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Calgary Sun March 8, 2010
Political activist John Boncore [Splitting the Sky] was entitled to try to arrest US President George W Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush was justified.
Boncore is charged with obstructing a peace officer for repeatedly trying to get past security and into the Telus Convention Centre last March 17.
"Mr. Boncore had reasonable grounds to attempt to do what he said to the police he wanted to do," Davison told provincial court judge Manfred Delong.
"And that was to carry out a citizen’s arrest of George Bush," the lawyer said.
Davison said he will present evidence, including a documentary entitled Taxi to the Dark Side, which details the torture and murder of an innocent Afghan cabbie to support Boncore’s claim.
Davison said a group called Lawyers Against War, had urged the RCMP to arrest Bush for crimes against humanity if he stepped on Canadian soil. That group asserted Bush was ’inadmissable to Canada’ as a suspected war criminal and said the former US President should not be allowed into our country.
If he was deemed a suspected war criminal Bush would be disentitled to enter Canada...