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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 open Court House
The open Court House

The Judge
The Judge

The Accused
The Accused

Guantanamo Bay 'detainee' puts his case against Bush
Guantanamo Bay 'detainee' puts his case against Bush

Bush statue toppled
Bush statue toppled

The remains of Bush's statue
The remains of Bush's statue

Cellebration and live music afterwards
Cellebration and live music afterwards


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)

maqui

Comments

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Where is the defense lawyer?

19.11.2003 16:10

Where is the defense lawyer? You have everything for a railroad trial.

Uncle Sam


Defense Lawyer? bush doesn't grant those to Gitmo detainees

19.11.2003 20:11

why would HE deserve one? at least he was granted a trial - far more than the Gitmo detainees have managed.

marianne


American Citizens: bush's Hostages

19.11.2003 21:17

I want to thank the people of Great Britain for expressing what Americans no longer can express. It has become illegal in our country to disagree with the Unelected Fraud bush. Please remember that THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DID NOT ELECT THIS EMBARASSMENT.

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
mail e-mail: boccigalupi@aol.com


thank you from Oregon USA

20.11.2003 00:06

I hope to live to see the day when the real puppet is tried and convicted!
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

glad the British are as pissed off as we are in Montreal, (we didn't elect him either) piss on bush, thank you.

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


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