Smash EDO chain and super-glue themselves to factory in war protest

9:03am Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter

Campaigners have chained and super-glued themselves to the the gates of a Brighton arms factory on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

A group of activists arrived at the EDO MBM factory at 6am and three of them affixed themselves to the gates using a bicycle lock and superglue.

The action was held to mark the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003.

Andrew Beckett, of Smash EDO, said: “We are here to commemorate those who died in the aerial bombardment of Iraq and to resist EDO.”

Sussex Police are due to comment shortly.

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Ohnotagain ! says...
9:33am Tue 19 Mar 13

Obviously not their signing on day !!

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NickBrt says...
9:35am Tue 19 Mar 13

I hope Caroline Lucas is there, if she can prise herself away from the squat in the old post Office. WOW! Two of her top priorities happening at once!! Good job her constituents aren't causing her any concern.

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monkeymoo says...
9:51am Tue 19 Mar 13

How did they affix themselves to the gates using a bicycle!?

Come on The Argus...proof read your articles before printing!!

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Crystal Ball says...
10:02am Tue 19 Mar 13

Show them a bar of soap. Now that will put the willies up them.

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kopite_rob says...
10:09am Tue 19 Mar 13

Yawn. This is getting boring now.
You've got to be a compass short of a pencil case to consider it a smart idea to glue yourself to an immovable object outside with rain and snow forecast.
How about leaving them there to figure out how to get themselves unstuck.

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stir up says...
10:21am Tue 19 Mar 13

I agee copite rob lets leave them stuck there and please nobody realease them.
Or stop therir friends trying to unglue them. I hope they get soaked to the skin, but of course this will mean they have to go to hospital and take up a really ill persons place. However this would probably please them if it turned out to be a soldier in need of a bed due to problems he got serving his country.

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John Steed says...
10:44am Tue 19 Mar 13

"what are they protesting about" they seem a bit mixed up.
the place to protest about the Iraq war is london, houses of parliament springs to mind, better still go to sadr city in bagdad and see if they can rustle up some local support. maybe glue themselves to locally homemade IED just to give their protest a bit of balance.
mean the old superglue protest is a bit old hat, personally if they glued themselves to my place I would happy to leave them there & spend the time mocking them, they just do not have a cause, hopefully they have been arrested for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. (protesting without due cause) total fools

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redwing says...
10:48am Tue 19 Mar 13

Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.

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fred clause says...
10:54am Tue 19 Mar 13

Ah the great unwashed return to protest in the wrong place about something they know nothing about leave em there to rot I say Hope Lucas is with them.

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pwlr1966 says...
11:03am Tue 19 Mar 13

Leave them there to rot, snow on Friday, bet they are gone by then.

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Surely not! says...
11:09am Tue 19 Mar 13

Well personally having had a wash and been working for three hours already this morning and a few more to go, the protesters have my full support. Its strange the way people on here get all het up when one group of thugs attacks someone in the streets of Brighton but if its Government sponsored thuggery suddenly they are all in favour. But then what do you lot do... why don't you get up there and stage a counter protest.

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paul76 says...
11:18am Tue 19 Mar 13

Surely not! wrote:
Well personally having had a wash and been working for three hours already this morning and a few more to go, the protesters have my full support. Its strange the way people on here get all het up when one group of thugs attacks someone in the streets of Brighton but if its Government sponsored thuggery suddenly they are all in favour. But then what do you lot do... why don't you get up there and stage a counter protest.
Great idea. There could be two groups of people pointlessly glued to gates.

It the unemployed unwashed are glued across two gates just open them and see what happens. Whats stronger, superglue or the human body?

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AmboGuy says...
11:41am Tue 19 Mar 13

Oh god this is really getting very tedious now. Why can't they get it into their thick skulls that we don't want them here. Glueing yourselves to things is so cliche now it's just laughable.

As people have said just leave them glued to the gates, it's no big loss to society. So have they all booked the time off work to do this then? I think we all know the question to that so there's really no need for anyone to speculate any further.

I just wonder what pearls of wisdom our resident SmashEDO thug Gaz Scott will have to inflict upon us regarding this story!

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Stripes says...
11:45am Tue 19 Mar 13

Adults supergluing themselves to a building?

I think social services need a call and detention under the mental health act is called for.

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Ballroom Blitz says...
12:00pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Yawn.... Zzzzzzzz

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Thetruth666 says...
12:03pm Tue 19 Mar 13

"A group of activists arrived at the EDO MBM factory at 6am and three of them affixed themselves to the gates using bicycle and superglue".Bicycle glue maybe?

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JHunty says...
12:38pm Tue 19 Mar 13

redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Meh

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Plunge says...
12:46pm Tue 19 Mar 13

....but Jeremy Kyle is on soon, plus they need to sign on at some point and its going to get a bit cold this week.....I don't think they have thought this through.....

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PJW Brighton says...
1:06pm Tue 19 Mar 13

redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Careful Redwing, compassion for people blown apart by British made weapons doesn't go down well amongst the on-line audience of the Argus!

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hursthill says...
1:40pm Tue 19 Mar 13

I hope 1 of those glued to the gates was tony greenstein.
-- In celebration of the fact that Iraqis were no longer on the receiving end of Saddam's chemical weapons.
- The 5,000 Kurds he slaughtered in just 1 attack are no longer available for interview.

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Flippin Burghers says...
2:17pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Is this some sort of breakaway group, Glue EDO?

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JHunty says...
2:39pm Tue 19 Mar 13

PJW Brighton wrote:
redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Careful Redwing, compassion for people blown apart by British made weapons doesn't go down well amongst the on-line audience of the Argus!
You don't have a monopoly on compassion for others. Most of us realise the world isn't as simple as SmashEdos childlike world view would have us believe.
Most of us are sick of Smashedo trying to take the moral high ground after ten years of lies and hypocrisy.
Not a single shred of evidence has been produced to back up their claims of illegal weapons manufacture or of illegal exports. It is clear from Neros recent trial that they don't have any evidence to back up these claims all they have is faulty logic, false assumptions and leaps of faith, no primary evidence at all.
Also, they have claimed again and again that the right to protest is sacred and a democratic right especially when ever their demos have been criticised yet last year they used violence to try and stop others from exercising those same rights on the MFE, how much more hypocritical can you get? One rule for them another for those they disagree with clearly, which shows they don't understand the concepts of rights in a democratic society but then again they are a fundamentally un democratic organisation.

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Hoarder12345444 says...
2:42pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Ah well this had to happen didn't it. And before anyone vilifies me, let me add this. I agree that the invasion of Iraq was justified, totally. Saddam had to go, plain and simple. Yes the whole WMD's issue was not based on facts, but there you go. The fact is Saddam was a brutal, horrible dictator and was unstable and a threat to the west. Iraq is a better country without him. And now they are re-building, and doing quite well according the well respected BBC's John Simpson. It always takes time, the country underwent massive changes. The civilians deaths as well as the military ones, well worth it in my view, just something you have to accept when a country goes through such change.

People were being brutalized and had no freedom under Saddam, now they have a better life. We should be disposing Assad in Syria too, he has massacred his own people and they are sufferering unimaginable pain there. It's horrendous. At least Blair had the balls to take on Saddam and take him out, it's was required, even though a lot will disagree. I respect him for that. He did a lot for this country and if I saw him in the street I would shake his hand.

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PJW Brighton says...
2:43pm Tue 19 Mar 13

JHunty wrote:
PJW Brighton wrote:
redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Careful Redwing, compassion for people blown apart by British made weapons doesn't go down well amongst the on-line audience of the Argus!
You don't have a monopoly on compassion for others. Most of us realise the world isn't as simple as SmashEdos childlike world view would have us believe.
Most of us are sick of Smashedo trying to take the moral high ground after ten years of lies and hypocrisy.
Not a single shred of evidence has been produced to back up their claims of illegal weapons manufacture or of illegal exports. It is clear from Neros recent trial that they don't have any evidence to back up these claims all they have is faulty logic, false assumptions and leaps of faith, no primary evidence at all.
Also, they have claimed again and again that the right to protest is sacred and a democratic right especially when ever their demos have been criticised yet last year they used violence to try and stop others from exercising those same rights on the MFE, how much more hypocritical can you get? One rule for them another for those they disagree with clearly, which shows they don't understand the concepts of rights in a democratic society but then again they are a fundamentally un democratic organisation.
So EDO make special compassionate weapons then?

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tooned_in says...
2:53pm Tue 19 Mar 13

I wonder If the Smash EDO bods will superglue themselves to their own houses when the UK comes under attack and thanks to their striling efforts we have no weapons & have to chase off invaders with sharp sticks & foul language??? or perhaps we pacify them with camomile tea whilst tiptoeing up to them whispers shhhh
There will always be wars & weapons will always be required, therefore someone will always build them its not, a battle they can win or do they just disagree with these weapons being built in the BN postcode?

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tenerifeisland says...
3:35pm Tue 19 Mar 13

who gives a stuff!! good luck to edo,hope they turn over billions of pounds,as for the scrouts glued , just ignore them and leave them

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PorkBoat says...
3:42pm Tue 19 Mar 13

PJW Brighton wrote:
redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Careful Redwing, compassion for people blown apart by British made weapons doesn't go down well amongst the on-line audience of the Argus!
Maybe they should go and demonstrate OUTSIDE AN ACTUAL WEAPONS FACTORY.

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wippasnapper says...
4:16pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Crystal Ball wrote:
Show them a bar of soap. Now that will put the willies up them.
Your give them a heart-attack the mere thought of having a wash would upset them

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wippasnapper says...
4:28pm Tue 19 Mar 13

stir up wrote:
I agee copite rob lets leave them stuck there and please nobody realease them.
Or stop therir friends trying to unglue them. I hope they get soaked to the skin, but of course this will mean they have to go to hospital and take up a really ill persons place. However this would probably please them if it turned out to be a soldier in need of a bed due to problems he got serving his country.
If we leave them there to get cold and wet we may never have to take up a bed in hospital because with a bit of luck they will die from Hyperthermia and then we would not have to worry about detaching them as they would collapse then detach themselves

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gaz scott says...
5:02pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Usual dumb comments from dumb people supporting dumb wars. Well done guys.

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wippasnapper says...
5:12pm Tue 19 Mar 13

hursthill wrote:
I hope 1 of those glued to the gates was tony greenstein.
-- In celebration of the fact that Iraqis were no longer on the receiving end of Saddam's chemical weapons.
- The 5,000 Kurds he slaughtered in just 1 attack are no longer available for interview.
I think your find Tony is not that much involved in protesting much these days and any hell this isn’t the type of protest he gets involved in and in if you knew Tony you would know he protest for the immoral human acts like the Israelis who are committing immoral acts agents the Palestinians or the immoral acts this Government is putting on the poor of this country but of cores you cant say anything good about a person you despise because what ever good they do they are bad in your eyes shame on you.

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hursthill says...
5:37pm Tue 19 Mar 13

wippasnapper - with friends like you, tony greenstein doesn't need enemies.

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george smith says...
6:36pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Surely there most be some EU funding thet could apply for and go and glue themselves to the wall in Israel.

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Smash EDO says...
7:29pm Tue 19 Mar 13

We fully support any action our members take to draw awareness to the illegal weapons of death being manufactured at EDO's factory in Lewes Road.

We will be increasing our protests after some time off and with our expanding support we will target other premises.

Anyone who doesn't support us has clearly not experienced bombs made by EDO raining down upon them.

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AmboGuy says...
8:36pm Tue 19 Mar 13

Words fail me.

With a spokesperson like that they have no chance!

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thommy says...
10:28pm Tue 19 Mar 13

The military wing of the green party are at it again. They have become so tedious with their ridiculous ideological garbage. These marxist morons are similar to the "useful idiots" from the labour party who in the past used to cheer stalin and his soviet mates on, while at the same time demonstrating at Aldermaston to get the west to destroy all their nasty weapons and become defenceless.

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gaz scott says...
10:55pm Tue 19 Mar 13

thommy wrote:
The military wing of the green party are at it again. They have become so tedious with their ridiculous ideological garbage. These marxist morons are similar to the "useful idiots" from the labour party who in the past used to cheer stalin and his soviet mates on, while at the same time demonstrating at Aldermaston to get the west to destroy all their nasty weapons and become defenceless.
Yes tedium does seem to be a theme here.

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Smash EDO says...
11:54pm Tue 19 Mar 13

thommy wrote:
The military wing of the green party are at it again. They have become so tedious with their ridiculous ideological garbage. These marxist morons are similar to the "useful idiots" from the labour party who in the past used to cheer stalin and his soviet mates on, while at the same time demonstrating at Aldermaston to get the west to destroy all their nasty weapons and become defenceless.
Whilst we enjoy some, mainly moral, support from the Green Party we at SmashEDO have no links to them whatsoever.

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doggle says...
12:21pm Wed 20 Mar 13

As just about everyone above has already noted...

Froth foam bleat gurgle froth froth knee-jerk cliche gurgle froth bubble.

Your usual compelling argument.

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PorkBoat says...
1:43pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Smash EDO wrote:
We fully support any action our members take to draw awareness to the illegal weapons of death being manufactured at EDO's factory in Lewes Road.

We will be increasing our protests after some time off and with our expanding support we will target other premises.

Anyone who doesn't support us has clearly not experienced bombs made by EDO raining down upon them.
Seems The Argus deleted the last comment I made in reply to this. There are no "illegal weapons of death" made at this factory, and no one has "experienced bombs made by EDO raining down on them". Why don't you protest outside a factory that actually makes weapons? And cut down on the melodramatics.

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Flippin Burghers says...
1:55pm Wed 20 Mar 13

I hope Smash EDO checked that the glue they used isn't made by companies that supply adhesives to arms manufacturers.

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JHunty says...
7:29pm Wed 20 Mar 13

PJW Brighton wrote:
JHunty wrote:
PJW Brighton wrote:
redwing wrote:
Readers of the above comments should note that the civilians and soldiers on the receiving end of EDO's weapon parts weren't available for interview.
Careful Redwing, compassion for people blown apart by British made weapons doesn't go down well amongst the on-line audience of the Argus!
You don't have a monopoly on compassion for others. Most of us realise the world isn't as simple as SmashEdos childlike world view would have us believe.
Most of us are sick of Smashedo trying to take the moral high ground after ten years of lies and hypocrisy.
Not a single shred of evidence has been produced to back up their claims of illegal weapons manufacture or of illegal exports. It is clear from Neros recent trial that they don't have any evidence to back up these claims all they have is faulty logic, false assumptions and leaps of faith, no primary evidence at all.
Also, they have claimed again and again that the right to protest is sacred and a democratic right especially when ever their demos have been criticised yet last year they used violence to try and stop others from exercising those same rights on the MFE, how much more hypocritical can you get? One rule for them another for those they disagree with clearly, which shows they don't understand the concepts of rights in a democratic society but then again they are a fundamentally un democratic organisation.
So EDO make special compassionate weapons then?
How many genocidal mass murdering dictators has Smashedo got rid of in its ten tedious years of existence?
None
How much proof has Smashedo provided to back up their claims of illegal exports and arms manufacture?
None

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