Mayor of London Suggests Bush Could Be Arrested for Torture If He Lands in London
On Monday's Democracy Now broadcast, taxpayer-subsidized Pacifica Radio anchor Amy Goodman promoted a newspaper column in the Daily Telegraph by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, suggesting that George W. Bush should be arrested if he lands in Great Britain on his book tour, much like former Chilean dictator Agosto Pinochet, put under house arrest in London in 1998:
It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a standstill, as book-signings turned into anti-war riots. The real trouble — from the Bush point of view — is that he might never see Texas again.
One moment he might be holding forth to a great perspiring tent at Hay-on-Wye. The next moment, click, some embarrassed member of the Welsh constabulary could walk on stage, place some handcuffs on the former leader of the Free World, and take him away to be charged. Of course, we are told this scenario is unlikely. Dubya is the former leader of a friendly power, with whom this country is determined to have good relations. But that is what torture-authorising Augusto Pinochet thought. And unlike Pinochet, Mr Bush is making no bones about what he has done.
Johnson is actually a member of the Conservative Party in England -- but in a 2008 column in the Telegraph, he endorsed Barack Obama for president, writing that Bush discredited both Western democracy and capitalism through the Iraq war and the financial crisis. The mayor sounded like Chris Matthews:
Obama deserves to win because he seems talented, compassionate, and because he offers the hope of rejuvenating the greatest country on earth in the eyes of the rest of us. All those are sufficient reasons for desiring his victory.
And then there is the final, additional reason, the glaring reason, and that is race. Huge numbers of voters, whether they admit it to themselves or not, will hesitate to choose Barack Obama for President because he is black. And then there are millions of white Americans who will undoubtedly vote Obama precisely because he is black, and because he stands for the change and the progress they want to see in their society.
After centuries of friction, prejudice, tension, hatred - you name it, they've had it - America is teetering on the brink of a triumph. If Obama wins, then the United States will have at last come a huge and maybe decisive step closer to achieving the dream of Martin Luther King, of a land where people are judged not on the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
So this is Pacifica Radio in a nutshell: George W. Bush should be arrested and jailed. But leftist cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal should be hailed as a hero on his birthday. Radical leftists live in a convoluted moral universe. But conservatives shouldn't have to pay for their radio shows.
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I would bet Boris those last
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:06pm.
I would bet Boris those last three yellow, rotting teeth in his disgusting shit stained mouth, he hasn't the balls to even face GW when he visits, let alone try and have him detained.
Liberal, pussy, assholes aren't any different around the world than they are right here in the good old United States of America.
They hide under their beds and yell stuff like this out to some other pussy, who puts it in the paper and on the radio. Then as is always the case, when all is said and done they are nowhere to be found or smelled.
PS: How the hell does the mayor of London get a name like Boris? That's almost as bad as an American president named Barack or something like that.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Boris
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:04pm.
Let me make this clear to you Boris. If former president George W Bush is ever arrested on charges of torture by you or any of your fellow supporters you will force some of us to retaliate and to do so with prejudice. Do you fully understand me Boris?
Maybe Boris should instead arrest his own National Health
Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 2:38pm.
Service for torture by depriving patients of water in the hospitals in his fair city. He may be an English "Conservative", but he is a typical do-gooder liberal as far as I can see. He wants to fix the world by some demonstration of how much he CARES instead of properly managing the area for which he has responsibility.
Mayor, arrest yourself now for the torture of patients in English hospitals. You dumb fraud, you.
Dennis Prager
When it comes right down to it.....
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:27pm.
All these morons are blowhards....they wouldn't have the balls to try it. If they did, it would provoke an international incident of epic proportions. Mayor of London, Boris the BS Artist,......ok big guy, put your money where your mouth is idiot, and see what happens to your sorry @$$!!
EDIT: to compare Bush to Pinoche is laughable. Bush authorized the waterboarding of 3, THREE people.......Pinoche tortured (and I mean REAL torture) and executed THOUSANDS!!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Was that the entire script of
Submitted by Free Thinker on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:32pm.
Was that the entire script of the interview? I couldn't tell what the mayor guy was going to charge President Bush for doing. Torture? When, where? To date there has been no proof of torture, not even an accusation. Who was tortured? How were they tortured? Unlike Boris I read the presidents book and nowhere in it does he "make no bones" about torturing anyone. I would think it would be a pretty big news story if President Bush was talking about authorizing torture. These facts seem to be conveniently left out of the interview. I know Amy Goodman would never challange her like minded guest but to even make such a statement shows what a moron this guy really is. Stay classy Pacifica!
wtf?
Submitted by xyzzypoofs on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:45pm.
So, G Bush protected not only Americans, but also ungrateful British sods like this guy by doing the right thing and now they want to throw garbage like that? No wonder British citezenry is almost completely displaced by Muslims, the British "leaders" are completely lacking in certain male organs necessary to keep the civilized world free. You used to be the greatest empire in the world, what happened to you people?
xyzz---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 10:36pm.
The Brits put idiots into positions of authority.
We, here in America, have followed suit.
MD
Wow. Who knew that being the
Submitted by eugeneromero on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:46pm.
Wow. Who knew that being the mayor of London wielded such great powers and international influence? I bet Michael Bloomberg will now think he has such great powers as King of the 5 Boroughs.
Toruture is....
Submitted by exLib on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 3:48pm.
The left will keep lowering the bar until a conservative President violates it.
Funny though that Bush is war monger, but Obama is a Peace Prize winner. Both sent innocent boys to die for what many would consider an unjust war.
Gitmo = still open.
Wiretapping = Still happening
Patriot Act = still in force.
All no problem now...
Is it too late
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 4:21pm.
to let the Germans have London?
No Real Surprise
Submitted by xraynova on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 4:46pm.
One could easily expect such a statement from the british, as the islamization of the UK proceeds at a deliberate pace.
Boris is just trying to solidify his position in his job as mayor... because come next election he may well be running against someone named ahmed, or jihad something-or-other.
War criminal
Submitted by timrfrench61 on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 4:52pm.
I would like to see Boris Johnson be arrested as a war criminal, as an accessory to Pinochet's torture, belittling "The Missing" thousands as morally equivalent to 3 terrorists who had a cup of water thrown in their face.
I would like to see Boris Johnson be arrested as a war criminal, for crimes against humanity for verbal torture of all humanity for implying defense of self and others is torture.
It is criminally stupid to make a moral equivalency between an information gathering technique that I have to deal with whenever I go to the dentist to what happens to people before they end up in mass. unmarked graves.
...he who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others...
Nicolo Machiavelli - The Prince, CHAPTER XVIIFirst of all, Boris, The No
Submitted by marpel on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 4:56pm.
First of all, Boris, The No Teeth, doesn't have the authority to have anyone arrested....but if he did, do you realize how many Texas Rangers would decend on his punky-a$$ town? Don't mess with Texas, Boris, or any of our citizens.
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
I lived in Britain for 4
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 5:14pm.
I lived in Britain for 4 years and listening to this idiot speaks volumes of the mindless liberalism that exists there. He'd arrest Bush but GB gives Muslims free pass to emigrate there all the while they denounce the very system that allows them to flourish there in the first place. The Muslims who live there are just as crazy as those that we target in Iraq and Afghanistan by calling for the murder of Westerners on the sctreets of London. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
some embarrassed member of
Submitted by sometimesright on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 5:28pm.
some embarrassed member of the Welsh constabulary could walk on stage, place some handcuffs on the former leader of the Free World, and take him away to be charged.
try it, Borinsky, try it. furthermore, can you say that you've EVER had a black king or prime minister? didn't think so. why preach about OUR race relations. what a maroon!
Pathetic queers
Submitted by Diesel on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 5:58pm.
Brits are so jealous of the USA they can't see, let alone think straight. They love the fact that America has been duped into electing the fraud owebama because they know just how much this POS will damage our great country.
Better get your weak little jabs in now 'cuz we're coming back and we'll be stronger than ever before!
Can't wait to see you ball-less, crying little yorkshire pudding eating pussies begging for our help to save you AGAIN!
Re: Pathetic Queers
Submitted by Burnside on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:54pm.
Diesel,
I'm a Londoner living in Austin. Been here eight years and I love it and am a proud American citizen. I don't mind that I'm a conservative in a liberal city, that's where I am so I accept it. No probs. I get on great with the locals and happen to love this country very much as well as my own.
Now let me address your post. Firstly, you are living in a fantasy world if you really believe that the UK is jealous of the US for any reason. The only reason my friends and family are interested in America is down to the fact that I live here and the population generally couldn't give a shit what happens here as it has no direct bearing on them. The UK doesn't care what America does or thinks, so deal.
Boris Johnson is a strange little man, but the fact that Pacifica used quotes from 2008 says an awful lot. Johnson doesn't like Obama from what I've heard, but he doesn't talk about him much as he has a BIG city to run.
Plus, and let me just tell your sorry ass this: If you ever said that I was a "pathetic queer" or that I was a "ball-less, crying little yorkshire pudding eating pussy" I'd knock you flat on your fat yank arse.
Clear? Good. Have some respect and behave like a grown-up you mouthy thug.
The Beginning Of A Great Relationship?
Submitted by rammingspeed on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 8:27pm.
I think Diesel's just trying to find a way into Londoner's hearts, Burnside. Maybe he'll try whips and chains, or gas masks, or auto erotic asphyxia next. Be prepared. Anything can happen in America!
Ramming Speed
Submitted by Burnside on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 9:44pm.
LOL! You have a fair point. Perhaps I was a little unsubtle too! Thanks for the laugh my friend!
Burnside
Submitted by rammingspeed on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 1:44am.
Glad to help.
Burnside---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 10:51pm.
It is always a good thing to stick up for yourself, your homeland, and compatriots.
I commend you.
I also ask you to travel back in time to the years 1939 through 1945, and ask yourself if you would state the same about what our English cousins would think about America, other than the famous line, "The Yanks are overpaid, oversexed, and over here."
I had two relatives who died on the beach at Normandy, not too long after sailing off from the Sceptered Isle.
Have a little respect, yourself, mate.
MD
Hmmm
Submitted by sentry_99 on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 8:19am.
I really have no problem with you being upset with someone calling you and your countrymen what diesel did. Like you, I get a bit sensitive when someone says something against my nation and it's people. On that note, if you want to knock a "yank" on his "arse", I will take offense when you throw the word fat in there. I'm glad you decided to throw that standard stereotype in with your rant. It comes off as....hmmm....NOT grown-up and makes you look like a "mouthy thug". Cheers and Jog on.
It's sad to see a nation as
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 6:00pm.
It's sad to see a nation as great as England fall into such mindless insignificence.
MA,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 6:04pm.
What is sadder still is that we are following right behind them.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hopefully we can pop our
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:46pm.
Hopefully we can pop our chute before we hit the ground.
The Liberals of the world are engaging in a suicide mission to destroy Western culture. This effort will also destroy them because it is only the Western societies that can accommodate Liberal thought. They must be so self loathing and have such hatred for the culture from which they sprang that they don't even have the capacity for self preservation.
Do you hear that ultra high
Submitted by Antisocial-ism on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 6:35pm.
Do you hear that ultra high R.P.M. whirring sound.
Well, That would be Churchill Spinning in his grave.
Those footsteps
Submitted by Ozconservative on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:02pm.
Those footsteps you hear behind you Boris, are those of Margaret Thatcher coming to smack you in the head with her handbag.
Of course this would never happen. The Mayor wouldn't
Submitted by virginia republican on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:46pm.
have the cojones and the PM would certainly put a stop to it. BUT, if it ever did happen, I have serious doubts that Hussein would say or do diddly about it. He might even welcome it and doing nothing would certainly strengthen his standing with his base. Sgt Schultz, Olberdouche and Tingles would probably celebrate.
Don't any of you even try and
Submitted by DaChew on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:50pm.
Don't any of you even try and act like you wouldn't love to see some poor British constable try and walk through GWB's security detachment to put handcuffs on him.
In fact, I'm begging Boris here and now to give that a shot. Come on Boris, do it! What could possibly go wrong? There's no way they'd ever see it coming, Boris. This plan of yours is absolutely fool-proof. You should totally do it yourself. You'd be hailed as a hero Boris. The entire world would stand and applaud. It would be the beginning of really big things for you Boris. Mayor of London is small potatoes, with a courageous act like this, you'd be launching yourself to absolute super-stardom on the world stage. You have to do it, Boris. Your destiny awaits.
We could also arrest obie
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 7:52pm.
We could also arrest obie on numerous Constitutionally questionable laws signed by him and many of his executive orders..
And vice versa
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 8:24pm.
Hay, Mayor, we could also arrest YOU, if you come here, for inciting sedition. Insisting that the President is liable to foreign laws and punishment, in opposition to our Constitution, is a form of sedition. Have you ever thought about that? After all, YOU'RE not protected by OUR freedom of speech rights.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
It's Johnson, Not All Of GB
Submitted by rammingspeed on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 8:34pm.
I don't think this dork-ass London mayor speaks for his whole country, any more than any number of dork-ass politicians here speak for America. Great Britain has been pretty good for us, and one crackpot doesn't get to speak for them all.
However, there are people in GB and here who agree with him and would literally kill Bush if they could.
A Proposition to Bill O'Reilly
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 8:38pm.
I think Bill O'Reilly should invite the Mayor to the US so he can appear on Bill's show and debate his "theory" about a foreign government arresting a US President. Then we can arrest the Mayor's seditious ass as soon as he lands! Sauce for the goose, and all that.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Remember the Bybee Memo's.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 12:54am.
We took great care to make sure we were not violating U.S Code or any international treaties we were signatory to.
This is just more mindless bluster of the type we heard from our left for 8 years.