John Bolton

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30-May-2008
 

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Democracy Now: John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, escaped a citizen’s arrest Wednesday night as he addressed an audience in Britain. We speak to George Monbiot, the British activist and columnist who tried to arrest Bolton. Monbiot says Bolton is a war criminal for his role in helping to initiate the US invasion of Iraq.

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Mehdi

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by Mehdi on Mon Jun 02, 2008 01:35 PM PDT

Very creative of him. Good for him.


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Please post the audio-video again

by Anonymoush (not verified) on Fri May 30, 2008 09:21 PM PDT

ANTI-WAR campaigner George Monbiot has admitted he was “disappointed” he was unable to arrest one of George Bush’s leading allies at the Hay Festival.

The 45-year-old, who lives in Machynlleth, was bundled out of a reading by security guards after he tried to grab, and hand over to police, the former Under Secretary of State at the US State Department, John Bolton, for “assisting in the planning of a war of aggression”.

Mr Monbiot, an author and honorary fellow of Cardiff University, said: “Although I am disappointed that he got away, I believe this is the first time anyone has attempted to perform a citizen’s arrest on one of the architects of the Iraq war.

“I’m pleased to have been able to do my duty as a citizen and challenge him in this way. It seems right that Bolton should be greeted with an attempt to bring him to justice, rather than just the polite applause you normally find at literary festivals.”

Mr Monbiot was quickly stopped by security officers as he made his way to the stage on Wednesday evening in his bid to arrest Mr Bolton for what he claimed were war crimes.

He then tried to force his way back in but was stopped from doing so by a team of guards.

He bemoaned being forced to make “an undignified exit from the back of the festival tent”.

Meanwhile Mr Bolton – a senior fellow at right-wing think-tank the American Enterprise Institute, who was at the Hay Festival promoting his book Surrender is Not an Option – left the stage to get into a waiting car.

The fracas was one of the gentlest Mr Monbiot has been involved in. During seven years of investigative journeys in Indonesia, Brazil and East Africa, he has been shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in hospital in north-western Kenya, after contracting cerebral malaria.

It was unlikely his attempt to capture the politician on Wednesday would ever have been successful – he had previously announced his plan to catch up with the senior member of the Bush administration in The Guardian.


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