Mass Demonstration: 12:00pm, May 2, 2011 in front of Surrey Hall

Our organization endorses this demonstration, organized by Splitting the Sky, which is the first of three demos leading to the mass demo in front of Sheraton Hotel in Surrey BC on October 20, 2011 where Mayor Dianne Watts has welcomed war criminals George Bush and Bill Clinton to speak.

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In March 2009, native warrior Splitting the Sky, broke through the police line in Calgary and attempted to arrest George W. Bush for crimes against humanity and violating Canada's immigration law. In doing so, he captured the public imagination and shamed the police and our elected officials.

First our police stood by while George W. Bush – then a credibly accused but now a self-confessed war criminal – walked unopposed on Canadian soil. Only when a Canadian citizen attempted to defend our laws did the police leap into action: to arrest Splitting the Sky, defending injustice and repressing the righteous! 

From the other side of the border things look as bad if not worse. Consider the words of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark: "e dare not blink at the magnitude, diversity and pervasive impact of the known crimes committed by the Bush administration. Wars of agression in Afghanistan and Iraq, the supreme international crime, have killed hundreds of thousands outright, wounded, sickened and malnourished many more than they have killed and sent millions as refugees to neighbouring nations while rendering homeless millions more. Indiscriminate killing of civilians, summary execution, arbitrary seizures of people and property, secret unlimited detention and torture have been authorized, widely practised and both defended publicly. President Bush, the self-proclaimed "decider," reached for unlimited dictatorial power whenever he proclaimed the national security was threatened. And he considered himself above the law where domestic affairs were concerned even as he signed Acts of Congress into law."

Clearly this man, George W. Bush, is among the most egregious of war criminals. As such he is forbidden from entering Canada under Canadian law - unfortunately Conservative Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was deaf to protesters' cries of "defend our laws" and refused to act to defend our borders. Yet days later he invoked the same law to ban peace activist and former British MP George Galloway from entering the country. One has to wonder if men like Kenney and our Prime Minister, Steven Harper, have any interest in defending our laws or sovereignty - because it appears that their only desire it to appease the American empire.


Despite all this, Surrey May Dianne Watts has had the temerity to invite Bush to Canada yet again, this time on October 20, 2011, and this time in our city.


But this time we will be ready. This time we will see that our laws are enforced, our sovereignty defended, and our sense of justice satisfied. George Bush must be prohibited from entering Canada. If he does cross the border he must be arrested. And if he makes it to Vancouver then it must be made clear that those who hosting him - like Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts - are complicit in war crimes.


Join us at noon, May 2, 2011, in front of Surrey Hall as we send our message loud and clear.


Splitting the Sky