Can anyone tell me if there are any events on Friday 12th (preferably morning)? I have checked the Disarm DSEi web site, but their events only go up until the 11th.

getting the tube back from Queensway, not only was I pissed off to find that "lancaster Gate station is closed" didn't count if you were an arms dealer, but on expressing my opinion was told by cops "keep thoughts to yourself" if I wanted to continue my journey, while another bloke was dragged off the train.

don't normally rant about things like this but sometmes it just gets to you.

Great show, great week, sorry to say guys, but money was made and the industry is looking in better shape than it has for years. Should say thanks for all your 'street theatre' though - even if Samba isn't quite my thing! See you all at Farnborough next year, and better luck in 2005!

You do realise that everybody you know thinks you're scum?

We hope you had good fun playing soldiers. If you had any balls you'ld go to where you're weapons are being used, and see just how effective they are.

Its interesting that the cops told MYK to "keep his thoughts to himself". This is what they have to do. Many may see the hypocrisy of their position - nicking people for selling guns on the streets but protecting blokes in suits selling guns at a "fair". Most of the negative comments on these pages completely miss the point. One - Annoyed Local Resident - said "let me go home in peace", unfortunately those who find themselves on the recieving end of the weapons sold at DSEi dont get to go home in peace. In fact they may get home to find it's a pile of rubble. As for this twerp Mark, we are not and don't want to play soldiers, we've got more sense than to go where these weapons are used. Any twit who thinks that war is exciting or fun hasn't thought about what really goes on. War is as much fun as a motorway pile-up!

My comment about 'playing soldiers' was directed at the arms traders, 'free trader' in particular ("Great show, great week"). I saw them enjoying themselves playing on the big toys, and I found it sickening that they could get vicarious pleasure from something that causes so much misery. If they had seen first hand what these machines do they wouldn't think they were such fun.

Well-done free trader!

The UK defence industry is one of out flagship enterprises, and I must agree Dsei this year was particularly good (some very exciting development, and I must day the new Israeli small arms were about the most impressive, goes to show there’s no substitute for combat experience when it comes to designing reliable, useful kit.

In response to the people whining about the exhibition, well what can I say? If you want to spend week shouting at people who are just laughing at you, fine, and as for the security operation your nonsense caused, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

The police have VASTLY better things to be doing than chasing a bunch of middle class "rebels" around docklands (before they go off to be accountants in "daddies" firm). I come from a poor background and through hard work and ability I am now in a position where I can reap the benefits, that what capitalism is all about, and that why I love it, because if you work hard and are smart, nothing can stop you.

I can now afford to go on holiday a few times a year, I travel all over the world with my work and live in a nice rural house, and that is all due to my hard work, study and effort in the armed forces and since leaving working for a major defence contractor.

You complain about the UK defence industry, and complain that the liberation of Iraq was a terrible thing. You’ll find that the UK defence industry is one of our strongest and most innovative sectors, one of the few areas we still lead the world in, and as for moaning about Iraq, if you stop the average Iraqi they will shake your hand and thank you for saving them fro Saddam, and it is only a tiny minority who are fighting, but these are the people who have most to loose if Iraq joins the UK and US in the camp of democracy and freedom (and before you moan that we are not free, try complaining the way you do about the government in Cuba, North Korea, Syria etc and see how long you last lol).

What I really don’t get, what you don’t seem to understand, is that not only are we winning the war on terror (35% LESS terrorist incidents world wide since the liberation of Afghanistan), but that we are the good guys in all of this. We are protecting our own nations interests and our own people, and that all that matters.

I am damn proud to have played my part throughout my whole adult life in defending the UK, as a soldier and working in defence, and yes I have seen what these weapons do up close and personal (which I doubt 99.9% of the "activist" movement have) and no, its not pretty, but if the UK and out allies are not equipped with the best combat systems which money can buy, it will be our troops, not our enemies who will be the ones on the receiving end, and the whole point of war is not to die for your country, but make the other guy die for his. War is an unpleasant but in some cases necessary endeavour, because at the moment we in the west are under attack from not only outside our borders, but from subversive elements within, and its about time that the activists realised this and done their bit, instead of moaning, because some of you are quite clearly intelligent people who could have glittering careers in the armed forces, police or in the defence industry if you would just grow out of you political silliness a bit earlier. Yes I know its very fashionable and makes you feel like some sort of student radical/left wing intellectual etc, but student radicals grow up and left wing intellectuals end up teaching philosophy (or some equally useless subject) at university, which is fine because they have their FREEDOM to do that, freedom hard won with the blood of British and American soldiers worldwide.

What makes me the most sick though is when I think on friends of mine who have been killed, and the disrespect that its shown to them by so called "political" activists? You may disagree with something, but as soon as the military are engaged in fighting a war, your petty beliefs become irrelevant and the important things are the troops fighting and their families. How would you like to be lying bleeding to death at the side of the road in Iraq, knowing that if you die your parents will be bombarded with some idiots moaning about the war, trivialising your sacrifice? Knowing that your family will not receive time to grieve because the television constantly spouts anti war nonsense at them.

If you are going to whine, at least have the dignity to do it when the troops come home, and not while there is a chance of taking casualties, for the sake of the families.