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 A Canadian Member of Parliament has declared that U.S. vice president Dick Cheney should be barred from entering the country. |
Last week, Bush was forced to cancel a fundraising appearance in Toronto, Canada at Tyndale University College and Seminary, an evangelical Christian school. Students and faculty members protested and petitioned to keep him away from their school. Their petition said: “We believe that no amount of new money can justify profiting from a former figurehead whose policies led to the murder of thousands of innocent civilians.”
Bush assumed he would be welcomed by this university, but he wasn’t. Instead, they kept him out of Canada.
Days later, dozens of people, led by former FBI special agent turned activist Coleen Rowley, met George Bush at a Minnesota fundraiser with banners, signs reading “Wanted for torture” and loud chants of “Arrest George Bush!” and “Shame!”
In an article about the protest, Rowley posed the question, “When will Bush be ‘Pinocheted?’” She also asked: “Is it proper to honor this war criminal who launched pre-emptive, unjustified wars of aggression and ‘shock and awe’ that led to hundreds of thousands of people killed, mostly civilian ‘collateral damage’ and widespread destruction in the Middle East?”
Because of this broad-based and growing movement for accountability and justice, Bush’s world is getting smaller. He is canceling more and more events and is being dogged by passionate protests wherever he goes.
The same is true for Dick Cheney.
Following protests in Orange County, New York and Chicago, Cheney was met by another demonstration in the most improbable of places, conservative Simi Valley, Calif. at a book signing in the Ronald Reagan Library. Cheney thought he would evade protest here, but he couldn’t. The movement against torture was on to him. Dozens of protesters outside the venue denounced Cheney’s complicity in torture and demanded indictment for his crimes.
This is unprecedented. Former top U.S. officials are unable to travel in their own country without being challenged by our movement.
Let’s keep up the pressure. More and more people are joining the ranks of our movement and demanding indictment for Bush, Cheney and their gang.
We need your support to make this movement even bigger and stronger. IndictBushNow is initiating and joining protests wherever Bush and Co. travel. Your donation today will help us keep up the momentum.
Please make a donation now to IndictBushNow. Your generousity can help make ‘Pinocheting’ Bush and Cheney a reality.
- From all of us at IndictBushNow.org.
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