Anti-arms protesters plan "final push" on Brighton factory (From The Argus)

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  Benwhitechapel wrote:
  Theres some much flawed logic its mad:
  
  1) There is a massive difference between targeting a company that manufactures the release mechanism and a company that manufactures paint that may be used on the bombs because the mechanism can only be used for one purpose and one purpose only, to release bombs, the paint could be used to paint a million things. Also the release mechanism is purpose built to fit bombs released from F-16 fighter jets, used by the USA and sold to israel (and yes there is evidence of this, the court victory a couple of weeks ago couldnt have been won without it.) and therefore there is a direct link between the products manufactured at EDO/MBM and war crimes committed in Israel (or by the US in iraq for that matter) Also, yes we do protest the production of things like gun powder, there has been a campaign against companies like heckler & koch for years now (dont moan about the lack of success, it only shows your compliance in ANYTHING thrown at you, this stuff takes years.)
  
  2) Although some of us go to places like palestine to distribute aid and "stand in front of tanks" this tends to end with dead activists (4 british ones this year so far i think) and one dead activist is one less activist, and our resources are stretched anyway. On top of this the old saying 'prevention is better than cure' springs to mind, and as EDO have the contract for this release mechanism they are therefore the only company who produce it - If EDO are stopped it will - at least temporarily - put a stop to the manufacture of the bombs altogether. When smashEDO attacked the factory at the beginning of 2009 they did so much damage that EDO nearly lost the contract completely, showing that they obviously threw a massive spanner in the works of Israel and their US sponsors war machine.
  
  3) If smashEDO are "vandals" then they are "vandals" for a good reason, (whilst I hate using these examples they are the most well known) ghandi was a vandal, mandela was an vandal and it is for this reason - They were not there to ask, they were there to tell them to end what they were doing and the same is true of smashEDO today, they are not asking EDO to end their compliance in war crimes, they are there to force them to.

  How do you feel about going to Iran to protest about people being put to death by stoning for adultery. I would hazard a guess that you choose to protest about Israel because it is a soft option and compared to Iran is a fairly liberal country. However as I do not live in either country or have never been to either country I am not really in a position to comment"
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