CBC Adresses STS vs. Bush (Finally!)

Prof. Anthony J. Hall in studio interview with CBC Radio in Calgary (just as the trial was about to begin, CBC finally acknowledged the trial).




Great job Tony!


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Citizens Respond to the Organized Crime of War Profiteer

Professor Anthony J. Hall gives context and background on the trial of Mohawk activist, Splitting the Sky. (Interview with The Canadian Charger, March 07, 2010)



This is part 1 of 5 (all parts will play automatically in sequence)

Thanks very much to Tony and Josh for this!


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Splitting the Sky on the Unbought and Unbossed Show - March 17-2010

This is the first radio interview since I returned home from the trial in Calgary. I give the latest on the status of my court case. The show is 2 hours long and the interview starts around 20 minutes in, and lasts around 40 minutes. Show host Raymond Geisler also reads from an article or two concerning my case.




full details:
http://www.archive.org/details/UnboughtAndUnbossed165Mar172010


Many thanks to brother Raymond!


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Full video from U. of Calgary with Cynthia McKinney, Tony Hall and STS

Splitting the Sky Meets Cynthia McKinney at University of Calgary - March 9th, 2010



Splitting the Sky (aka John Boncore) is the man who attempted to arrest former President and credibly accused war criminal George W. Bush in Calgary on March 17th, 2009. STS was arrested by police and charged with "obstruction" and was on trial for this on March 8th and 9th, 2010. He pleaded not guilty, invoking a defence of "civil resistance". Former Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney came to Calgary to support STS and to present evidence in court on his behalf. The trial was to have taken 5 days, however, the judge closed down the proceedings after just 2 days and did not wish to hear from Ms. McKinney and several other defence witnesses. The case is now adjourned until June 7th, 2010 at which time the judge will bring in his verdict.

In this 2 hour meeting which took place in the evening of March 9th at the University of Calgary, you will hear Prof. Tony Hall, Cynthia McKinney and Splitting the Sky discussing what he did and why, as well as Q&A with the audience. This is unedited footage.

STS versus the War Criminals - Photo montage

STS Versus the War Criminals Edna Spennato 2010.

Photomontage made on 17 March 2010

Click on image to enlarge

On March 17th, 2009 Splitting the Sky (aka John Boncore) was arrested and charged with obstruction (as he fully expected) when he tried to serve George W. Bush with a citizen’s warrant, and to arrest him to stand trial for war crimes and torture. In doing so, he sacrificed himself for ALL of us who are concerned with Truth, Peace and Justice. His trial took place on 8 and 9 March, and judgment will be passed on 7 June 2010. The trial was closed down by the state after 2 days, though he was originally given 5 days to present evidence of war crimes and torture, as well as the involvement of the Bush regime in the events of 9/11, to justify his actions under the legal principle of “civil resistance”.

http://mundosonhos.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/splitting-the-sky-versus-the-war-criminals/

Update on Splitting the Sky's case from RT

I would like to express my thanks to RT for their interest in covering my case, while there has been no coverage from the Canadian / US media.




A special thanks also to Tony Hall, Cynthia McKinney, Josh Blakeney and everyone else in Calgary for their continued support. To all the rest of you who have been paying attention from afar and supporting me in other ways, including with donations for my legal defense fund, I extend my sincere gratitude.

NOTE: I will be on Raymond Geisler's "Unbought and Unbossed" radio show on Wed. March 17th, 2009. The show begins at 8 pm PDT / 11 pm EDT.

Tune in via the Internet at http://www.chly.ca

After that, I will need to take a bit of break from things to regroup while we await the verdict on June 7th, 2009.

Keep the faith brothers and sisters. This battle is NOT over!


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STS versus "W" in Court Hearings in Calgary

Citizen's Arrest of Alleged War Criminal George W. Bush in Canada by Carol Brouillet
Global Research, March 8, 2010

Dacajaweiah, John Boncore, or Splitting the Sky, is not a man of few words. If you read his hefty 653-page autobiography, it is very clear that he has lived an extraordinary life and has survived more than his share of violence, to find deep within himself a well of energy and spirit enabling him to not only endure hardships, but to serve his people and the land in the timeless struggle against oppression and tyranny. From the Attica Rebellion to Gustafen Lake to Calgary in 2009, when he attempted a citizen’s arrest of George W. Bush, “Dac” has consciously taken a leadership role to politically challenge the powerful forces that dominate the North American continent. Brutally arrested for his action, he earned his “day in court” to voice not only his defense, but “to highlight the hypocrisy and criminality of the Canadian government for allowing Bush into Canada, and to firmly establish the legal defense of ‘civil resistance’, the duty of citizens to act when our governments and their agents are derelict in their duty. This will be very useful in the future to rein these criminals in.”

Prior to Bush’s visit, the group Lawyers Against the War asked Canadian officials to bar entry or try Bush for his suspected crimes since Canadian Law prohibits “people suspected of any involvement in torture or other war crimes and crimes against humanity from entering Canada for any period and for any purpose. The most recent report of the War Crimes Program affirms the necessity of barring war crimes suspects from Canada: ‘The most effective way to deny safe haven to people involved or complicit in war crimes or crimes against humanity is to prevent them from coming to Canada.’”

Lawyers Against the War and protestors implored the government to do their duty and arrest Bush. “Dac” was carrying papers detailing the evidence against George W. Bush, which he had planned to serve him with on behalf of the victims and the people of the world, and he raised his hands to show that he was “non-violent.” Dac was then thrown down, stomped on, kicked, handcuffed and led off to be brutalized in a Calgary jail.

Monday, March 8, 2010, he will have his opportunity to put forward his case and present evidence, with support, testimony and affidavits on his behalf from respected scholars, including David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, and Michel Chossudovsky, as well as from former US Congresswoman, outspoken human rights advocate, and former Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. Professor Anthony J. Hall, author of The American Empire and the Fourth World and founding coordinator of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, stated last December:

“Splitting the Sky’s action in Calgary highlights the abject failure of law enforcement agencies to do their job. It highlights the unwillingness of police and those who direct them to apply the law equitably and independently…

“As the Nuremberg principles make clear, the implicated law enforcement officers cannot claim in their defense that they were merely following orders in deciding to arrest Splitting the Sky rather than George W. Bush.

“I propose that the trial of Splitting the Sky presents a platform for the elaboration of a new set of juridical rules and protocols to be known as The Calgary Principles.

“It has been six decades since the UN general assembly agreed to a succinct refinement of the principles that emerged from the trial of some of the top Nazis, as well as their juridical, medical, and industrialist accomplices. During those decades, there has been an intensification of the culture of impunity that immunizes those at the top of the hierarchy of wealth and power from any legal accountability for their crimes.

“Like the Tokyo trials of the defeated leadership of imperial Japan, the Nuremberg Trials were a classic example of victors’ justice.

“As long as the power politics of victors’ justice continues to protect the likes of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the rule of law remains a fraud. Under present conditions, the rule of law is a sad hoax designed to disguise the role of law enforcement agencies as protectors of the ill-gotten wealth often stripped from the branches of humanity that Frantz Fanon once labeled ‘the wretched of the earth.’

“The elaboration of the Calgary Principles will have to entail the quest for new language and juridical concepts to capture the full extent and complexity of international crime in the twenty-first century…

“Consider, for instance, the nature of the crime that takes place when whole populations are sentenced to endless futures of disproportionately high rates of genetic deformity through the saturation of their mother lands with depleted uranium. Consider the nature of a crime that would see a drug company covertly introduce a new disease strain in order to market a prepared antidote of vaccine to cure the disease it had disseminated.

“What names, what prohibitions, and what punishments do we need to respond to and discourage crimes that infect populations, deform populations, and even destroy whole ecosystems, making the renewal of all kinds of life, including human life, impossible to sustain?

“Hence it can be said that these days the most important agencies of the military-industrial complex and the national security state are the media conglomerates. These agencies of propaganda for an aggressive war bombard us on a daily basis with mental missiles of psychological warfare.

“The constant barrage of messages we receive that peace is to be found in war, that freedom is to be found in slavery, that wealth is to be found in indebtedness, and that truth is to be found in lies, is pulling humanity away from our fragile inheritance of reason, rationality, and enlightened discourse on the real menaces we face…”

Splitting the Sky’s action mirrors the actions of countless people in countless demonstrations that are taking place across the world where lives, land, forests, lakes, jobs, homes, species, and communities are threatened by powerful forces, making decisions in luxury and comfort, protected by men with guns from citizens trying to make their voices heard to protect that which they love and care deeply about. The trial will illustrate whether or not Canada is ruled by laws or by fear. Whatever happens, the struggle for truth, justice, and peace will continue.

For Anthony J. Hall’s entire article and speech, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16377 .
More details about Splitting the Sky are posted at http://www.splittingthesky.net/.
Splitting the Sky and Anthony J. Hall will also be featured on Carol Brouillet’s new weekly radio show “Community Currency” Thursday March 11, 2010, 5 pm – 6 pm EST, on the Progressive Radio Network.

SOURCE http://dailycensored.com/2010/03/07/the-trial-of-splitting-the-sky-versus-george-w-bush-and-the-calgary-principles/

Cynthia McKinney Meets Splitting the Sky - Calgary, Mar 9th, 2010

14 part video playlist (90 minutes)
Introduced by Prof. Tony Hall




will stream all 14 segments consecutively

Splitting the Sky vs Bush in Calgary

George W. Bush gets his day in court! STS vs. Bush trial goes forward

Judge Manfred Delong Meets Splitting the Sky
by
Joshua Blakeney
Media Coordinator of Globalization Studies
University of Lethbridge


Today the trial of Splitting the Sky commenced. Splitting the Sky attempted a citizens' arrest on credibly accused war criminal George W. Bush on March 17, 2009, and was arrested and jailed for doing so by police. Try as its representatives might to disguise their motivations with the kind PR spin doctoring we witnessed in the court today, the Calgary Police, the RCMP and its contractors were under the Harper government's strict political orders to protect the Alberta home turf of the current minority government that came to power as the holder of the Bushite franchise in Canada. Some have termed this historic proceeding as "The Trial of Splitting the Sky versus George W. Bush." From what I witnessed firsthand on day one, the government attempt to manage this highly volatile convergence of law and politics was an exciting affair.

The morning's proceedings were mostly filled with the testaments of the policemen involved in protecting Bush and arresting STS. Amazingly, when one of the policeman was asked why he had arrested the Mohawk activist, the official contended that he “was protecting STS” from Bush's henchmen. He went on to say that Bush's protectors carry “lethal weapons” and that they would in all have used them to kill the accused man. Rather than seek further information on Bush's private-Blackwater-style militia, the lawyers on both sides of the case passed over this startling revelation.

The presiding magistrate, Judge Manfred Delong, initially appeared, in my view, to be siding with the Crown prosecutor against STS's lawyer, Charles Davison. Davison's initial submission asked the court to allow for a distinction between “Obstructing a Police Officer” and “Preventing a Police Officer from Performing his Duty.” Davison's argument was disallowed by Judge Delong. From that point on, Mr. Davison appeared to be improvising in a defence on which the hopes of many in the anti-war activists are riding.

Certainly the turning point of the day came when STS took the stand to testify in his usual flamboyant, surprising and erudite manner. STS reminded the court that it was the same laws which the minority government eschewed vis-a-vis Bush which were invoked to keep British peace activist George Galloway MP out of Canada last March. STS opined: “All Galloway had been doing was bringing medical aide to Palestinians in Gaza, 2000 of whom Israel had massacred, but they barred Galloway from Canada using the same laws which they should have used to ban George W. Bush.”

READ MORE http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/2010/03/george-w-bush-gets-his-day-in-court-sts.html


(We are hoping for a call-in update on the trial during my radio show today. And you can listen to Saturday's interview with Splitting-the-Sky, Anthony Hall, and Joshua Blakeney here. - Kevin Barrett)

Tony Hall, Cynthia McKinney and STS live in Calgary

TUNE IN !!! (Tues. March 9th, 8 pm Mountain Time)

http://www.ourowncbc.info/opensocial/ningapps/show?appUrl=http://www.ustream.tv/ning.xml?ning-app-status=network&owner=0omfjjxz0oict

(sorry can't embed the feed)

http://www.ourowncbc.info/

RT - Splitting the Sky: Bush is a war criminal

TV interview from Calgary

RT: Citizen's arrest for President Bush?

Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky