Woops Colleges . I'm sure the spelling would be caught.

Paul R. The USA would not let me into the USA because of a DUI that was 35 years old. Nothing since.
That is because of BUSH'S idiotic HOMELAND SECURITY whose leader misspoke when she pointed her finger at Canada stating the 9/11 terrorists came into the USA via Canada. This is totally incorrect.
Since Bush has made Canada the bad guy we have begun to reciprocate. I guess it is tit for tat. Unfortunately Canada's border patrol has allowed many US citizens in that have hand guns. We live 1 mile from the USA and our city has had several shootings by these vicious animals.
Charlton Heston's followers. The gun is almighty in the USA. Now some collages are allowing students to carry guns. Whoopi more Columbines.

I am simply amazed that Edmonton has so many perps willing and able to put out money to listen to a war criminal. Hopefully they'll all go home afterwards and thank the Lord that he wasn't in charge in this country. That imbecile and his administration were so incompetent that the current president is still attempting to clean up the problems Bush left, before he can even think about implimenting his own agenda.

Bush going to Montreal? Wait a second butthead; not in Quebec ya don't place a damn one of your toes! Montreal should be entering real crisis mode, shortly, as soon as this jerk and war criminal arrives! Maybe the city will suddenly burn. I can't make it there, but will hope for strong protest.

The people who defended and welcomed Bush in Edmonton, woe! How sickeningly laughable and sad such people are; being able to make an awake person cry, laugh, choke, ... all at the same time.

Pressure Mounts on Canadian Law Enforcement Official to Arrest George
Bush for International Crimes and for Possible Involvement in the 9/11
Debacle

By Josh Blakeney
Media Coordinator of Globalization Studies
University of Lethbridge

21 October, 2009

Saskatoon Canada. About 300 protesters gathered outside of Teachers'
Credit Union Place
in Saskatoon to make a public display of their refusal to welcome
George W. Bush to Canada. Bush's luncheon address to a business
audience in Saskatoon was one stop in his three city Canadian tour.
While one branch of the protesters worked with police, another branch
emphasized the responsibility of the police to arrest George Bush.

This second group has aligned itself with Lawyers Against War. As it
did in the prelude to the former US president's speeches in Calgary
and Toronto, LAW delivered evidence to the relevant law enforcement
officials right up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. LAW has
documented the case that Bush is credibly accused war criminal who
should be arrested in Canada and tried for international crimes as
well as for violating the Canadian Crimes Against Humanity and War
Crimes Act.

At one point I, Josh Blakeney, who am here in Saskatoon covering the
event for Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, took
the microphone on the dissenters podium to criticize one of the
organizers who publicly thanked the police. I presented the case on
behalf of those who believe that Canadian law enforcement officials
are violating the rule of law, including the Nuremberg principles, for
not arresting former US president for his role in authorizing
aggressive war and torture. Following orders, it was decided at
Nuremberg and the United Nations, is no excuse for violating
international laws as Canadian law enforcement officials have
consistently done in refusing to arrest George Bush's during his
Canadian speaking engagements.

I also drew attention on and off the podium to the growing body of
evidence that parts of the US government may have been involved in the
controlled demolitions of the three World Trade Center towers on
September 11, 2001. A recent peer-reviewed article by University of
Copenhagen Chemistry Professor Niels Harrit et. al. demonstrates
conclusively that military grade nano-thermite was used in dropping
the three towers. From the day one of the post-9/11 era the US
government has stuck to its initial story that the three steel-frame
towers collapsed because of the impact of two plane crashes.

I pointed out that the contested events of 9/11 form the basis of the
US government's Global War on Terror which continues under the Obama
regime but with a different name. Most of the the war crimes and
crimes against humanity that LAW and other organizations have pressed
against George Bush came about because of aggressive wars justified by
an explanation of 9/11 that subsequent research and publication by
Professor David Ray Griffin and others have shown to be implausible.

The US government alleged on day one that Osama bin Laden and nineteen
Saudi hijackers with box cutters acted alone in creating the 9/11
debacle. This version of events would attribute the destruction to a
massive failure of intelligence, air defense, immigration, and
skyscrapper engineering for which no one has yet been fired for
incompetence or malfeasance.

In my short talk at the dissenter's podium in Saskatoon I called
attention to the importance of the upcoming trial next March of
Splitting the Sky, a prominent activist in the movement seeking 9/11
truth. The well-known Mohawk activist, who is also known as John
Boncore, was arrested in Calgary last March attempting to conduct a
citizens' arrest of George Bush.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aH6sUur_8&feature=youtube_gdata

GW bush was a singularly poor businessman and incompetent as a President> he ran up huge deficits and helped spark on of the largest Financial collpases in history so even if we ignore the war crimes, why would businessmen pay money just to hear him speak?

John Ralston Saul gives what I think the best most reasoned answer to this that I have heard.

Canada's Political and Business Elite still have the mentality of a "Colonized People". In the past one was not truly successful in Canada unless one was seen as being recognized in Great Britain by the crown.

Thus the scurrying over there to be SEEN and hope the Crown would notice how Capable you were and grant a Title upon you. Canadians did not recognize REAL telent but those of the Empire did!!

(Lord beaverbrook , Lord Thompson of Fleet etc Lord Black).

If you did not recive such recognition you were seen as a sort of "hick".

So the old British Empire Collapses to be replaced by the US Empire. These same elites in Canada do not think they have nmade it unless they make it big in Washington now and are recognized SOUTH of the border for their business acumen. Thus they feel that by hobnobbing with EX US Presidents and what is really the "Royalty of the United States of America" they themsleves gain more in the way of "Prestige". They are a bit envious as to how the families of Wealth in the US are talked about and all but worshipped.

Along with that is some of these same people recognizing GW Bush a boob, not all that bright and not all that Competent but due to wealth and connections able to become President of the Most powerful Country in the world. With that is a little bit of "My OWN talents just are not recognized up here in Canada..had I been American I coulda been Pres"

Canada has the legal right to seize war criminals. International law breaks down when any government fails to act.

I am sorry for Canadian citizens that their government is ignoring its responsibilities and letting Bush roam about collecting speaker fees for bad jokes about dog shit. It's a mockery. That's really what Bush was: a plutocratic moron who cheated in two elections and ushered in fascism and illegal wars.

We down south here have endured a lawless government for many years, and it continues under the Obama administration.

I had hoped for better - at least up in the Great White North. Canada still has a decent civil society. It's not wrecked by right-wing crazies and militarists so much as down here.

-TIA

The Canadians consider a dui a felony and a friend of mine was refused entry into Canada for an old dui. But I guess it is okay to be a wicked war criminal as well as a drunk.

The Canadian government is in on the scam. They're all wuzzes!

Ray Berthiaume

I am impressed that none of the protesters outside were arrested!

Denismcm I totally support putting him in a zoo. However GITMO would be more appropriate. It is the UN's responsibility to bring this murderer to justice. PROSECUTE PROSECUTE!

I can't believe Canada even allows this war criminal into our country. People here that got caught with a few marijuana in Canada or the USA are not allowed into the USA and we leave this torcherer freedom to be here?.
The USA are allowed to fly over Canada without any accountability. Living in Essex county south of Detroit I can tell you that there are thousands of airplanes monthly flying over spewing pollution.
Canada must provide a rooster of all passengers on any Canadian flights over the USA. They do not allow planes taking passengers to CUBA to fly over the USA.
The uninformed in the USA still believe the 9/11 terrorist came from Canada as did the uneducated head of their BORDER PATROL. Now due to the USA our immigration officers have to wear guns hopefully to check out the US citizens for GUNS. We have had several shootings here perpetrated by US citizens.
Kick Georgie porgie out of Canada.

I am embarassed to have a war criminal and known torturer like Bush in my country. He should have been arrested at the border and shipped off to the Hague

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

What's particularly galling about having this war criminal and confessed torturer visit Canada is that the Canadian taxpayer is on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in "security" costs.

It is unclear to me why I should be on the hook for protecting a man who deserves to hang. How can our juvenile and delusional minority government justify protecting the criminal AT PUBLIC EXPENSE rather than arresting him, as Canada is duty-bound to do under its Geneva Convention obligations to arrest and prosecute known war criminals? This is what universal jurisdiction is all about.

I say we should arrest and execute the war criminal and torturer Bush at the earliest opportunity. While he is awaiting trial, perhaps he could be caged by special arrangement in the Calgary Zoological Garden and viewing tickets sold to defray the government expense of trying and executing him.

Bush sez: "... a plastic bag on one hand, picking up what I had dodged for eight years."

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What? You're picking up accountability?

Or shoes?

Why is this piece of whale dung allowed to speak outside of a prison cell? He should be looking through bars at the rope that is going to send him to hell.

Good post kivals. I notice the businessman saw it differently. Everyone whose god is money will love the removal of all obstacles standing in the way of feeding their greed by whatever means is most expedient.

From "The Princess Bride":

Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Every time Bush uses the word "democracy," someone should give the above reply from Inigo Montoya.