Posted on 05/27/2008 7:15:20 AM PDT by MaestroLC
The author, George Monbiot(as in moonbat) said he plans to do this Wednesday after Bolton speaks at the Hay Festival. He will ultimately be unsuccessful as John Bolton's aura of complete and utter awesomeness acts as a force field of which he can't penetrate.....
We have all but forgotten the war with Iraq. We tend to see it now as little more than a “political mistake”, like the 10p tax fiasco or Labour’s mishandling of the byelection campaign in Crewe. The press and public attention have moved on and focused on more pressing matters, like the price of property.
......John Bolton first made the demand for a war against Iraq as a signatory of an open letter sent to President Clinton by the Project for a New American Century in 1998. In 2001 he joined the Bush administration as the hilariously-titled Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control in the State Department. He appears to have been imposed on the department by Dick Cheney, to play the role of Colin Powell’s minder.
He immediately started destroying international law, successfully waging war against the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the biological weapons protocol, a treaty on small arms and light weapons and, perhaps presciently, America’s participation in the International Criminal Court.
In April 2002, Bolton orchestrated the sacking of the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Jose Bustani. Bustani’s offence was to have offered to resolve the dispute over Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, by sending weapons inspectors to Iraq. Only when those who help to launch illegal wars fear punishment will future governments desist from launching them. As citizens I believe we have a duty to try to deter future war crimes. So I propose that we allow John Bolton to speak here, and then carry out a citizen’s arrest.
Section 24A of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 permits any citizen to “arrest without a warrant … anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be guilty” of an offence.
I do not want to advocate something I am not prepared to do myself. I was planning to stay at home on Wednesday, but I now intend to come back, listen to Mr Bolton speak, and then carry out this arrest. I hope that others at Hay might join me.
That phuckwit better watch his step, because I suspect John Bolton is more than capable of whipping his ass.
I wonder how he’ll do against the Secret Service contingent?
George Monbiot(as in moonbat) is nuttier than most moonbats... (and that’s saying somiething)
Why are we not demanding arrest of traitors like this moonbat guy?
Exactly. Bolton is scary enough I wouldn’t pick a fight with him.
Because this guy isn’t from the US?
What does the Secret Service have to do with protecting former Undersecretaries?
I’m not sure Secret Service is still guarding him, but no doubt he has guards, and I hope one of them throws this guy to the pavement with excessive force. :)
Just another liberal looking for undeserved publicity.
he should arrest ahmadinejad too.
and hamas
and hezbollah
and taliban.
/s
Snort!
Him and whose army!?
(Heh) Mr Monbiot is a fool.
He will find out that giving effect to a Citizen’s Arrest is much easier said than done.
He may also find out the hard way that Mr Bolton has a right to use reasonable force in defense of himself — which I hope Mr Bolton does vigorously if he is attacked by Mr Monbiot — and further that such an assault would be grounds for Mr Bolton to perform a Citizen’s Arrest on Mr Monbiot.
(That would be a delicious turning of the tables, ay.)
Finally, he may also discover that “uttering a threat” is a crime in the UK, and that the Law Lords take a dim view on a citizen who publicly announces his intentions to assault another — as an unprovoked attack on Mr Bolton would almost certainly be an assault.
If Mr. Monbiot attempts (he obviously won’t succeed) to make this “citizen’s arrest,” I hope he is arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping.
I’d go so far as to say John Bolton would whip his ass verbally, and then get to the rest of the task. Having listened intently to Mr. Bolton, I would say the Jackass in question would do well to listen and learn from someone with a firm grasp of reality, unlike what Mr. Moonbat projects.
Some nutcase in the Twin Cities has already gone to court to get an arrest warrant for GWB when he comes to St. Paul for the Republican convention.
And given the state of this country's judiciary...
That’s what I don’t see..
Where does a citizen’s arrest become unlawful restraint?
Didn’t Gomer try this on Barney (in the Andy Griffith Show)
for making an illegal U-turn?
I think I read it was Jonas Goldberg that originally penned "moonbat" as a response to one of Monbiot's scribings.
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