Posted on 06/02/2008 8:37:22 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
I realise now that I didn't have a hope. I had almost reached the stage when two of the biggest gorillas I have ever seen swept me up and carried me out of the tent. It was humiliating, but it could have been worse. The guard on the other side of the stage, half hidden in the curtains, had spent the lecture touching something under his left armpit. Perhaps he had bubos.
I had no intention of arresting John Bolton, the former under-secretary of state at the US state department, when I arrived at the Hay festival. But during a panel discussion about the Iraq war, I remarked that the greatest crime of the 21st century had become so normalised that one of its authors was due to visit the festival to promote his book. I proposed that someone should attempt a citizens' arrest, in the hope of instilling a fear of punishment among those who plan illegal wars. After the session I realised that I couldn't call on other people to do something I wasn't prepared to do myself.
I knew that I was more likely to be arrested and charged than Mr Bolton. I had no intention of harming him, or of acting in any way that could be interpreted as aggressive, but had I sought only to steer him gently towards the police I might have faced a range of exotic charges, from false imprisonment to aggravated assault. I was prepared to take this risk. It is not enough to demand that other people act, knowing that they will not.
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Classic Monbiot, literally a legend in his own mind. This sort of self-aggrandizing fantasy is barely forgivable in a 15-year old and simply pathetic in an adult.
He and Morford should take advantage of that new California law, if you catch my drift...
Monbiot? Is that French for moonbat?
Classic British leftist fop.
Belongs in San Francisco.
Jay Leno, we’ve found another member for your comedy writing team. And he’s so good he’s funny without trying, or we think he’s not trying.
These people are crazy but still, you don’t see them trying to arrest or mug the moonbats in Iran...
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