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.

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)

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

Delivering the Bush-Cheney Gang to a Contemporary Equivalent of Nuremberg.

Legendary Mohawk activist, researcher, and author Dacajeweiah (Splitting the Sky, aka John Boncore) spoke in Montreal on December 5th, 2009.



December 27th, 2009
WarCriminalsOut.com

Delivering the Bush-Cheney Gang to a Contemporary Equivalent of Nuremberg.

The man who tried to arrest George W. Bush, and why.

On March 17, 2009 Splitting the Sky performed his civic duty, acting with respect of the law and the integrity of his the heart, on behalf of himself and millions of people around the world, in his attempt to arrest the credibly accused war criminal and former US President, George W. Bush. In doing so, he proved his loyalty and integrity in upholding the Great Law (Kaianereh’ko:wa) of his people, the Criminal Code of Canada, and the Nuremberg Principles and other international agreements concerning accused war criminals.

Splitting the Sky invoked the principles of Civil Resistance which hold that, when those who are in a position of trust and have a duty to act fail to do so, the citizen has no choice but to act to further the cause of justice. He was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice to which he will face his day in court on March 8th, 2010 in Calgary Alberta.

Why is this important??

Because for the first time in history, Splitting the Sky now has 5 days in front of a judge in a court of law, in the Province of Alberta, to present evidence of War Crimes, Torture and Crimes Against Humanity, as well as the involvement of the Bush administration in the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark former Georgia State Congress Woman and Green Party presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney have accepted to testify in his defence. Leading 9/11 author Dr. David Ray Griffin has provided him with an eighteen page affidavit to be read before the court and former Canadian diplomat, retired professor and political writer Peter Dale Scott has also accepted to testify if requested, as have Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research, and former FAA Air Traffic controller Robin Hordon.

You may watch, download or embed the videos with the following links:

Activist Karen Spilak tried to lay charges against Bush in Montreal
http://www.archive.org/details/SplittingTheSky-KarenVsBushHerTortureComplaint

Prof. Tony Hall - BREAKING THROUGH A WALL OF POLICE PROTECTION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIME: THE TRIAL OF SPLITTING THE SKY AS A TRIAL OF THE CHENEY-BUSH-RUMSFELD CABAL OF WAR PROFITEERS
http://www.archive.org/details/SplittingTheSky-AnthonyHallAndTheCalgaryPrinciples
(read the article here )

Splitting the Sky - Part 1 The Man Who Tried to Arrest George Bush, and Why
http://www.archive.org/details/SplittingTheSky-Part1OfHisMontrealConferenceOf5dec09

Splitting the Sky - Part 2 The Man Who Tried to Arrest George Bush, and Why
http://www.archive.org/details/SplittingTheSky-Part2OfHisMontrealConferenceOf5dec09



PLEASE support Splitting the Sky. His defense will cost a lot of money. He needs and deserves your support.

See: www.SplittingTheSky.net for details on how to donate, to purchase T-shirts and Books, as well as to download DVDs to help raise money for him.


Thanks to Montreal 9/11 Truth for sponsoring this event and to Jacques Marcilles for the video footage!

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky endorses Splitting the Sky

Michel is the editor of GlobalResearch.ca

Cynthia McKinney, Gail Davidson, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Prof. Anthony J. Hall, Prof. Peter Dale Scott, Prof. Chossudovsky, and others are on board. Who's next?

It's time for others of stature within the Peace, Truth and Justice Movements, for Aboriginal Leaders, as well as authors, pundits, politicians, diplomats, lawyers, doctors, Hollywood actors, renowned musicians, with a conscience, world wide, to step up to the plate!

I need you to draw attention to my March 8th, 2010 court case and to the issues of War Crimes and Torture, to Accountability, and to the Rule of Law.

I need your support in every sense.



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PS SEE DOCUMENTARY: Splitting the Sky vs Bush: Civil Resistance in the 21st Century
(free streaming or download)

STS Legal Defence - I need your help !

Dear friends and fellow activists,

I am still in desperate need of financial help for my legal defense, to help use my case to highlight the hypocrisy and criminality of the Canadian government for allowing Bush into Canada, as well as 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 reign these criminals in.

Please read this message from my webmaster on how you can help to get my information out, as well as raise urgently needed funds to cover the lawyers costs. (DVD and T-shirt Info)


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Splitting The Sky in Montreal December 5th

Delivering the Bush/Cheney Gang to a Contemporary Equivalent of Nuremberg…

December 5, 2009

Lecture with Mohawk activist Dacajeweiah (Splitting the Sky)

On March 17, 2009 Splitting the Sky performed his civic duty, acting with respect of the Law and integrity from the heart - pursuing to arrest a credibly suspected war criminal and former US President, George W. Bush. Using the principles of Kaianereh’ko:wa Splitting the Sky proved his loyalty and integrity, upholding the Great Law. He was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice to which he will face his day in court on March 8th 2010 in Calgary Alberta.

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark former Georgia State Representative Cynthia McKinney have accepted to testify in his defence. Leading 9/11 author Dr. David Ray Griffin has provided him with an eighteen page affidavit to be read before the court and former Canadian diplomat,retired professor and political writer Peter Dale Scott has also accepted to testify if requested.

When: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Start time: 19h00
Location: Centre St-Pierre, 1212 Rue Panet(corner Rene Levesque east), salle 100,5mins from Beaudry metro
Admission: suggested donation of $10.00. The event is to raise awareness and help raise funds for his legal defence
after he was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice to which he will face his day in court on March 8th 2010 in Calgary Alberta.