[Peace-discuss] Fwd: i can't post to Peace but people should know about this.

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Chain-y should be picked up by the Game Warden for
Malignant Neglect in Impersonating a Human Being.


On 11/01/13 7:29, Karen Medina wrote:
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> Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security in 
> Washington, 05/21/09. (photo: Reuters)
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>   Will Dick Cheney Be Arrested for War Crimes in Canada?
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> By Jodie Gummow, AlterNet
>
> 30 October 13
>
> he international group, Lawyers Against War, has urged Canadian 
> authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for war 
> crimes when he arrives at the Toronto Global Forum this week, 
> Huffington Post reported. 
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/dick-cheney-canada-arrest_n_4175180.html?utm_hp_ref=politics>
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> The anti-war group wrote a letter 
> <http://www.lawyersagainstthewar.org/PolTor.pdf> to the Attorney 
> General John Gerretsen and Police Chief Bill Blair saying it was their 
> 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. 
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/dick-cheney-canada-arrest_n_4175180.html>
>
> Cheney was a "big supporter" of waterboarding and other unlawful 
> interrogation techniques during his vice presidency, in which 
> thousands of people were tortured, kidnapped and assassinated based on 
> his instruction.
>
> Last year, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal convicted 
> <https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/13> Cheney, as well as 
> former U.S. President George W. Bush and six other Bush administration 
> officials in absentia of war crimes including torture and cruelty.
>
> Cheney's visit is likely to spark large protests. In September 2011, 
> he was barricaded during large protests on a visit to Vancouver, where 
> demonstrators blocked 
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/26/dick-cheney-vancouver-protest_n_982410.html?just_reloaded=1>him 
> from leaving an exclusive hotel for several hours before police were 
> able to evacuate him. Subsequently, he cancelled 
> <http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/cheney-cancels-speech-in-canada-due-to-safety-concerns-1.781046> a 
> trip to Toronto in March 2010 citing safety concern, which led to 
> large protests.
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> -- 
> -- karen medina
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> Mark Twain
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