Court Case Against Bush in Brixton, Tuesday 18 Nov.
maqui | 19.11.2003 00:43 | Bush 2003 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | London
Geroge W Bush had a quite unwelcome reception in Brixton tonight tuesday 18 Nov. Minutes after Air Force One landed in Heathrow, a public court case against the US president took place. The defendant - GW Bush - was found guilty of many counts and crimes against humanity, therefore the jugde ordered the toppling of his statue and a cellebration afterwards. Here there are some pics of the proceedings.
The court case took place in a square in central Brixton. Over 100 people gathered around a sound system and a mobile cafe. Meanwhile local poets and musicians performed whilst the statue of Bush was set up. As a backdrop there were several giant projections some of which read "bastard president" and "regime change", as well as images refering to the links between war and the control of oil resources.
A few minutes after Air force One landed in Heathrow, the proceedings of the public court case against the US president started. After several people presented their cases against Bush, the jugde asked the popular jury whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty of different counts. The crowd shouted guilty! to each of them, which ranged from his leading role in the 'global war on terrorism' and his crimes against humanity, the illegal detention of hundreds of people in Guantanamo Bay, his role in the destruction of the environment, and the US support of the Israeli administration in its crimes in Palestine. At this point the Judge imposed the sentence of toppling his statue and start a cellebration afterwards.
Btw great live band at the end of the evening, live eastern european gipsy tunes to cellebrate the fall of Babylon! :o)
A few minutes after Air force One landed in Heathrow, the proceedings of the public court case against the US president started. After several people presented their cases against Bush, the jugde asked the popular jury whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty of different counts. The crowd shouted guilty! to each of them, which ranged from his leading role in the 'global war on terrorism' and his crimes against humanity, the illegal detention of hundreds of people in Guantanamo Bay, his role in the destruction of the environment, and the US support of the Israeli administration in its crimes in Palestine. At this point the Judge imposed the sentence of toppling his statue and start a cellebration afterwards.
Btw great live band at the end of the evening, live eastern european gipsy tunes to cellebrate the fall of Babylon! :o)
maqui
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Where is the defense lawyer?
19.11.2003 16:10
Uncle Sam
Defense Lawyer? bush doesn't grant those to Gitmo detainees
19.11.2003 20:11
marianne
American Citizens: bush's Hostages
19.11.2003 21:17
Please continue your protests against this dictator for the American Citizens who can do so no longer. All we have is our vote and the machines we're about to be given with which to vote are MANUFACTURED & OPERATED BY PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT bush!
Gretchen West
e-mail: boccigalupi@aol.com
thank you from Oregon USA
20.11.2003 00:06
Most of us here thought he was a mistake from the getgo and are real happy
that he hasn't fooled our cousins across the pond. Keep on it!
Love from Little Beruit (Portland, Oregon)
'soup
from quebec
21.11.2003 04:55
As you all know from the last century, dismantling an empire isn't easy, but it is worth it.
bob
I hope GRETCHEN WEST reads this...
05.01.2004 04:59
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand
by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public... Nothing but the truth should be spoken about
him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
- President Teddy Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918
Mary