Friday, January 24, 2014

Why I’ll be rewarding the latest attempt to make a citizen’s arrest on Tony Blair


This is why I set up the Arrest Blair website. Everywhere I went, I met people who were furious that Tony Blair should have got away with what, under international law, appears to be clearly defined as mass murder. The crime of aggression (“planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression) was described by the Nuremberg Tribunal as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.

While petty tyrants from weaker nations have been successfully prosecuted for horrific but lesser crimes, the unprovoked invasion of Iraq by Blair and George Bush and the mass killing that followed remains not only unpunished but apparently richly rewarded. Or so Blair’s lucrative consultancies and lecture tours organised by the Washington Speakers Bureau appear to suggest .... http://www.theguardian.com