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CANADIANS SEEK DICK CHENEY’S ARREST FOR WAR CRIMES DURING UPCOMING VISIT

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Monday, November 4, 2013 00:43
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Friday, November 1, 2013 2:59 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week.

Lawyers Against the War argued in a letter dated Sunday that Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen have a duty to arrest Cheney "as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture.”

“Once Richard (Dick) Cheney enters Canada … Canada must ensure that Dick Cheney is either investigated and prosecuted for the indictable offence of torture in Canada or extradited to another country willing and able to do so," Lawyers Against the War's Gail Davidson wrote.

The letter contended that Toronto police are legally obligated to arrest Cheney to prevent him from “escaping to the United States.” The organization argued that Canadian law would legally allow authorities to do so:

Torture is also a crime under the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Once Dick Cheney enters Canada, the torture (both the torture he has admitted to authorizing and the torture that he is accused of) are deemed to have been committed in Canada ...

Cheney has said he was "a big supporter" of waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects during his vice presidency. He and former President George W. Bush, along with other top Bush administration officials, were convicted in absentia of war crimes last year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for torture and cruelty. The verdict was largely symbolic.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, also has accused Cheney of war crimes.

"Waterboarding is a war crime, unwarranted surveillance ... all of which are crimes. I don't care whether the president authorized him to do it or not, they are crimes," Wilkerson said in 2011.

Protesters of Cheney's September 2011 visit to Vancouver kept him locked inside the exclusive Vancouver Club -- where he had been scheduled to speak -- for seven hours before police could evacuate him safely.

Cheney canceled a trip to Toronto in March 2012, citing personal safety concerns. http://www.daytodaynews.com/world-news/canadians-seek-dick-cheneys-arr
est-for-war-crimes-during-upcoming-visit.html


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Sunday, November 3, 2013 12:05 PM

ELVISCHRIST


Drone strike should do the trick.


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Sunday, November 3, 2013 12:27 PM

BYTEMITE


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Drone strike should do the trick.




Oh, sweet irony and poetic justice - were that this universe still knew them.

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 2:30 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Weird...I posted that and didn't see all the messy "?"s...sorry about that--copied it from another source, same storry.

Yeah, of course nothing will happen, but I do love the story... Me, I'd be quite content if Bush, Cheney, etc., just couldn't TRAVEL anywhere because of the mere threat. That would serve them right (since it's hopeless to dream of anything actually being DONE to them, least of all in this country...).


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Sunday, November 3, 2013 3:15 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Quote:

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Drone strike should do the trick.




Oh, sweet irony and poetic justice - were that this universe still knew them.




Right-o. Perfect justice for him to be killed by drone strike without charges or trial, since that's exactly what your country has been doing to others for years. Goose, meet Gander. Gander, meet Hellfire missile. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, you're black, but that's only because of the charring from the missiles the U.S. fired at you to promote peace.

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 4:31 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Weird...I posted that and didn't see all the messy "?"s...sorry about that--copied it from another source, same storry.

Yeah, of course nothing will happen, but I do love the story... Me, I'd be quite content if Bush, Cheney, etc., just couldn't TRAVEL anywhere because of the mere threat. That would serve them right (since it's hopeless to dream of anything actually being DONE to them, least of all in this country...).




Yeah. Being confined to the USA would be real torture, huh?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:05 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Maybe not, but in long days past when you couldn't execute or confine someone for political reasons, you exiled them, so it works - kind of a longterm house arrest and sends a strong message about how unwanted and unwelcome they are in most sane countries.

-F

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:10 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Maybe not, but in long days past when you couldn't execute or confine someone for political reasons, you exiled them, so it works - kind of a longterm house arrest and sends a strong message about how unwanted and unwelcome they are in most sane countries.

-F



Good to see you're praising Soviet style Gulags and comparing free travel for innocent people , with in the confines of the USA to being exiled to Siberia.

I look around the world, and see very few 'sane' countries.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:34 PM

FREMDFIRMA


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I look around the world, and see very few 'sane' countries.


You obviously missed the joke there - any Anarchist considers the very concept of a nation-state to be insane, duh.

As for preventing free travel, did we or did we not just severely fuck with the President of Brazil about exactly that - so who are we to go calling names, hmm ?

Brazil condemns Europe for Bolivian aircraft diversion
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c97c044e-e3db-11e2-91a3-00144feabdc0.html

Imagine how WE might react if some other country forced down Air Force One in a similar fashion ?

-F

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Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:42 PM

WHOZIT


You libs really think they could arrest Cheney for war crimes in Canada? And you think I'M dumb? I bet I could sell you dopes ice at the North Pole.

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Monday, November 4, 2013 12:43 AM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by whozit:
You libs really think they could arrest Cheney for war crimes in Canada?





The question is, does Dick Cheney think that?

Has he canceled his trip?

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