Former U.S. president George W. Bush garners noisy protest in Edmonton

[maddezmom]

Source: Canadian Press

October 21, 2009 12:40 a.m.


EDMONTON - While former U.S. president George W. Bush talked about democracy inside a downtown Edmonton conference centre on Tuesday, hundreds of protesters were outside exercising their right to free speech with signs, songs and screams.

"Stop the killing, stop the war," the protesters chanted to the beat of a drum. They held signs that said "Bush is a war criminal;" "Bush lied, 1,000s died;" and "Canada is not Bush Country."

Several dozen police officers kept protesters away from the front of the Shaw Conference Centre and as the crowd grew, metal barricades went up between the police and the crowd.

Marilyn Gaa, who holds both American and Canadian citizenship, held a three-metre-tall black-clad Grim Reaper with a sign on his back that said: "GWB I am your biggest fan" and on the front, "Thanks for 8 great years."


Read more: http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/canada/article/345633--bush-belongs-in-prison

[Lasher]

1. Life without free speech zones.

Suck it up, Junior! Surprise, you are hated throughout the world.

[No Elephants]

2. Don't Canadians know what shoes are for?

LOL, just got a mental image of hundreds of snowshoes hurtling toward Dummya's otherwise useless head.

:rofl:

[kedrys]

9. And boots.

Many of us have switched to boots for the fall season. :P

[Altoid_Cyclist]

13. No No No No No!

Try to get close enough that you can swing them at him with enough force to make him run back to Babs & Poppy.

Of course, he probably still doesn't let anyone not hand-picked by his trainers within a hundred yards of his precious self.

Weigh down some boots and hurl them at his vacuous head.

[Myrina]

17. Former Prez's have Secret Service, IIRC ..

... good luck trying to take a swing at him ...

[Altoid_Cyclist]

18. I was thinking that by now even they're probably fed up with him.

That's got to be a thankless assignment.

[kedrys]

3. He's in Montreal tomorrow

Across the street from my office. I'd go heckle the little bitch, but I'd probably get arrested.

[No Elephants]

4. Heckling a politician is a crime in Canada?

[kedrys]

8. No, but I have a long list of ways he ruined my life

And I'd probably get out of control once I got going. :nuke:

Actually, there's a protest or another going on pretty much daily up here.

[pjt7]

10. Don't be a wimp kedry

Make Bush's stay in Montreal as uncomfortable for HIM as possible.

[Generic Other]

15. you will be doing it for us all!

now get out there and let him hear your voice.

[kedrys]

23. I'll seriously consider it

I had a bit of a situation at work today, but if it's gone away by the time that fat little drunken frat bitch from Connecticut shows up, I know exactly what to do with my lunch hour. :D

(With apologies to the horizontally challenged, drunks, frats, bitches, and Connecticuts everywhere.)

[kedrys]

24. Oops dupe

DU hiccupped. :P

[Jack Fate]

5. "Stop the killing, stop the war,"

Hate to have to break it to them, but they're protesting the wrong president.

[argyl]

6. They're also calling him a war criminal. They've got the right guy.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Which one would you protest?

??????????????

[frog92969]

12. Both

What President couldn't we protest?

[No Elephants]

30. To the contrary, seems as though they knew exactly whom they were protesting.

Bush is a war criminal;" "Bush lied, 1,000s died;" and "Canada is not Bush Country.

Marilyn Gaa, who holds both American and Canadian citizenship, held a three-metre-tall black-clad Grim Reaper with a sign on his back that said: "GWB I am your biggest fan" and on the front, "Thanks for 8 great years."

[Lint Head]

11. I hope this murderer is hounded to his grave along with his

'sick puppy' daddy!

[Crowman1979]

25. I hope a relapse occurs and he ODs at Rush's mansion!

[Cobalt-60]

14. Stake him out for the Polar Bears!

OFC even they may pass on that toxic a cut of meat.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

19. Yep. They're endangered enough without trying to poison them.

[jeremyfive]

16. Bush Crime Family

I love how this lying deceitful Bush family famous for torture, lies, distorion, wartime profiteering, leaked security covers, terrorist vulnerability, fictious "Felons" lists (falsely loaded up with Democrats), cronyism, nepotism, and other criminality, have the absolute gall to call "truth-tellers" sick puppies.

The criminal Bush family is a rats nest of the sickest perversion.

Rachel and Keith are two of the finest broadcasters we have seen on air in quite some time. . . and the Bush Family deserves their low place in the hall of shame for generations to come. Filth.

[No Elephants]

28. Don't forget Ed Shultz!

[TrogL]

20. This costing Canada a fortune

...in security eg. overtime for police. The CBC was quoting figures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Clinton was here last month and it cost $12,000.

[Crowman1979]

21. How much do you wanna bet that PM Harpo is keeping the chimp from being sent to the Hague?

[Betty Karlson]

22. I'd bet against it:

The Hague wouldn't take him because of the breach of diplomacy and possible invasion that would ensue.

[Judi Lynn]

26. Those mean Canadians are hurting Dubya's father, you can be sure of that.

Poor, poor man. He's so tender-hearted. <sniff>

http://www.foxnews.com.nyud.net:8090/images/244224/0_61_120406_bush_tears.jpg

You Tube replay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkPXVnZAis

[No Elephants]

29. He just was so upset that Jeb's chances of being Prez, too, were looking dim bc

Dummya had made the Bush name toxic. For a lot of Dummya's second term, I'd bet there was a lot of talk about being the first family in American history to have 3 Presidents.

[Spazito]

27. Well, I guess Canadians are "sick puppies" too....

or, at least, poppy bush would certainly think so. It would be a badge of honor to be considered as members of the "sick puppies" club along with Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann!