Bush’s Toronto appearance cancelled

[marmar]

from the Toronto Star:



Next week’s appearance by former U.S. president George W. Bush at an event hosted by a local evangelical Christian university has been cancelled.

The decision came Wednesday, the same day three former students launched a petition http://www.tyndale.co/petitionEND urging the university to cancel the speech. On Tuesday, a class valedictorian and professor publicly spoke out against the appearance following the resignation of another staff member.

Bush was scheduled to speak Sept. 20 to about 150 people at an invitation-only breakfast hosted by Tyndale University College and Seminary, home to about 1,400 students at two campuses in Toronto’s north end.

Tyndale supporter Prem Watsa, chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings and sometimes referred to as “Canada’s Warren Buffett,” was sponsoring the event, which the administration said was intended to raise the university’s profile. Watsa did not respond to requests for comment. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1053604--bush-s-toronto-appearance-cancelled?bn=1

[daggahead]

1. Stoodip students ...

They should tipped off the RCMP to arrest him and put him on trial for crimes against humanity.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. That's exactly what I was thinking! Why didn't they set the rat bastard up instead?

:banghead:

[dembotoz]

6. would have been great theater--i would pay money to see it

[tularetom]

7. I'd like to believe that's what happened

Not that any students initiated anything, but somebody on his staff realized that he could be subject to arrest and prosecution if he stepped foot on Canadian soil and turned down the invite.

The other story is just a cover.

The boy king now knows he won't be traveling the world and receiving the accolades of throngs of grateful citizens. He's more or less under house arrest when it comes to international travel.

[PDJane]

2. Well, that's one way to raise the profile of the college...........

Not the way that one would hope for, necessarily, but one way.........

[polly7]

4. Good! 150 people will maintain 20 IQ points, it's too bad they

wanted to attend in the first place. Let the evil, warmongering, torturing fool peddle his bullshit somewhere else.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. If those students wanted to see the chimp . . .

. . . then they probably don't have 20 IQ points and don't belong in a university.

On the other hand, some could have been journalism majors, communications majors, political science majors or history majors going as part of a class assignment.

[polly7]

14. It didn't say they were 150 students attending, just people. I'm guessing

Harper's family and friends had their arms twisted(I blame everything on Harper). , but I could be wrong and maybe it was students with a legitimate purpose, though what they thought they'd learn from him is beyond me.

[mod mom]

5. Inviting * was "intended to raise the university’s profile"

:rofl: Must not be much of a universtiy.

[marmar]

9. "local evangelical Christian university"

'nuff said.

[RC]

8. That's the story put out. The real reason is the 'danger' of being arrested for war crimes.

GW bu$h can never leave this country and keep walking around loose ('lose' for the Bush lovers).

[SpiralHawk]

10. "You got it. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[gratuitous]

13. Canada seems to have a pesky regard for its own laws and treaty obligations

We don't suffer from that obsession here in the United States.

[LadyHawkAZ]

12. Shocked, I tell ya! Never woulda seen this coming. n/t

[KamaAina]

15. This guy Watsa is far from being "Canada's Warren Buffett"

Buffett is a solid citizen, as billionaires go. Could you in your wildest dreams imagine him supporting the U.S. equivalent of Tyndale, such as Liberty or Bob Jones University?!

[global1]

16. G.W. Bush - Almost A Man Without A Country As He Probably Has Less Than.......

half support in the U.S. He is in exile. He can't travel out of the U.S. for fear he'll wind up at the Hague.

[sabrina 1]

17. It's good to see that some people are holding the war criminals

accountable. They should never be allowed to forget what they did. Their criminal policies have destroyed so much in this world, and shamefully, here they are still treated like elder statesmen. Good for those students.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. amazing

[Octafish]

19. Bush will always be welcome in China and Saudi Arabia.

That is, for as long as their respective corrupt ruling elites continue in power.

[Still Blue in PDX]

20. Dammit. nt