Splitting the Sky in the mainstream media!

Protester to fight charges

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- A B.C. political activist arrested in Calgary during a protest against former U.S. president George W. Bush says he is going to fight the charge against him.

John Boncore, an actor who often uses his aboriginal name Splitting the Sky, was released but faces a charge of obstructing a peace officer connected with the March 17 demonstration.

The 57-year-old* Chase, B.C., resident was at the front of a line of protesters objecting to a visit by the former president, who made his first public speaking engagement in Calgary before 1,500 people at a $400-a-plate luncheon.

Boncore is a 57*-year-old one-time activist with the American Indian Movement who came to prominence during a 31-day standoff between the RCMP and Natives occupying a ranch they said was sacred land at Gustafsen Lake, B.C., in 1995.

Boncore, one of four people arrested in Calgary, said he told the RCMP that Bush should be arrested as a suspected war criminal.

Instead, he said they pushed him to the ground.

"They smashed my head on the ground and broke my glasses and gave me a mild concussion," he said. "Snipers came out from everywhere."

Video of his arrest circulated on the Internet.

"I'm getting kudos from all over the world," Boncore said.

He said the arrest has only heightened his determination to see justice served to those many feel are responsible for violations of human rights in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general under Lyndon B. Johnson and now a human rights advocate, is representing him.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2009/03/27/pf-8902701.html

NOTE: in the original article they state that my age is 67. I am in fact 57 years old, so I made this one correction to what they reported.


STS

Sample videos from my acting career

Splitting the Sky, aka John Boncore (the actor) - sample clips

Video Clip #	Description	Length
1	Deep Water - Dramatic Feature	1.75 Min
2	Alice, I Think - Episodic Comedy	1 Min
3	Men in Trees - Episodic Comedy	1.5 Min
4	Mindless Love - Dramatic Feature	1.75 Min

I most recently, I played the part of "Predator" in a movie called: The Last Rites of Ransom Pride (2009)

CMT Movies reported:
"A movie co-written by Ray Wylie Hubbard is in the works and two of country’s most eclectic stars are reportedly on board. Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson will both play villains in The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, a Western-style flick set in the early 1900s. I’ve been watching a lot of old movies lately and sometimes I really have no idea where the story will go next. That doesn’t seem to happen much anymore. To that end I hope this one stays true to some of the old traditions of the genre. With the studio saying it’s going to be “Sam Peckinpah meets Quentin Tarantino,” there may be a good chance of that. Both Yoakam and Kristofferson are accomplished actors and have plenty of experience playing bad asses, so the bloodthirsty minister and grizzly outlaw they play in this one should be pretty convincing."
http://blog.cmt.com/tag/the-last-rites-of-ransom-pride/

and yes, I am still looking for work, and need it!

More info available at www.castingworkbook.com



STS

Faces of Fascism: Calgary, March 17th, 2009

Welcome to AlberTexas, where the wicked are welcome and the righteous are punished.

As heavily armed Calgary City Police Officers, dressed in black, obstruct my attempt to do THEIR job, and to do MY civic duty, to arrest the credibly suspected war criminal George W. Bush, Calgary's fascist elite look on and laugh in joyful triumph, as I am thrown down, stomped on, kicked, handcuffed and led off to be brutalized in a Calgary jail for 24 hours, and later to be charged and tried, all at the expense of the average Canadian citizens and taxpayers. The good people of Canada also had to endure this heinous spectacle and travesty of justice, and an assault on their international reputation.

Did I forget to mention the $500 bail, the conditions on my personal liberty, travel costs, and the cost of my defense team? But what, I ask, is the price of freedom, liberty, and democracy? And what are you prepared to do to keep them, or shall I say, take them back? Will you sit idle and silent while the elite few have their way with you? It may be me in that picture, but it is also YOU, if you do not soon take a stand for truth and justice, and for "peace, order and good government".


Picture courtesy of Travis Dickie - (for non-commercial use only)

Suit and Tie: $1,000.00
Gucci Shoes: $500.00
Sunglasses: $150.00
Lunch with Bush: $400.00

See citizen arrested for trying to expose us: PRICELESS!

Fascism also has its price, AND its just deserts boys and girls.


As Neo said in the Matrix movie:

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world ... without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries [and without punks like you]. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

This was not the end. We are just getting started.



STS
and the Tyranny Task Force

NOTE: the piece of paper on the ground is one of many I had with me detailing the evidence against George W. Bush, which I had planned to serve him with, on behalf of the victims and the people of the world. It was in a bag which was never returned to me. That bag also contained some of my DVDs and CDs of my previous presentations about my involvement in the 1971 Attica Rebellion and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff in 1995, as well as my investigations into the 9/11 Money Trail. I hope you cops and agents enjoy viewing them and that you learn just who and what it is that you are protecting. I hope you can still look yourselves in the mirror today, and I invite you to stop protecting criminals and to join the side of Truth and Justice, to begin protecting the people who pay your wages, and begin arresting the real criminals. Your children and grand children will thank you for it.


Listen to my story:

Archive mp3 of the Unbought and Unbossed Show with Raymond Geisler and 'Splitting the Sky' on March 25th
UnboughtAndUnbossed-Geisler-STS-Mar-25-2009.mp3 (full 2 hours)

Please see the other posts on this blog for information on how you can assist me.

Audio file courtesy of warcriminalsout.com

Picture courtesy of Travis Dickie for Non-Commercial Use Only!

Splitting the Sky vs G.W. Bush - first day in court

Hello Everyone!

I went to court today and I had it put over to April 16th, 2009.

The only charge that was read out in court was "Obstruction of a Peace Officer", so it appears that they are already backing away from their original allegations and charges, that I had "assaulted police officers" and "obstructed justice", which of course, I did NOT. Rather, it was I who was "assaulted" (repeatedly) and it was I who was "obstructed" in carrying out my civic duties and moral obligation to arrest George W. Bush. It was THEY (and their political masters) who were subverting the natural, legal, and appropriate course of justice with their own overtly illegal actions, as well as their criminal negligence, by abdicating their duties and responsibilities under law and the principles Nuremberg, and of natural law.

Before the proceedings began, I spoke with a few lawyers who had come out on their own, and who were anxious to handle my case because of the massive exposure it is getting worldwide. Unfortunately, none of them were ready, willing or able to argue my legal defense from the position of "civil resistance" as postulated by the "Lawyers Against War" and by Prof. Francis Boyle (see my previous post). Hopefully these lawyers will look at the info I gave them and consider it. In the meantime, however, it seems I will have to continue to pay someone to argue these point, and I absolutely need your financial as well as moral support.

By the way, my thanks again to Gail Davidson of the Lawyers Against the War. We will meet soon in person to discuss all of our options.

There were a lot of supporters in court today and I wish to thank them all from the bottom of my heart. It appears that this core group may become the organizing body for the long range struggle of what I call the "Tyranny Task Force".

Thanks, by the way, to Tracey for the "Tyranny Response Team" T-shirt he gave me last Summer in Vancouver which inspired that. I wore it proudly on September 11th, 2008 when I spoke outside the House of Parliament during the 9/11 Truth "March on Ottawa" event (the one that Mr. Harper skillfully avoided by dissolving parliament and calling an election only days before).

Our goal is to advocate an ongoing call to the citizens of Canada, and the world, to act universally, to apprehend and to bring to justice, international terrorists, like Bush, and the syndicated war criminals (members of his former regime, their pay masters, and their minions) who are wanted for War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, including TORTURE (just for starters).

We will be there again to greet Ms. Condi Rice when she comes to the University of Calgary in May. Hopefully, by then, many more people will join us and help to raise the bar, and with peaceful, non violent action, attempt to arrest her, as well as to expose and criminally indict the university, sponsors, facilitators, government members, agents and police with war crimes, and Complicity in War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, for "aiding and abetting" the "credibly suspected" and identified International War Criminals, and their syndicate.

A movement has begun here in Texas North!

To all you Cowboys and Girls, I bid you Happy Trails!

But beware, Splitting the Sky is on your tails!
















































Some related new stories:

Prosecuting the Bush Administration’s Torturers

By Andy Worthington


As published on the website of the Future of Freedom Foundation.

It’s a sign of how much the Bush administration skewed America’s moral compass that we are currently facing the possibility that the only way to bring the torturers to account is through a “Nonpartisan Commission Of Inquiry” -- essentially, a toothless truth and reconciliation commission -- of the type proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Click here to read more


AND ....

Cheney war crimes probe would be 'shortest in history'

(excerpt)
President Barack Obama said all the right things on 60 Minutes, according to Jonathan Turley. But no mere verbal rebuff to the former vice president will see the law upheld.

If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, "it would be the shortest investigation in history," Turley said on a Monday episode of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.

President Obama, appearing Sunday on the CBS news program, said the former vice president's policies on the treatment of prisoners captured in President Bush's terror are "unsustainable" and had caused "incredible damage to our image and position in the world."

"The reason Obama seems very irritated by it is that he is responsible for the conversation," said Turley, a constitutional scholar and George Washington University professor. "Because he's the one that is blocking a criminal investigation of Vice President Cheney and President Bush and other Bush officials. It is like a bank robber calling up and asking him to debate bank robbery."

It was only Dec. 15 when the former vice president admitted he approved the interrogation tactics which many, including the international Red Cross, have called torture.

Even Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) called Cheney out for his remarks.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_get_low_grade_on_0324.html



STS

Splitting the Sky states his case

I was on the "Fair and Balanced show" on NO LIES RADIO with Kevin Barrett, along with a true 9/11 Hero William Rodriguez. This was areal honor for me.

Unfortunately, I had to do this from a payphone on the street as we were waiting for a new phone line to be installed here in Calgary.

Here is the audio archive mp3


Fortunately, the new phone number for donations and assistance is now up!
Please call: 1-403-668-0598 (also to arrange interviews)

You can send checks or money orders (Canada and USA only) to:
John Boncore (name on checks)
PO Box # 1492
Chase, BC
V0E-1MO
Canada

For a minimum of $20 donation, we will send you a DVD with 7 presentations
(packed with many hours of viewing)

Call or e-mail us if you want to arrange a wire transfer: splittingthesky@yahoo.com


Later, I was a guest with the fearless Truth Teller, Dr. Bill Deagle of the Nutrimedical Report.

I don't have the mp3 file yet, but you can here the show repeated in it's entirety until the new show starts on Wednesday. It is a 3 hour show. I was on for the full third hour.

I was able to cover some of my history and where I am coming from constitutionally and legally, and was also able to read part of the speech I was to give in Calgary, but which I could not, due to my arrest.

Listen here: On Demand 24 hour 3 hour show continuous rebroadcast
(The show also includes Joan Veon, and Harvey Schlanger of the LaRouche Foundation)

Download the mp3 archive of my interview here (with commercials edited out)


Press Conference and Rally is tonight in Calgary. Hope to have video of it for you soon.

Please help me get my information out! It is not about me, but about the real criminals, exposing them, and bringing them to justice.


STS



Some background reading on my legal position:

legal doctrine of "civil resistance" as opposed to "civil disobedience"

Google search results:

Francis Boyle's "Law and Resistance"

Such civil resistance activities represent the last constitutional avenue open to ... Civil resistance is the last hope America has to prevent the Bush Jr. ...
www.nightslantern.ca/fab.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney

One of the initial things that Professor Boyle does in his excellent tome is to distinguish between the terms “civil resistance” and “civil disobedience. ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8104 - 53k - Cached - Similar pages

Defending civil resistance under international law / by Francis ...

Available in the National Library of Australia collection. Author: Boyle, Francis Anthony, 1950-; Format: Book; xxii, 378 p. ; 25 cm.
catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/27317 - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

[PDF]

Vol. 2, Issue 1 154 L R : T R C P ’ R * Professor Francis A. Boyle ...

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Francis Boyle is professor of law at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Champaign. .... engage in acts of civil resistance designed to prevent, impede, ...
www.thecritui.com/articles/Boyle.pdf - Similar pages

mediaLeft - Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance ...

It's a urgent call to action and demonstrates that "civil resistance ..... Ramsey Clark and Francis Boyle launched a national campaign to impeach GHW Bush. ...
medialeft.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=455&Itemid= 283 - 77k - Cached - Similar pages

Upcoming rado show appearances

Hi Friends,

I was on the Corbett Report again this past weekend.
The show archive should be posted soon here.

Upcoming Live Shows:

MONDAY

Chris Cook's Gorilla Radio, Monday, March 23rd, 5-6pm Pacific Time.

In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable.

Listen Live on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca.

Gorilla Radio is a fast moving, weekly, cutting edge radio show from Victoria, BC, dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

Chris also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com

***

TUESDAY

First Voices Indigenous Radio, with Tiokasin Ghosthorse in New York, on Tuesday, March 24th

on Pacifica Radio Network’s 50,000 Watt flagship station – WBAI NY 99.5 FM for the past 7 years and 10 with other community radio stations. The broadcast area of WBAI covers a potential listening audience of 28 million within a 5 state area of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, fringe Pennsylvania including Philadelphia, and fringe Rhode Island.

It also can be heard worldwide via internet, cable and satellite feeds including pirate radio stations and 138 Pacifica radio affiliates in the United States

Listen via the web at http://stream.wbai.org/

Interview starts around 10:35AM Eastern (NYC)

and then ....

Fair & Balanced with Kevin Barrett on No Lies Radio

Music - Talk - News - 911Truth - Anti-War - Freedom - Justice - Earth - Spirit

Fair and Balanced is broadcast on No Lies Radio every Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern right after Democracy Now.

The show is broadcast LIVE and is 60 minutes in length. No commercials.

There will be listener questions submitted by email only to FB@noliesradio.org.

Please submit these in advance to Kevin Barrett !

Listen Live via the internet at http://www.noliesradio.org

See also http://www.truthjihad.blogspot.com

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WEDNESDAY

Raymond Geisler's "Unbought and Unbossed Show"
on CHLY-FM Nanaimo, on Wed. March 25th at 8:00 PM Pacific / 11:00 PM Eastern

A weekly 2 hour show that addresses the issues not reported in the Canadian mainstream, corporate media won't report, often focusing on the truth about 9/11, the SPP, and the NWO agenda. Guests include both well known social and political commentators and authors, as well as local, regional and national activists, their concerns, activism, projects and campaigns.

Listen Live online at www.CHLY.ca


Unbought and Unbossed Homepage and Archives

"Turn your Televisions off! You are being lied to!"

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MORE TBA SOON!

"Arresting George Bush & Gang is not a pipe dream for people of the world to attain through civil resistance, but instead a moral imperative if we are to wake up and survive the effects of their pipeline nightmares and the unfathomable horrors our children will inherit."

STS

Canadian Police "Arrested the Wrong Man!"

Video: Canadian Arrested for Trying to Arrest Bush



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62a53enMtA0

Comment by Talk Show Host Meria Heller:

Arrested the Wrong Man

John Splitting the Sky is a HERO and did nothing wrong. He wasn't the one that should be arrested. As usual the cops are doing the dirty work for the real criminals. When will they wake up and realize how wrong they are?

Meria
www.Meria.net
The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

Add your comments here:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41006

Here are a few comments by former Congress Woman and Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney about the crimes of the Bush administration.

I am pleased to announce that I will have some comments from Ms. McKinney on my arrest very soon.

Stay tuned!


STS