(New Zealand) Student group seeks Rice citizen arrest

[sabra]

Source: Chicago Trib

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits New Zealand today, where a group of students who oppose the Iraq War have offered a $3,700 reward to anyone who makes a citizen's arrest of her.

The Auckland University Students' Association charges that Rice oversaw "the illegal invasion and continued occupation" of Iraq," AP reports.

Rice plans to meet with Prime Minister Helen Clark and Foreign Minister Winston Peters during her first trip to New Zealand, following a Southeast Asian security forum in Singapore.

Rice said during a press conference today that protests are part of Democracy.

"Student protests are particularly a long honored tradition in democratic society," Rice said. "I can only say that the United States has done everything that it can to end this war on terror, to live up to our international and national laws and obligations."

Read more: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/condoleezza_rice_citizens_arre.html

[Megahurtz]

1. Good.

I hope somebody does it.

She shouldn't be in New Zealand anyway.

[LynnTheDem]

2. "live up to our international and national laws and obligations" versus

"Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq


The arbiter of international law says invading Iraq was illegal.

The US Constitution calls all ratified treaties, such as the UN Charter, the "supreme law of the land".

The bush regime violated the UN Charter, thus violating international law and the US Constitution.

Which seems kinda the opposite of rice's "the United States has done everything that it can to...live up to our international and national laws and obligations."