Satan. Fortunately most Americans are isolationists at heart..it is our heritage, it is how we evolved, and it is where we are comfortable. We're heading back home. We will miss you...but we will get over it pretty quickly.

You poor folks in the EU have a harder path to follow. Read the news and cry. France and Germany and Russia make up a very sad, sorry, alliance which is slowly running over the rest of the EU. If you think Bush is bad, you haven't fully used your imaginations. Just ponder for a moment where you will be headed as you start your adventure of "going it alone".

So, instead of wasting your time and State money by protesting and acting like monkeys, why not just stand politely, give a brief wave out of respect for the "old days" and walk away. Your message will be heard and captured by the media for all of the world, including those of us in "Amerika" which defines, I believe, how you see us.

You lifes should start getting better soon.

Rick

Expensive dreams

13.11.2003 03:05

As another typical American of average means and intelligence, it has become clear, even to me, that the good old days of post-WWII US economic dominance are also quickly drawing to an end. The previous poster asserts that "most Americans are isolationists at heart..it is our heritage, it is how we evolved, and it is where we are comfortable. We're heading back home."

Ah, "heading home", now that is a lovely, made-for-TV sentiment. It does ignore the small matter of the coming debt crisis, and the US economy knee-deep in shit, with a terrible credit bubble having been created by our foolish, grasping, short-sighted politicians, and the greedy fools that voted them in. And just like locking yourself inside your house doesn't keep the bailiffs out, neither will isolationism cure the US' pending financial disaster. We've all got to pay up sometime.

We might get over our reliance on enormous loans to the rest of the world pumping air into the sorry balloon of our economy, eventually, but it will be neither pretty nor quick. It will require us to swallow our pride, as we're gradually doing in Iraq, and admit that maybe "going it alone" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

So instead of lecturing foreigners on why it's wrong to protest when our war criminal descends on their capital, demanding that they close part of it down for three days, why not just stand politely, and listen for a change. No one here gives a hoot in hell what the US media thinks about it: they just want to drive the bastard out, and deny him the dignity of the hero's welcome he craves.

Their lives will indeed start getting better soon, but first they need to stand up to the bully. When enough countries do, the bully will fall, and the rest of the world can start to rebuild on the charred ruins we've left them.

Dave, working in London