Mr. Bush,

You have hijacked the pain and the sympathy that flowed from the horror of September 11th 2001, and used it to commit the “supreme international crime” (Nuremberg Tribunal): you attacked two countries that presented no imminent threat to the United States or the international community;

your occupation army is creating a daily bloodbath in Iraq, a country which you absurdly claim to liberate and reconstruct, and you massively support the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the daily ousting of the Palestinian people;

your attacks, your new policies on “pre-emptive” war and on the integration of nuclear weapons into the regular arsenal of your army, your rejection of the ABM treaty and your anti-missile shield project, have re-launched the arms race, increased world insecurity and worsened the risk of nuclear war.

WE want nothing to do with your wars or your supreme war, the “war on terror”, and we reject any Canadian participation in your plans of domination and conquest.

WE are appalled by the massive hijacking of collective resources presently underway to the benefit of the industries of war and destruction, and we call on the people of Quebec and Canada to reject the many pressures in the same direction which are being exercized here also.

Mr. Bush,

you have banked on the tragic fear created produced in your country by the September 11th attacks, and you have done your best to preserve and intensify that fear in ordre to launch an all-out offensive against civil liberties, and against the rights of refugees and immigrants; a campaign that promotes racial profiling and discrimination against targeted groups from the Arab and Muslim communities;

you have just named as Secretary of Justice the very person who declared that the Geneva Convention and the Convention Against Torture do not apply to the thousands of people that you have jailed on suspicion of belonging to “terrorist networks”;

WE do not want your paraphernalia of so-called anti-terrorist measures, including the Patriot Act, and we reject the “anti-terrorist” assaults on people’s liberties that the Government of Canada has also adopted, following on your heels.

Mr. Bush,

You have rejected the accords of Kyoto, the AMB Treaty, the International Criminal Court, the Mine Ban Treaty, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, and several other international instruments towards the defense of individual rights;

you state more and more openly that you no longer have to consider the “international community”, which has often been given a rough ride, and you say that we now have no choice but to accept that your government runs the world,

WE do not accept that you violations of the fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations. We demand that the Government of Canada energetically protest each time –-and there are many— that you or your representatives make a mockery of these principles and trample them.

Mr. Bush (and Mister Martin…), very simply…

… we aspire to have a world where the wealth produced collectively is shared collectively and fairly; towards this goal, we want concrete plans, effective mobilisations, strong actions, and convincing and fast results;

… we aspire to have a world where civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights are respected, guaranteed and protected; where rights and human dignity are, in actual fact, universal and inseparable;

… so we aspire to have a world of justice, equality, and liberty, the sole foundations of a peace that is altogether real, deep, and lasting.

And to conclude, Mr. Bush,

If your military commanders proudly try to intimidate the world by proclaiming that you do not count the number of your victims, you can be sure that on this side we are counting them all, and that to us they all count.

The world is not your video game.
The Earth does not belong to you.

And you are definitely not our “Commander in Chief” !

More and more we are rallying and resisting. We resist through large mobilizations –like the anti-globalization, anti-war and women’s movements— but also through countless local acts of resistance and creating alternatives.

With our allies all over the world, including within the United States itself, we will stand together and we will block your global destructive plans!