Taxpayers are facing a six-figure security bill to protect Tony Blair from angry protesters when he launches his autobiography next month.

The former prime minister has announced that he will sign copies of the book, for which he is being paid a £4.6million advance, at a public event at Waterstone’s flagship store in central London.

His decision comes despite warnings that the move will cause a massive security headache for police. Thousands of protesters are expected to stage an angry demonstration outside the store.

Protesters against the Iraq war have promised a £30,000 bounty to anyone who manages to arrest Mr Blair, who has been accused of deceiving the public to take Britain to war in 2003.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302362/Tony-Blair-book-launch-cost-fortune-protect-gets-4-3m.html#ixzz0w9JbULrC

His partner in war crime, Gordon Brown, who is mentioned in the article as the author of a book that bombed, was on our screens yesterday exhorting us all to give generously to the DEC appeal for Pakistan. This is in sharp contrast to his inaction when the DEC appeal was launched for Gaza after Cast Lead, an appeal by the way that was never aired by the BBC on the direction of Mark Thompson, its Zionist supporting Director General.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302362/Tony-Blair-book-launch-cost-fortune-protect-gets-4-3m.html

Blair is involved with Ahava via his tie up with Arnault/LVMH.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11424.shtml

Another one of his many commercial and lucrative deals.

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/100809_bogus_parallels_the.php

John Hilley has written subsequently to Macintyre thus:

Latest Alert
Posted by John Hilley on August 10, 2010, 11:29 am

Excellent work, Eds.

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Dear Donald

The latest Media Lens Alert response notes:

“As British citizens, we, Macintyre included, all bear responsibility for Blair’s actions – our moral accountability is a very clear and obvious factor demanding that we hold Blair to account as far as we are able.”

To restate the question posed by ML, I’d like you to show me precisely where you have, on any occasion, directly challenged Mr Blair or any other leading politician over their criminal responsibility for warmongering and human suffering, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine.

Why, in particular, do you see it as your job to report Blair’s views? Isn’t it your job, as a supposedly ‘critical journalist’, to challenge Blair’s views?

More specifically, shouldn’t you be questioning his very right to express those views from a position of high office rather than as a suspected war criminal?

And why should that very elementary practice of critical journalistic questioning be regarded as wasteful “polemical argument”? Are we to assume that a “fast moving story” excuses or precludes such questioning? Or is the urgent transcribing of one of ‘our’ leaders’ views – at the instigation of your editor – more important than illuminating the reader on the role that leader and his state have played in the slow, static story of Palestinian suffering?

Your lamenting of the West’s “woeful inaction” over Gaza rests on a similar set of template presumptions about its otherwise ‘benevolent’ spirit of “enterprise, freedom and democracy”, utterly failing to highlight the West’s financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel. In short, where is your journalistic examination of ‘our’ governments’ leading participation in that oppression?

Avoiding polemical exchange over this ‘fast moving Alert’, could you, perhaps, take a little self-reflective time to examine these points in serious detail?

Sincerely

John Hilley

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Well said John Pilger here and Gary Corseri’s comment.

They prefer to spare Jewish lives in their machivelian buggery games, but when it comes down to it, the sods don’t really give a rat’s arse, as long as it aint rich Jews taking the plug up their wide bums unwillingly.

The main problem we ordinary mortals have is getting at the truth. As Martha Gelhorn said:
“Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say. Keep an untrusting eye on all of them.”

Take for example their Orwellian use of language. In this piece, JP quotes Blair as saying: “We do know of links between al-Qaida and Iraq”, and Buller saying: “There is no credible intelligence to suggest that connection”… suggesting these are incompatible statements. But of course they’re not. There is a world of difference between ‘credible intelligence’ and ‘links’ as Blair, a barrister by training, would know only too well.

For me, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence that the ‘coallition of the willing’ knew in advance that there were no WMDs in Iraq occurred just after the invasion. One night there was a brief news report about the army team whose purpose it was to find these elusive weapons. It was no more than platoon strength – to scour a country more than three times the size of England! I don’t know about Bush and Blair, but if I was aware that my credibility hung on finding socking great missiles that could take out England in 45 minutes, and I really believed those missiles existed, I would ensure there were a few more pairs of eyes on the job.

Then of course there are the considerable number of companions who should join Blair and Bush in the dock – from the war-mongering generals, to the individual pilots and missile operators who knew full well that they were killing defenceless civilians – never mind they were ‘only following orders’; from the ‘intelligence’…’experts’ who ‘sexed up’ reports, to the media owners and their editors who brainwashed the public into ‘supporting the troops’ bravely defending us in the ‘war on terror’.

Then executed.

It is time that those who were primarly responsible for these crimes should be brought to justice.