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Title: John Bolton escapes citizen's arrest at Hay Festival
Source: Telegraph (UK)
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... 7s-arrest-at-Hay-Festival.html
Published: May 28, 2008
Author: Stephen Adams
Post Date: 2008-05-29 02:21:25 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 319
Comments: 16

Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Mr Bolton left the stage.

The former ambassador - a key advisor to President George W Bush who argued strongly in favour of invading Iraq - had been giving a talk on international relations to more than 600 people at the literary festival.

Mr Monbiot was blocked by two heavily-built security guards at the end of the one-and-a-half hour appearance, before he could serve a "charge sheet" on him.

After being released by the guards the columnist - a fierce critic of the 2003 American-led invasion - made a dash through the rain-soaked tented village in a failed attempt to catch up with Mr Bolton.

A crowd of about 20 protestors, one dressed in a latex George Bush mask, chanted "war criminal" as Mr Bolton was ushered away.

Mr Monbiot said moments later he was "disappointed" that he had been blocked from making the citizen's arrest.

"This was a serious attempt to bring one of the perpetrators of the Iraq war to justice, for what is described under the Nuremberg Principles as an international crime," he said.

During Mr Bolton's talk, to a packed-out audience, Mr Monbiot had asked Mr Bolton what difference there was between him and a Nazi war criminal.

Mr Bolton said the war was legal, partly because Iraq had failed to comply with a key and binding UN resolution after the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

On the war's legality, he added: "This is not my personal opinion, this is the opinion of the entire legal apparatus of the US government."

A citizen's arrest can be carried out under certain circumstances by a member of the public, if they believe a person had carried out a crime, under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Earlier, festival director Peter Florence had said they had sought legal advice and been told carrying out such an arrest would be "completely unlawful" given the circumstances.

He said: ""The Hay Festival encourages visitors to voice their opinions, but also requires that, in their expression, they respect both the law and the speaker."

A spokesman for The Guardian, for which Mr Monbiot writes a regular column, said he was acting in a "personal capacity".

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John Bolton makes Donald Rumsfeld look like Ron Paul. On top of being your typical neocon warmonger, he's also a Chritian Fundie nut.

It wouldn't surprise me if McCain wins the Presidency, Bolton will have a high cabinet post, possibly Secretary of State or Defense.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2008-05-29   15:03:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#15. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#13)

John Bolton makes Donald Rumsfeld look like Ron Paul. On top of being your typical neocon warmonger, he's also a Chritian Fundie nut.

It wouldn't surprise me if McCain wins the Presidency, Bolton will have a high cabinet post, possibly Secretary of State or Defense.

Indeed, what a good Christian John Bolton is!

1. www.larryflynt.com/bolton/

John R. Bolton Court Divorce Records Show His First Wife Fled Home When He Was Traveling Abroad

Publisher Larry Flynt's Questions Posed to State Department Regarding Corroborated Allegations that First Wife was Forced into Group Sex go Unanswered

May 11-LOS ANGELES-Court records concerning the divorce of John R. Bolton, the Bush administration's nominee to become the next ambassador to the United Nations, show his first wife fled the couple's marital home when he was traveling abroad in mid-August 1982. The records further show that she took most of the couple's furniture.

Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton's first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. Mr. Flynt has obtained information from numerous sources that Mr. Bolton participated in paid visits to Plato's Retreat, the popular swingers club that operated in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

"The first Mrs. Bolton's conduct raises the presumption that she fled out of fear for her safety or, at a minimum, it demonstrates that Mr. Bolton's established inability to communicate or work respectfully with others extended to his intimate family relations," said Mr. Flynt. "The court records alone provide sufficient basis for further investigation of nominee Bolton by the Senate." (Click here for court records). Mr. Flynt continued, "The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must be free of any potential source of disrepute or blackmail."

Mr. Flynt has contacted the State Department asking that they confirm or deny the allegations of Mr. Bolton's prior conduct concerning his wife and the alleged paid visits to Plato's Retreat. He has also called upon the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to conduct an inquiry into the very serious evidence concerning his first wife's fear of him.

Neither the State Department nor the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has yet responded to Mr. Flynt's inquiries.

The Hustler magazine publisher demanded an immediate response from Mr. Bolton. Mr. Flynt has personal knowledge about sources corroborating the allegations of nominee Bolton's misconduct, and he has called upon these persons to publicly come forward with their information.

"First wife Christina Bolton has understandably remained silent on what led her to flee her husband of 10 years and to take the family belonging with hers. A full inquiry would necessarily involve meetings with Mrs. Bolton to uncover the circumstances of her flight and the Committee should subpoena her in private session," Mr. Flynt said.

Mr. Flynt has no further comment at this time, except to ask that the press examine the attached court document pertaining to Mrs. Bolton flight from her home.

Mr. Flynt is awaiting further leads regarding Mr. Bolton's private behavior, at which point he will have more information to convey.

2. Read all about this chickenhawk POS in wiki and right web. Though John is a Luthern he loves Israel like a born again nutter.

rightweb.irc- online.org/profile/972.html

Bolton is an outspoken hawk on U.S. policy in the Middle East, and has since the mid-1990s been closely associated with a number of neoconservative organizations and pressure groups that are close to the right-wing Likud Party in Israel, including AEI, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG).

Along with a number of other Bush administration figures, Bolton served on JINSA's board of advisers before joining the administration. JINSA promotes the classic neoconservative fare, such as a "peace through strength" policy to support Israel, and works to build "strategic ties" between the U.S. military and U.S. military contractors with Israel. Other administration figures associated with this militarist organization that aims to strengthen the military-industrial complexes in both Israel and the United States are Cheney, Douglas Feith, and Paul Wolfowitz.

Two months prior to the Iraq invasion, Bolton traveled to Jerusalem to meet with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss strategies for "preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction." No mention was made of the widely accepted fact that Israel is the only nuclear power in the Middle East. Instead, the undersecretary focused on the Bush administration's disarmament targets following the planned invasion of Iraq. In February 2003, Bolton said that once regime change plans in Iraq were completed, "It will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran, and North Korea afterwards" (Foreign Policy In Focus, February 20, 2003).

Bolton received strong support from major pro-Israel organizations during the 2005 confirmation hearings, including from the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B'nai B'rith International, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and JINSA.

As the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bolton continued to champion controversial Israeli military activities. In early July 2006, he spearheaded opposition to a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have called for Israel to end its attacks and its "disproportionate use of force" in the Gaza Strip. The blocked resolution would have also called for the release of a kidnapped Israeli soldier. The resolution received ten votes, with four abstentions, and with Bolton casting the lone opposition vote. In October 2004, Bolton wielded the U.S. veto to block a similar draft calling for Israel to end all military operations in northern Gaza.

On July 15, 2006, Bolton also blocked Security Council consideration of a ceasefire resolution in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. In a FoxNews interview, Bolton commented: "What our job is in New York is to make sure that that right of self-defense is not abridged arbitrarily. But also, to try and do what we can to help the Lebanese government, which was elected democratically, and to see if we can help remove the cancer" (O'Reilly Factor, July 20, 2006).

Like the White House, Bolton characterizes Israel's campaigns in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon as part of the global war on terrorism. Rejecting the rising calls for a ceasefire and rejecting criticism of Israel's bombing of Lebanon, Bolton said that there is "no moral equivalence" between Lebanese civilian casualties of Israeli bombing and Israelis killed by "malicious terrorist acts" (AFP, July 17, 2006).

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