[www-features] PROPOSAL: Fugitive Rice makes narrow escape in Auckland

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http://www.indymedia.org/en/2008/07/910639.shtml

> Hearing nothing else, I'll post it at the top of the hour I guess.
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>> kia ora koutou,
>>
>> here is a feature proposal from Aotearoa.
>> solidarity
>> smush
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>> HEADLINE:
>> Fugitive Rice makes narrow escape in Auckland
>>
>> SUBHEAD:
>> <a href="http://indymedia.org.nz">AOTEAROA</a>: ANTI-WAR
>>
>> IMAGE:
>> http://indymedia.org.nz/usermedia/image/5/thumb/flag_burning.jpg
>>
>> ABSTRACT:
>> United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a narrow escape
>> from justice, with the assistance of the New Zealand Police, in
>> Auckland on Saturday 26 July. The police can now consider themselves
>> accessories to war crimes. Rice met with government leaders in
>> Auckland but was chased by 150 protesters spurred on by a bounty of
>> $10,000. They called for her arrest, under the Geneva Convention, for
>> war crimes and for her role in authorising the use of torture. <br />
>>    <br />
>>    <b>Photos:</b> [ <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75777/index.php">1</a>
>> | <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/mod/comments/display/110422/index.php">2</a>
>> | <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/mod/comments/display/110430/index.php">3</a>
>> | <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/mod/comments/display/110432/index.php">4</a>
>> | <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75783/index.php">5</a>
>> ] <br />
>>
>>    <b>Links:</b> <a href="http://condimustgo.com/">Condi Must Go</a> |
>> <a href="http://ourworldisnotforsale.wordpress.com/">Our World is Not
>> For Sale</a> | Uriohau: <a
>> href="http://uriohau.blogspot.com/2008/07/haere-atu-condaleezza.html">Haere
>> Atu Condoleezza</a> | <a
>> href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Politics/tabid/370/articleID/64508/cat/525/Default.aspx#video">TV3
>> Video Coverage</a> <br />
>>    <b>Rice Bounty:</b> <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75766/index.php">AUSA
>> offers $5000 for citizen's arrest of Rice</a> | <a
>> href="http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75768/index.php">AUSA
>> to lodge police complaint over Rice visit </a> | <a
>> href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0807/S00327.htm">AUSA: Further
>> Development Regarding Citizen's Arrest</a> | <a
>> href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0807/S00325.htm">VUWSA Doubles
>> Bounty On Condy's Head</a>
>>
>> BODY:
>> There was chanting, speeches and an impressive US flag burning outside
>> Government House where Rice was meeting with prime minister Helen
>> Clark and foreign affairs minister Winston Peters. The speeches
>> focused on Rice's support for the illegal and immoral war in Iraq, as
>> well as the wider and more nonsensical 'War on Terror'; her
>> sanctioning of torture and instrumental role in setting up Guantanamo
>> Bay; and on what a bad idea a free trade agreement with the US would
>> be. Then the crowd relocated to the Langham Hotel, where Rice met with
>> leader of the parliamentary opposition, John Key.
>> <br /><br />
>> Auckland University Students Association had to withdraw the bounty it
>> placed on the head of Condoleezza Rice two days earlier, under threat
>> of legal action. However, the students association at Victoria
>> University in Wellington doubled the price, offering $10,000 for a
>> successful citizen's arrest. Although several people turned up to the
>> demo with handcuffs, the chance to nab Rice didn't present itself.
>> Police refused to cooperate in the arrest of this war criminal, giving
>> the irrelevant excuse that she is a visiting dignitary.
>> <br /><br />
>> Police had planned to limit protest at the Langham hotel by keeping
>> protesters on the opposite side of the road, behind shiny new
>> barricades that had obviously been bought specially for the occasion.
>> What they hadn't planned for was a busload of protesters being dropped
>> off at the bus stop outside the hotel. After fifteen minutes of
>> chanting and yelling by protestors, the police claimed that standing
>> on the public footpath outside the hotel, was a 'safety risk.' When
>> protesters refused to leave, the police violently forced them off the
>> sidewalk and out onto the road. Protesters were shoved, punched and
>> thrown to the street and pain compliance holds used on several
>> protesters to get them to move. Several were punched in the face,
>> including veteran activist John Minto who was shoved to the ground by
>> several officers, smashing and breaking the megaphone he was chanting
>> through. Two protesters were arrested and one man was left bleeding
>> from the neck and wrist.
>> <br /><br />
>> <b>NoRightTurn:</b> <a
>> href="http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-we-should-deal-with-torturers.html">How
>> we should deal with torturers</a> | <a
>> href="http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2008/07/will-police-enforce-law.html">Will
>> the police enforce the law?</a> | <a
>> href="http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-should-arrest-this-war-criminal.html">We
>> should arrest this war criminal</a>
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