Bartender places Tony Blair under citizen's arrest for unprovoked war against Iraq

Nope.

Mugabe is obviously a much worse criminal but ‘citizens arrests’ of politicians are self-indulgent nonsense. Democracy means relying on and working through the institutions, not declaring yourself to be the instrument of the true law and arresting politicians you don’t like.

What would you think if some rightwing nutjob tried to make a citizens arrest of Bill Clinton or Barak Obama?

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