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Bermuda protestors call for 'dictator' PM to step down after secret US Guantanamo deal
The London Telegraph ^ | June 17, 2009 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 06/16/2009 6:06:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the transfer of four Guantanamo Bay inmates to Bermdua branded their prime minister Ewert Brown a "dictator" and demanded he step down after negotiating a secret deal witht he United States.

About 600 people gathered outside Parliament in Hamilton, the island's capital, chanting "Brown must go" and waving banners as they marched to the Cabinet office.

But Mr Brown was defiant. "As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era," he shouted at the booing crowd. "This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer," he said.

Mr Brown negotiated a secret deal with the US last week members of China's Muslim Uighur minority to be sent to the British Isle. The Foreign Office was not informed and the Obama administration also bypassed the British.

The US, which is desperate to unload the prisoners to fulfil a promise made by president Barack Obama to close the jail by next January, said it could not send the Uighurs to China because they faced persecution there.

Congress, however, blocked efforts to release them in the US, even though they had long ago been deemed no threat.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, protested to Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, about the secret deal and questioned whether Mr Brown had authority to admit the Uighurs. Britain is responsible for the foreign policy and security of Bermuda.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bermuda; bho44; britain; china; ewertbrown; gitmo; guantanamo; islam; obama; terrorists; uighurs; uk; wot
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
1 posted on 06/16/2009 6:06:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But Mr Brown was defiant. "As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era," he shouted at the booing crowd. "This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer," he said.

I think Brown is making fun of the protestors, believing they pose no threat to his power. Big ego this guy has. No wonder obama was able to snooker him.

2 posted on 06/16/2009 6:12:48 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmmm. I’d like to know if there have been any recent and large deposits to this guy’s secret Swiss bank account.


3 posted on 06/16/2009 6:16:38 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So let me get this straight, Zero made a secret deal to pawn off his Chinese nationalist prisoners to a Britain territory which is a touristy type of resort without the knowledge of the British or Chinese government.

Zero is just making friends right and left, pun intended. So now this has pissed off the Bermudans, the British, the Chinese and the U.S. citizens that are footing the bill.


4 posted on 06/16/2009 6:17:55 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like the people in Bermuda aren’t very happy about Barack the Kenyan turning their island into an Islamofascist terrorist training camp.


5 posted on 06/16/2009 6:17:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Why is the yellow-bellied coward, David Letterman, afraid of Governor Sarah Palin?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m doing both at the same time....


6 posted on 06/16/2009 6:19:53 PM PDT by Gator113 (I live in "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Imam Obama told me so.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I found a website that accuses Brown of various crimes and corrupt activities.

http://www.bermuda.org.uk/ewart_brown.htm

Also, it says that Brown’s son has been charged with sexual abuse against 8 female patients in L.A., including rape and abuse of a minor:

http://www.bermuda.org.uk/son_of_brown.htm

I don’t know how reliable this site is, but I suspect that the basic facts are probably correct, or they’d have been sued for libel.


7 posted on 06/16/2009 6:24:14 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MadIvan; freedom44; MinorityRepublican; Dog; Straight Vermonter; HHKrepublican_2; nwctwx; ...
PING!!
8 posted on 06/16/2009 6:37:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In memory of my father, Gunnery Sgt., USMC, WWII and Korea, 1925-2002)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

” So now this has pissed off the Bermudans, the British, the Chinese and the U.S. citizens that are footing the bill”

Wonder how much the hotel bill is for these fellows?


9 posted on 06/16/2009 7:11:48 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

But Mr Brown was defiant. “As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era,” he shouted at the booing crowd. “This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer,” he said.

Other low life politicians who have seen them “larger and longer” include,Barney Frank, Larry Craig,and about 20
% of Massachusetts residents!


10 posted on 06/16/2009 7:24:19 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: Western Phil

Rush was talking about this on his show today. He was staying that we are footing the bill, but didn’t say how much money. Rush would have said if he knew.

I am sure that the U.S. through Zero also crossed the palm of the PM of Bermuda with some money.


11 posted on 06/16/2009 9:27:52 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a promise made by president Barack Obama to close the jail by next January, said it could not send the Uighurs to China because they faced persecution there.

Obama needs to tell me why....

12 posted on 06/16/2009 9:30:36 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Western Phil
Wonder how much the hotel bill is for these fellows?

Hotel? They're not in a hotel. They are in a cottage overlooking the ocean at some resort. The cost is about $180 a night. I don't know if that is per person or if it is for all four of them.

13 posted on 06/16/2009 9:38:37 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will Bermuda have missiles aimed at the US?


14 posted on 06/16/2009 9:42:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

O calls that a Win-Win deal!


15 posted on 06/16/2009 9:43:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Cicero

Wow. It looks like they really have the goods on Brown’s son. Four million dollar bond.

I suspect the charges against the son will be dropped, much like the charges against the new black panther thugs who were intimidating voters.


16 posted on 06/16/2009 9:44:02 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: InterceptPoint
Hmmmm. I’d like to know if there have been any recent and large deposits to this guy’s secret Swiss bank account.

That was my first thought when I heard about this.

17 posted on 06/17/2009 3:09:41 AM PDT by PJ-Comix ("They spent a trillion dollars on a guess?" ---Astute DUmmie observation)
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To: Cicero

actually the sites highlights a number of issues with which Mr Brown has been associated, possess a number of questions but has never received a response. There is no ‘accusation’, simply a desire to understand and circulate the incredible circumstances that have occurred and for which no one appears accountable. The parallel (newer) site has the following that are related to the subject of the postings:

www.bermudapolice.com/selling_out.htm
www.bermudapolice.com/kevin_brown.htm

The sites are reliable and as you say, action would have been taken - I understand Mr Brown has an advisor, Julian Hall, who I feel could provide ample advice about the law to the Premier - more about Mr Hall can be found using Google.

on a personal note, thank you for taking the time to find and read the www.bermuda.org.uk pages

Philip Swift
former Bermuda Detective Constable 217
author of www.bermuda.org.uk & www.bermudapolice.com ...

the Bermuda police / Government know where in the UK to find me!


18 posted on 06/17/2009 4:23:35 AM PDT by BDA999
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m pretty sure they were happy with him on our election day.


19 posted on 06/17/2009 4:26:15 AM PDT by rabidralph
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