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  • Ba'al Zevul (I Don't Know if I can Keep This Up)

    I wish you luck with that. The film will be most effective if it follows up leads given by the public with in-depth research

    Hint.

  • DoNNyDarKo

    I paid into that film knowing that George Galloway will make a very decent effort in exposing Blair for the callous treacherous, money grabbing, morally weak, mass murderer that he is.
    I can’t wait for the film or to see your contribution Craig.

  • Jay

    I look forward to George Galloway’s film and hope to hear more of his accounts.

    The crimes of democracies are rarely punished, as it is difficult to punish an entire voter bloc, so that democracies have far less practical disincentive to evil than any dictatorship whose dictator can be pinpointed for account. “This new invention of democracy is very closely connected with a peculiar phenomenon which has recently spread to a pernicious extent, namely the cowardice of a large section of our so-called political leaders. Whenever important decisions have to be made they always find themselves fortunate in being able to hide behind the backs of what they call the majority. In observing one of these political manipulators one notices how he wheedles the majority in order to get their sanction for whatever action he takes. He has to have accomplices in order to be able to shift responsibility to other shoulders whenever it is opportune to do so.” When majority opinion – in itself already a socially persuasive force – is further given political authority, it acquires an illusion of moral rectitude, meaning that democratic nations can rarely be brought to even admit collective guilt for evils they have perpetrated. Voters will at most blame the representative they themselves elected, while retaining unshakeable confidence in their collective ability to wisely elect his replacement.

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  • Ba'al Zevul (I Don't Know if I can Keep This Up)

    Dr. Watt –
    That approach looks as if it has potential. Unlike the unenforceable citizen’s arrest for war crimes, this could put him in a UK court for a definable criminal offence. Like it.

    “… the (Chilcot – BZ) Inquiry seems to have concentrated when exploring the legality or otherwise of the Iraq War entirely on questions of international law. The Inquiry appears to have omitted to examine whether actions relating to the Iraq War involved criminal offences under UK law.”

    I wonder if GG has considered it?

  • Clark

    I suppose the Hague Invasion Act is sort-of on-topic here. The US reserves the right to use military force against the International Criminal Court at the Hague – “to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

  • Mary

    Let us not forget his placement as Quartet Envoy/shill for the US and Israel.

    Palestinian Authority: Israel’s Doppelgänger
    by Vacy Vlazna / March 20th, 2014
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/03/palestinian-authority-israels-doppelganger/

    The Palestinian people have been betrayed many times over, not least by their politicians.

    The author – wonderful woman.
    Dr. Vacy Vlazna is Coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters. She was Human Rights Advisor to the GAM team in the second round of the Aceh peace talks, Helsinki, February 2005 and then withdrew on principle. Vacy was coordinator of the East Timor Justice Lobby as well as serving in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET from 1999-2001.

    See here how much she cares for the Palestinians.
    http://dissidentvoice.org/author/vacyvlazna/

  • numberstation

    Craig,
    All the best for the interview. It would be interesting to give your perspective on the meeting with George Galloway. Are you a fan of his?
    Regards,
    numberstation

  • Noisy Tappet

    Personally, I’d suspend him by the goolies from a lamp-post on Tower Bridge rather than let him rot in jail at taxpayers’ expense.

  • A Node

    I don’t believe I have ever had more value from a tenner than the one I contributed towards the making of this film. The most frustrating things about the Blair situation is knowing that he knows that you not only know that he is a mass-murdering war criminal, but that you can’t do fuck all about it so up yours, pleb.
    Well, that tenner has let me do something about it. Finally I’ve been able to give him a small figurative kick in the balls. It won’t kick him all the way to the Hague, but it might just might be one of a cumulative series of actions that does. And at the very least, it will be a documented testimony to follow his reputation into the future blight it for posterity.
    It’s the tenner that keeps on giving.
    As I understand it, Galloway intends to use the available donations to make the best film he can, and the more he has the better the film will be. You can still donate here: http://www.theblairdoc.com/

  • Tony M

    You might also want to chin him about his fanatical, almost comical stance on Scottish Independence, he’s become a parody of the Unionist camp, he does it with such an deadpan expression too, I keep expecting him to burst out laughing from the pressure when delivering his logically inconsistent anti-democratic take on this. You might ask him to wink or something when trotting out this BritNat boilerplate tosh. We all go forward together hand in hand brothers and sisters across the world, by one or more taking taking that brave first step.

    Craig (when back), do you really think the disastrous course the country took in Iraq in 2003 – well any acceptable line into serious rogue state territory would have been any different without Blair, or some other mug in position, the earlier military action in Iraq over Kuwait and then the sanctions all culminated in this, the schedule going back to Thatcher’s last months in office and through John Major’s premiership, they both along with many more, participated in the killing too. I think Blair will try to share and spread the blame around as widely as possible, just think the military-security-political-media apparatus of whole generations of this country’s establishment are culpable, already egregious war criminals proven by voluminous evidence . Could Blair even have stopped it if he had non-psychopathic conscience of any degree and put his foot firmly on the brake instead of the accelerator?

    Hope the film goes well, I’m could make myself available for any glamourous dashing scenes.

  • guano

    Ba’al

    Blair has good reason for whooping up on Kurdish Newroz for all the profits from his ventures in Iraq. Looks like the -stans and Mongolia are going to get similar freedoms soon.

    The party lasted long enough in Kurdistan for the oil to flow into corporate pockets. Maliki has now been told by his USUKIS paymasters to spend the cash on weaponry and switch the Kurdish cash off.

    Surely Ba’al would be first to be celebrating the spring equinox. I have a feeling you must be an imposter/ false god.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!

    “I thought the project had gone cold. Craig, could you get GG to give some idea when the film might be released and give him our best wishes.”
    ______________________-

    give him Mary’s best wishes (but not mine) and also ask him to make sure that he accounts properly for all the money which subscribers have coughed up for the film. Havana cigars included.

  • Ba'al Zevul (Just A Y'Know, ordinary Sorta Guy)

    Guano, where do you get the idea I would not celebrate Naw Ruz? (the spelling varies with the location I think)? I am a Canaanite god, with strong ties to Mesopotamia and Persia. Just a little eclipsed right now by all those tedious followers of a Book….

    Meanwhile, in Albania, the Crown Agents are about to reduce tax evasion and smuggling. You know, like they do so successfully here? And it’s all thanks to Tony Blair –

    http://www.balkaneu.com/foreign-company-starts-work-albanian-customs-fight-evasion/

    The opposition isn’t happy –

    “The opposition and several media in Albania have declared that the company that was hired to work in the Albanian Customs had close ties with the former British premier, Tony Blair, who is an advisor to prime minister Edi Rama. The opposition has accused the government of making an abusive contract at the detriment of the state budget. The government has considered these accusations as unacceptable.”

    But that never made much difference in Albania. This guy has a sharp take on the common ground between Albania’s current government and Blair-era neutered Britain –

    http://continentcontinent.cc/blog/tag/tony-blair/

    Worth a read.

  • Ben-MAD Western Carnivore and Warmonger

    Not sure a film is gonna remove the shit-eating grins Dubya and Blair display in public. Their lack of repentance is evidence of a dearth of conscience and such allows them to blow off what they see and hear about their governance.

  • Ba'al Zevul (Just A Y'Know, ordinary Sorta Guy)

    Ben, all one can do is try and get people to see Blair and Bush in their true light. Especially, I think, Blair. Bush was led by the nose – Blair was attached to Bush’s other end.

  • Ben-MAD Western Carnivore and Warmonger

    Ba’al; It’s a daisy-chain. The group-grope of TEAM USA !!!

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