Bolton escapes justice

Earlier this week I reported that Guardian columnist George Monbiot was going to attempt a citizen's arrest of John Bolton at Hay On Wye

Unfortunately the attempt did not succeed.

As Michael White reports this morning

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.

Monbiot to attempt citizen arrest at Hay on Wye.

The target? John Bolton who according to Monbiot was a principle architect of the invasion of Iraq.

For him

the great crime of the Iraq war has been normalised and domesticated.
So successful has this process of normalisation been that in three days’ time one of its perpetrators will be coming here - to Hay-on-Wye, the epicentre of polite society - to promote his book and sell some copies. I do not regret the fact that he is coming here - far from it - but I see it as a sign of the extent to which the great crime he helped to commit is viewed as an ordinary part of the political process.

So if you attending the festival,perhaps you should offer to help George out

Via Westmonster