How much political theater is useful ? I can’t see anything but good if the people responsible for the Iraq War and it’s crimes are being subjected to this type of action . Surely, slightly disrupting their lives is the least that can be done .They started a War after all .

Thursday May 29, 2008

The Guardian

The environmental campaigner George Monbiot last night tried and failed to make a citizen’s arrest of the former Bush administration official John Bolton over alleged “war crimes” committed during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

As Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, ended an hour-long discussion at the Hay festival, Monbiot, who had earlier challenged him for alleged breaches of the postwar Nuremberg Principles, defining war crimes, moved towards the stage waving a charge sheet.

But security staff intervened and bundled Monbiot out of the tent as 20 supporters chanted “war criminal” and waved placards. The comedian Marcus Brigstocke, who tried to pursue Bolton as he left the other side of the tent, was also blocked by security staff.

Afterwards, Monbiot, a contributor to the Guardian, said: “I’m disappointed I couldn’t reach him, but I made what I believe to be the first attempt ever to arrest one of the perpetrators of the Iraq war, and I would like to see that followed up.”

http://books.guardian.co.uk/pr…  article

..a citizen’s arrest of John Robert Bolton, former Under-Secretary of State, US State Department, for the crime of aggression, as established by customary international law and described by Nuremberg Principles this link for specific charges

detailed ‘charges’ here …

http://www.monbiot.com/archive…