video of Vancouver protest here
Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
A protester wearing a Dick Cheney mask stands in front of a police line during a demonstration against the former U.S. vice-president's speaking engagement at the Vancouver Club on Sept. 26, 2011.
photo c/o The Globe and Mail
...ever since Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998 and spent the next year and a half fighting extradition to Spain to face charges of having ordered and condoned torture during his regime, ever since the British House of Lords (equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) judged that it was valid to indict a head of state for human rights abuses in a country other than the one where those abuses had been committed, the specter of that decision and that fate has haunted rulers and former rulers everywhere....
