Break-in at controversial factory (From The Argus)

The people responsible must be nothing but morons, thugs and criminals.

Extensive damage could translate to job losses in Brighton.

The protestors have their own agenda, and it's nothing to do with their anti-war facade.

And another thing - what is controversial about the factory? I had thought that it was the demonstrations that were controversial.

strange we do not like explosives on our buses underground hotels etc, but it is ok to send explosives into Israel

You've tried to simplify Stan but got it wrong. Breaking into factories is a criminal act, bombing buses and trains is a criminal act - both should be punished. If it is decided that Israel has overreacted to Hamas aggression then they should be punished too.

I hope EDO DO re-locate out of the area, and then the protestors can face the people who have lsot their jobs face to face.

These criminals are simply mis-guided lental eating, pot smoking, layabouts

They are idealists. Do they think that if EDO shuts down it will mean the end of all wars!!! They mean well but will succeed only in destroying jobs.

One life taken inhumanely anywhere in the world, including Gaza, is worth more than a factory or its equipment.

Why is it that when the Palestinians have their military targets located in civilian areas, it's seem as some cynical, reckless attempt to use non-combatants as a human shield, and yet when a Western arms manufacturer has a factory situated a couple of hundred yards away from an estate inhabited by students and working-class families, nobody makes the same accusations?

stickman wrote:
You've tried to simplify Stan but got it wrong. Breaking into factories is a criminal act, bombing buses and trains is a criminal act - both should be punished. If it is decided that Israel has overreacted to Hamas aggression then they should be punished too.

I thought they were raiding it because of Israels attacks on Gaza, as they appear to believe Islamic attacks are Ok on Israel, my point is that we do not like Islamic attacks on out underground and buses

So how come an 'arms' factory, and a scene of previous demos and mindless vandalism was such a soft target as to allow these morons easy access? Cost of security getting in the way of profit?

Let's get one or 2 facts right.
Firstly, it is NOT an 'arms factory'.
They manufacture electrical components that are used in guided missile systems. They also make similar products for civilian aircraft. They are NOT arms manufacturers. They are an electronics firm, SOME of whose products are used in weapons guidance systems.
The reason they are constantly being hassled by the so called 'smash EDO' rent-a-mob is because they are a soft target. If this lot are so bothered, why don't they attack the factories where the bombs, missiles, etc are actually made? Answer - because it's too difficult.

This lot are just mindless hooligans, who should get a life

Whilst the people of Gaza have been slaughtered in their homes, schools and mosques world leaders have stood by and done nothing. Israel is committing war crimes. We can choose to stand by and do nothing or take action to stop this massacre. All over the world people are out on the street protesting. In Greece the ports refused to handle US arms shipments to Israel. Israeli companies are reporting that orders for their goods are being cancelled as international civil society takes action to boycott the brutal apartheid regime in Israel. We can all do something to support the people of Gaza. Well done to the 'decommissioners' for the contribution they have made.

SandraSandra wrote:
Whilst the people of Gaza have been slaughtered in their homes, schools and mosques world leaders have stood by and done nothing. Israel is committing war crimes. We can choose to stand by and do nothing or take action to stop this massacre. All over the world people are out on the street protesting. In Greece the ports refused to handle US arms shipments to Israel. Israeli companies are reporting that orders for their goods are being cancelled as international civil society takes action to boycott the brutal apartheid regime in Israel. We can all do something to support the people of Gaza. Well done to the 'decommissioners' for the contribution they have made.

I agree with everything you say - apart from the last sentence. How is it EDO's fault what the Israelis are doing in Gaza?
If you take your argument to its logical conclusion, you should be attacking all the factories that make anything to do with weapons and bombs - down to the nuts and bolts, but I don't see anyone doing that.
Indeed it could be argued that the guidance systems that EDO manufacture parts for actually decrease civilian casualties because they allow the bombs to target more accurately.
Attack the REAL enemy, not the easy targets.

lol so the security at this 'controversial' factory was pretty tight then?
Night-watchman asleep in his hut watching VHS repeats of Dad's Army, was he?

Demonstration is fine, this is part of the British way of life, however "SMASH EDO" have nothing to do with peaceful protest, they exist simply to cause criminal damage, harass people, and intimidate.

This is not acceptable, neither is the Hamas group which seized power in Gaza and have randomly targeted areas in Israel, at least Israel has clinically (if there can ever be a clinical kill) targetted houses of Hamas, weapons dumps etc.

As an ordinary Brighton resident (or Brighton Citizen as EDO would no doubt say), I do not support either side in this argument, just pointing out the reported facts.

Stop the harassment of this company, and resort to proper peaceful action, I know of nobody in my area that thinks you are doing the right thing.

Smash EDO does not have my support, they are simply thugs.

Er, Hamas were VOTED into power in Gaza by an election,
just as the IRA were VOTED into their Northern Ireland assembly seats, which IRA Grand-High-Commander
-of-teh-Fleets Martin Maguinness currently Deputy First Minister.


Does this mean we can bomb Belfast? I hope so! lol SPIDE CULL!

feline1 wrote:
Er, Hamas were VOTED into power in Gaza by an election, just as the IRA were VOTED into their Northern Ireland assembly seats, which IRA Grand-High-Commander -of-teh-Fleets Martin Maguinness currently Deputy First Minister. Does this mean we can bomb Belfast? I hope so! lol SPIDE CULL!

lol, oh fair enough!
Doesn't make either side right though, or the SMASH EDO thugs.

Nonsense, Greengrocer- Martin Maguinness was RIGHT to murder all those people, it was a VALID POLITICAL STATEMENT on his part, and why all IRA convicts were released from prison under the Good Friday Agreement.
You sound to me like an ENEMY OF THE PEACE PROCESS! :)

How can smashing up an industrial unit stop a company?

They smash up the place, fine. So now what? EDO MBM claim on their insurance policy to replace all their damaged equipment, that's good, I suppose they could do with updating their equipment, they put all their backed up data into the new machines and off they go and no cost to them... but the insurance company have to hike their premiums up next year and we will have to pay more for these mindless thugs actions.

Why don't they go after the insurance company and their staff for supporting 'an arms factory' because they are just as guilty.

Don't these morons think before they head off to destroy places?

"Demonstration fine", effecively stopping this arms factory from functioning and in doing so contributing to the rising death toll in Gaza 'unBritish'? I have felt very impotent seeing new unspeakable atrocities being committed every day (mostly unreported on mainstream news channels), attending demonstrations and being ignored by politicians, misrepresented in the media, and indiscriminately attacked by the police who's function it is to protect (corporate) property over people. It is time for urgent action. Arms factories not welcome in Brighton. Very well done.

Peaceful protest nearly never works, which is why people resort to violence.

Remember the demonstration, I think it was the biggest ever, in London against the second Gulf war? Tony Bliar said "I have heard you", then ignored it as if it meant nothing.

Politicians treat people as sheep. They don't like it when a few of those sheep turn into poachers.

MorrisonMorrison wrote:
"Demonstration fine", effecively stopping this arms factory from functioning and in doing so contributing to the rising death toll in Gaza 'unBritish'? I have felt very impotent seeing new unspeakable atrocities being committed every day (mostly unreported on mainstream news channels), attending demonstrations and being ignored by politicians, misrepresented in the media, and indiscriminately attacked by the police who's function it is to protect (corporate) property over people. It is time for urgent action. Arms factories not welcome in Brighton. Very well done.

'Arms factories not welcome in Brighton'.
Are you all being brainwashed by the 'Smash EDO' brigade?
It's not an 'arms factory'. It manufactures electronic components, some of which end up in guided missile systems. A lot of the components they manufacture end up in civilian aircraft.
I'm completely open to public demonstration against the Israeli atrocities that have been committed against the Palestinians over the last 60 years.
But EDO don't have anything to do with this problem, and to say they do is misleading in the extreme.
Go and demonstrate against the manufacturers of the actual warheads, if you want to do something that might actually be useful.

I don't see what the fuss is all about. I've been blown up by guided missiles several times, and quite frankly I didn't need those limbs anyways, they were just dead weight.
Moreover, think how much worse it could've been if the missiles WEREN'T guided!

I always dreaded Moulscoomb getting "the bomb".

Go back Bomber Harris days o ww2, he didn't have anyfing like giudid missiles, all he used was a saturation system of bombing. It done a lot more damage than having targets picked out like nowadaze.
Dresden comes to mind.
I'll telyou now there will never ever be peace between the arab and the jew!!!!!
So stick that in your hubble bubble pipe and smoke it.
Must get back tutbar, beers getting flat.

feline1 wrote:
Nonsense, Greengrocer- Martin Maguinness was RIGHT to murder all those people, it was a VALID POLITICAL STATEMENT on his part, and why all IRA convicts were released from prison under the Good Friday Agreement. You sound to me like an ENEMY OF THE PEACE PROCESS! :)

feline, you have completely the WRONG END OF THE STICK! I was talking about your comment about Hamas being voted in, not the rest of it! LOL!!!!!

Many of us have been deeply saddened by the treatment of the Palestinians over the past 40 years. Deprived of much of their homeland,tricked out of most of their water supplies, and finding themselves stateless second class citizens. This latest attack on Gaza is just the latest in a long history of violence stretching back into pre-history. Violence of both sides begets more violence. Northern Ireland shows that only forgiveness can bring peace. Why should Brighton jobs depend on perpetuating conflict in the Holy Land?

brooksby wrote:
Many of us have been deeply saddened by the treatment of the Palestinians over the past 40 years. Deprived of much of their homeland,tricked out of most of their water supplies, and finding themselves stateless second class citizens. This latest attack on Gaza is just the latest in a long history of violence stretching back into pre-history. Violence of both sides begets more violence. Northern Ireland shows that only forgiveness can bring peace. Why should Brighton jobs depend on perpetuating conflict in the Holy Land?

They don't. Read my previous posts.

brooksby wrote:
Many of us have been deeply saddened by the treatment of the Palestinians over the past 40 years. Deprived of much of their homeland,tricked out of most of their water supplies, and finding themselves stateless second class citizens. This latest attack on Gaza is just the latest in a long history of violence stretching back into pre-history. Violence of both sides begets more violence. Northern Ireland shows that only forgiveness can bring peace. Why should Brighton jobs depend on perpetuating conflict in the Holy Land?

Why should ignorant thugs wreck a factory because of tenuous and invented contentions with their beliefs? They are not targetting their efforts logically. Politicians perpetuate the conflict - not manufacturers of bits that get used in bits that get used in bits in fighter aircraft. Isn't that obvious?

But that disconnection is irrelavent. The Smash EDO brigade is simply feeding off the glorious violence and hate that they seem to be able to generate. It's their way of life. If EDO actually did move out of Brighton, they would be disappointed and would have to find some other target.

And the effect of moving EDO out of Brighton would not affect arms production in any way, however you look at it.

Osama bin there wrote:

brooksby wrote:
Many of us have been deeply saddened by the treatment of the Palestinians over the past 40 years. Deprived of much of their homeland,tricked out of most of their water supplies, and finding themselves stateless second class citizens. This latest attack on Gaza is just the latest in a long history of violence stretching back into pre-history. Violence of both sides begets more violence. Northern Ireland shows that only forgiveness can bring peace. Why should Brighton jobs depend on perpetuating conflict in the Holy Land?

They don't. Read my previous posts.

Erm, they do depend on middle eastern conflict to keep them in business. They sell weapons components to Israel- therefore the jobs there do depend on that conflict. If there was none, the factory would not exist.

Check out EDO/MBM's own website, the front page has lots of pictures of bombs and fighter jets on it. Does that really look like they want to give the impression they're a company that primarily manufactures systems for 'civilian aircraft', as you say? There is more than enough evidence of them supplying components to the Israeli Air Force, components which are essential to them being able to drop bombs and fire missiles and in turn murder civilians in the Gaza Strip. Israel are categorically committing war crimes in Gaza, war crimes that would not be possible without these systems.

What these activists have done is to step in where the police and government won't, to stop these systems being made and crimes taking place. EDO's directors are aware of where their products are going and what they're being used for and are thus complicit in, and profiting from, war crimes.

The Raytheon 9 were aquitted for causing substantial damage to an arms factory because products made there were being used in an illegal war when Israel attacked Lebanon, read up on them.

You call these people 'rent-a-mob' but if they're willing to be arrested and quite obviously risk their personal liberty because they feel so strongly about something then it's clear your 'rent-a-mob' accusation is loaded nonsense.

By the way, ITT had great relationships with Hitler, Franco, Pinochet and continue to have with plenty of other corrupt, fascistic and tyrannical reigimes. Keep on sticking up for them!

Peaceful protest does not work and our version of 'democracy' is an illusion. I give my support to those involved in taking this action and hope very much they will be aquitted.

"By the way, ITT had great relationships with Hitler, Franco, Pinochet and continue to have with plenty of other corrupt, fascistic and tyrannical reigimes. Keep on sticking up for them!"

So did Germany. Should we now wreck Germany again?

Some individuals will celebrate activism for its own twisted sake. Nothing can make their cause right, and the weak arguments above just expose their silliness.

Fortunately, the vast majority of Brightonians dismiss them as nutters - that's all it needs in the end.

Well done those activists. Whilst EDO makes weaponry & ships it to Israel & other war-mongering states, we are all tainted with their bloodshed. As for these middle Englanders who cry shock & horror, how about you all lift your nose from the feedtrough long enough to realise just what role the UK plays in the world as an aid to the US & Israeli militaristic adventures in imperialism. Time we took a stand for decency - not for making weapons for killing. These activists deserve our support & praise not your condemnation

oyl wrote:
"By the way, ITT had great relationships with Hitler, Franco, Pinochet and continue to have with plenty of other corrupt, fascistic and tyrannical reigimes. Keep on sticking up for them!"

So did Germany. Should we now wreck Germany again?

Some individuals will celebrate activism for its own twisted sake. Nothing can make their cause right, and the weak arguments above just expose their silliness.

Fortunately, the vast majority of Brightonians dismiss them as nutters - that's all it needs in the end.

Germany are not a private company making weapons systems on our doorsteps that are used in illegal wars so, no, I don't suggest we 'wreck them'.

ITT were making cash payments to Heinrich Himmler and the SS pretty much up until the end of WW2... To the people who blather on with 'people fought for your freedom to protest blah blah'- this company were paying the people you were fighting against! This company were paying the people whose crimes against humanity warranted the state of Israel to be created in the first place! Convenient, hey? This company paid for the military coup in Chile to overthrow the democratically elected government and install a fascistic military dictatorship in the early 1970s.

Call me cynical but I somehow don't think they've particularly developed any moral backbone in that time and don't think we should give them the benefit of the doubt.

THEY

The irony is is that the Israeli army invaded West Bank areas in 2002, I think it was 2002, ransacked cultural centres among other buildings, stole money and jewellery, and left excrement on children`s paintings.

The Israeli military does target civilians, just as Hamas has done, and there doesn`t have to be anyone shooting at them at the time either! Israel tends to kill more civilians. Fact. Don`t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. They`ve been doing it since before Hamas was created. Children have been shot at close range in Gaza. Houses bombarded, women and children shot at while carrying white flags;areas bulldozed; civilians shot at when trying to find refuge at hospitals, which have been hit by the Israeli military. Sandra Locke, a British woman at a hospital, is one witness. The UN says no firing has come from their buildings, and the Israelis have later admitted the UN was telling the truth.

Tom Hurndall, James Miller, Iain Hook were all Britons deliberately targetted by the Israeli army.

Don`t ever forget that Israel murdered US sailors on the USS Liberty, even shooting at them while they were in lifeboats. They tried to lie about that, but thankfully, surviving sailors say the Stars and Stripes was being flown! Bit hard to miss that! There is a site run by survivors who are angry about the cover-up by the US and Israel. Israel was hoping Egypt would get the blame and the US was getting ready to launch a nuclear attack on Egypt because of it. Imagine lying and seeing thousands of innocent people die as a result of that lie. Tony Blair has done that and they made him bloody 'Middle East Peace Envoy'! That`s sick satire.

Palestineremembered.
com recounts the massacres and complete devastation of towns and villages by terrorist gangs (one led by Rabin, no less). Good video section on the site.

Livni`s father helped plan the bombing of the King David Hotel, killing British personnel.

Hamas - which has some faults to put it mildly! - were elected because the Palestinian people had enough of the corruption of the Fateh run Palestinian Authority and because Abbas seems more interested in sucking up to Israel and the US.

Olmert now says he cares about all the children and innocents killed. If he cared he wouldn`t have targetted them with the embargo, rather than just the Hamas leadership. For years the Israeli navy has shot at Gazan fishing boats. Israel broke the ceaefire on the 4th November.

Unfortunately, Israel and the US has seen fit to help extremists rather than the nationalist and secular groups and decent people in the Middle East who don`t support terrorism. All the more to control the resources. They helped create Hamas with the help of Saudi money.

Read Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Amira Haas, Sara Roy to find out about what has been done and is still being done to the Palestinian people. They are all Jewish writers as well. No doubt they will be called 'self-hating Jews'.

Recent article by Sara Roy:

http://www.lrb.co.uk
/v31/n01/print/roy_0
1_.html

A recent one from Stephen Zunes, entitled...'America'
s Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power':

http://www.alternet.
org/audits/116855/am
erica%27s_hidden_rol
e_in_hamas%27s_rise_
to_power/

Sorry, yet another recent one! From Avi Shlaim...

'In the three years after the withdrawal from Gaza, 11 Israelis were killed by rocket fire. On the other hand, in 2005-7 alone, the IDF killed 1,290 Palestinians in Gaza, including 222 children.'

http://www.guardian.
co.uk/world/2009/jan
/07/gaza-israel-pale
stine

Mr nothing head wrote:

Osama bin there wrote:

brooksby wrote: Many of us have been deeply saddened by the treatment of the Palestinians over the past 40 years. Deprived of much of their homeland,tricked out of most of their water supplies, and finding themselves stateless second class citizens. This latest attack on Gaza is just the latest in a long history of violence stretching back into pre-history. Violence of both sides begets more violence. Northern Ireland shows that only forgiveness can bring peace. Why should Brighton jobs depend on perpetuating conflict in the Holy Land?

They don't. Read my previous posts.

Erm, they do depend on middle eastern conflict to keep them in business. They sell weapons components to Israel- therefore the jobs there do depend on that conflict. If there was none, the factory would not exist. Check out EDO/MBM's own website, the front page has lots of pictures of bombs and fighter jets on it. Does that really look like they want to give the impression they're a company that primarily manufactures systems for 'civilian aircraft', as you say? There is more than enough evidence of them supplying components to the Israeli Air Force, components which are essential to them being able to drop bombs and fire missiles and in turn murder civilians in the Gaza Strip. Israel are categorically committing war crimes in Gaza, war crimes that would not be possible without these systems. What these activists have done is to step in where the police and government won't, to stop these systems being made and crimes taking place. EDO's directors are aware of where their products are going and what they're being used for and are thus complicit in, and profiting from, war crimes. The Raytheon 9 were aquitted for causing substantial damage to an arms factory because products made there were being used in an illegal war when Israel attacked Lebanon, read up on them. You call these people 'rent-a-mob' but if they're willing to be arrested and quite obviously risk their personal liberty because they feel so strongly about something then it's clear your 'rent-a-mob' accusation is loaded nonsense. By the way, ITT had great relationships with Hitler, Franco, Pinochet and continue to have with plenty of other corrupt, fascistic and tyrannical reigimes. Keep on sticking up for them! Peaceful protest does not work and our version of 'democracy' is an illusion. I give my support to those involved in taking this action and hope very much they will be aquitted.

Excellent so if peaceful protest does not work can I do what I want as well to get what I want?...Down that path lies our own conflict, our own genocides, our own civil war.

Hamas are far from the innocent party - check out http://uk.youtube.co
m/watch?v=xtsvjB8efK
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You will need a strong stomach...if they do that to their own ...what kind of animals are they?

Let them fight it out and if we can earn a few pounds on the way...so what?

Matty B wrote:
Sorry, yet another recent one! From Avi Shlaim...

'In the three years after the withdrawal from Gaza, 11 Israelis were killed by rocket fire. On the other hand, in 2005-7 alone, the IDF killed 1,290 Palestinians in Gaza, including 222 children.'

http://www.guardian.

co.uk/world/2009/jan

/07/gaza-israel-pale

stine

Look, I have no time for religious extremism on either side. But I know quite a bit about the formation of the state of Israel, by the British government of the time.
There is no doubt the the Palestinians were cheated, and then within a couple of years Israel unilaterally declared independence, outside the terms of the agreement, completely unopposed by the western world. And so it has been ever since.
People forget that so called Israeli freedom fighters massacred Palestinian villages in 1948/49.
My sympathies are totally with the Palestinian civilians, but not with Hamas.
However, all of this has nothing to do with EDO, and I wish people would stop making such facile links.

William of Orange,

Peaceful protest rarely works. It is why countries have armed forces. You can talk forever (protest) but get nowhere. Might is right. History has shown that over and over.

It is no different for those people who have broken into EDO.

Osama BT:-

Unfortunately components that were manufactured at EDO have been found in the remains of munitions targeting civilian areas during the bombing of Lebanon 2 years ago.

Also Jane's Defence Weekly list EDO as a supplier to the Israeli military.

If EDO would convert tomorrow to making civilian electronics, as other factories have done in the past then these protests would stop.

Sim1 wrote:
Osama BT:-

Unfortunately components that were manufactured at EDO have been found in the remains of munitions targeting civilian areas during the bombing of Lebanon 2 years ago.

Also Jane's Defence Weekly list EDO as a supplier to the Israeli military.

If EDO would convert tomorrow to making civilian electronics, as other factories have done in the past then these protests would stop.

Yes, but if it wasn't EDO it would be someone else. They aren't bombing anyone, and the stuff they produce is electronic, not the warhead.
It is the Israelis who are using what they produce, arguably illegally. It is they who should be demonstrated against, not EDO.
EDO do make products for civilian use as well.
I know this is a difficult one, but I just can't condone what the Smash EDO lot do, anymore than I can what the Israelis are doing in Gaza.

Osama:-

The If it weren't me it would be someone else argument has yet so save a single drug dealer from prison.

Why should we accept it for something even more lethal?

In fact it might not even be true as there is one set of devices made by EDO that is custom built for the Israeli Air Force and them alone.

If I give a knife to someone knowing they might immediately use it to kill someone innocent I would be an accessory to murder.

Like I say, if EDO can make civilian products then they should, there are plenty of civilian aircraft out there...

bibble wrote:
William of Orange, Peaceful protest rarely works. It is why countries have armed forces. You can talk forever (protest) but get nowhere. Might is right. History has shown that over and over. It is no different for those people who have broken into EDO.

Hmmm...so if EDO decided that the Police were inept, unwilling or unable to protect their lawful business ... and EDO then decided to hire some armed thugs (sorry private security) to deal with the protestors you would have no issue with that? Because might (as you say) is right after all. Or is it only your "might" that is right?

I suspect you would have an issue if they did that. Assuming you were not one of the ones dealt with in which case you would be beyond caring at that point!

Targetting EDO is a bit like picking on a steel works because they make metal that goes into tanks/planes etc!...why aren't we seeing protests outside Welsh steelworks - they make the raw material for bomb casings etc (assuming we have any steelworks left in this almost wholly service based economy!)? I'll tell you why...because you know you'd get short shrift from a couple of hundred Welsh steelworkers. Basically you wouldn't leave the Welsh valleys alive! So you pick on the perceived weak link.
One day you will find the weak link doesn't break and either we will have a Government that stands up to you (not this one obviously but their days are well and truly numbered)...or worse still the weak link will hire its own people to deal with you.

Be careful what you wish for...you might get it!

Since there seems to be some disagreement in the above posts about the rights and wrongs of this issue, may I make a suggestion.

Meet outside the magistrates courts in Edward Road, Brighton, Monday at about 10 a.m. so that you can all engage in face to face peaceful discussion, while the protesters are inside, facing charges.

Whilst our government encourages this industry of murder, I have no problem at all with this kind of protest. The sooner this firm leaves goes out of business the better. Anyone with a conscience could not work for these people, so my sympathy for any job losses would be equal to that for the people dropping their products on the innocent.

once again smash edo have got there facts wrong !!!! and for a so called group wanting peace this is a funny way of going about it

Ronald wrote:
So how come an 'arms' factory, and a scene of previous demos and mindless vandalism was such a soft target as to allow these morons easy access? Cost of security getting in the way of profit?

because ronald smash edo have there facts wrong as usual if what they say is true security would be tight there !

Surely no one should be surprised by the attack on EDO. I’m amazed it hasn’t happened to them before, or any other company who trades with or sells Israeli goods.

Clearly those who earn their living by being involved in goods supplied to or brought from a country like Israel that kill innocent woman and children can’t have a conscience and are proberly less than human.

Interesting how the words 'Israel' and 'Gaza' have only been mentioned by the Smash EDO lot since the recent Israeli offensive started.

How convenient for them.

Sorry Osama,

Wrong again, they've been mentioned repeatedly, including during court cases.

In fact supply to Israel has been one of the reasons for opposition to the factory since the very beginning.