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EDO MBM deserted by their own lawyers!

no-war | 15.02.2005 23:58 | Anti-militarism | London | South Coast

The company EDO MBM has been deserted by its own lawyers, only


I have today received confirmation by e-mail from the law firm, RPC, confirming that they "no longer acting" for EDO MBM.

This is a major victory for the Smash EDO campaign!

RPC had sent a letter on 3 February telling Indymedia not to call EDO MBM "warmongers". This issue is documented in an article of 6 February here:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2005/02/304915.html

On 8 February I e-mailed Stephen Mayer of RPC and copied several EDO MBM staff.

Stephen Mayer did not reply, so on 14 February I e-mailed again asking for a response.

On 15 February, RPC replied confirming that they are no longer dealing with EDO MBM.

This shows that neither RPC nor EDO MBM can defend the indefensible:

EDO MBM has blood on its hands.
EDO MBM is a WARMONGER

For more info about the Smash EDO campaign, see here:
 http://smashedo.bpec.org/



Exhibit 1: E-mail from RPC confirming that they are no longer acting for EDO MBM


Subject: Response
From: "Email"
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:42:53 -0000

Thank you for your email.

We are no longer acting.

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain



Exhibit 2: E-mail to Stephen Mayer of RPC, sent on 8 February 2005 and chased up on 14 February 2005


To:  stephen.mayer@rpc.co.uk
Subject: EDO MBM
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:00:27 +0100
Cc:  paulh@edombmtech.co.uk,  celia@celiat.fsnet.co.uk,
 peter.davis@edombmtech.co.uk,  nick.guard@edombmtech.co.uk


Mr Mayer

I see from this news article:

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/304915.html

that EDO MBM, and your company, are trying to threaten freedom of speech and are also denying that EDO MBM is involved in the deaths of innocent people.

Could you please provide the evidence to prove that EDO MBM is *not* involved in creating products which cause injury and death to innocent people? I suspect that you will not be able to do so.

On the contrary, EDO MBM produces, according to its own press release:

"...weapon carriage and release systems, rugged portable computers and data storage products, cable assemblies and electrodynamic products for the aerospace and defense industries."
( http://www.edocorp.com/pr2004/04r0310.htm)

Thus, EDO MBM, by its own admission, is involved directly in creating products for the transport and "release" of weapons. This means dropping bombs on human beings. An EDO MBM weapons rack was part of the equipment onboard the F-16
aircraft which killed innocent people in Fallujah, Iraq, as you can see here:

 http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_2/07_iraq.html

In this incident, weapons were released from the F-16 aircraft, by an EDO MBM product, causing the death of the people shown in the picture.

F-16s, equipped with EDO MBM weapons racks, have also been used in Palestine to kill innocent people. I'll leave you to do the research on that for yourself.

So, why are you defending a company which clearly has blood on its hands?

Instead of asking people to stop telling the world about this company, why not demand that this company stops selling these weapons systems which are responsible for the injury and death of innocent people?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks & regards



no-war

Comments

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well done

16.02.2005 09:19

well done.... this goes to show that when well defined, intelligent direct action is taken against companies and organisations involved in profiting from murder ordinary people will stand up and put their consience first. Keep up the good work!

shardana


Perhaps they were dropped cos they are crap ;-)

16.02.2005 09:54

Perhaps legal skarks dropped EDO because they don't like wars, it would be cool if this is true.

But perhaps EDO fired them because they are rather crap -- they don't seem to have much of an understanding of how the internet works and their attempts to get Indymedia to remove material has been a failure...?

cynic


EXCELLENT!

16.02.2005 11:33

Smash EDO!

anti-imperialist


nice

16.02.2005 12:25

well done, no matter what the reason is for them ceasing to represent edo the split would not have occured without the sustained pressure of this campaign. lets keep fighting!

the snowball is rolling and its getting bigger every day

el gormo