Three Activists Charged With £32,000 Criminal Damage to Raytheon Rooftop!
Radio Roofer | 11.06.2009 22:53 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | South Coast | World
Three people have been charged with £32,000 worth of criminal damage to the Raytheon Rooftop between december 2008 and january this year, around the time Israel bombarded Gaza with weapons made by Raytheon . One of the charged Elijah Smith was heard saying "I am the accuser not the accused".
campin in the cold mid december 08 till mid january 09
Rooftop Occupiers VS Raythen - Bristol Crown Court
Raytheon should be in the dock they are the worlds biggest producer of missiles and poisoned countless civilians and soldiers with Dupleted Uranium. One of the defendants Tom Woodhead said "the damage to the roof is extremely questionable but £32,000 is insignificant compared to the countless amount of damage and sorrow caused by Raytheon's evil and illegal weaponry".
Raytheon is enabling Israeli forces to engage in practices that violate international law, UN Resolutions and the human rights of the Palestinian people through being a major manufacturer of munitions used by the Israeli army. Raytheon has also supplied electronic equipment for the Israeli Wall. Fragments of Raytheon weapons have been found in Lebanon and more recently a school in the Gaza strip.
Raytheon's Paveway guided bomb system, was “the most widely used precision munition in Operation Iraqi Freedom. More than 8,700 were dropped.” We are all now well aware of the illegal basis of the Iraqi war, its failure to find any WMD’s and its ongoing toll on the civilian population.
Raytheon also invented the 'silent guardian' a crowd control sytem that uses microwaves to make crowds of people unable to act by heating them up and causing nausia. And watch out calais campers they have a 1.3 billion contract for CCTV system's on the British border's.
On 11 June 2008, by a unanimous verdict of the jury, the Raytheon 9 were found not guilty of three counts of criminal damage at the Raytheon offices,valued at £300,000 , in Derry Northern Ireland on 9 August 2006. With this president being set under British law, some of the Bristol defendants are optimistic of similar verdict but they will need your help thanks for reading, watch this space.
Raytheon should be in the dock they are the worlds biggest producer of missiles and poisoned countless civilians and soldiers with Dupleted Uranium. One of the defendants Tom Woodhead said "the damage to the roof is extremely questionable but £32,000 is insignificant compared to the countless amount of damage and sorrow caused by Raytheon's evil and illegal weaponry".
Raytheon is enabling Israeli forces to engage in practices that violate international law, UN Resolutions and the human rights of the Palestinian people through being a major manufacturer of munitions used by the Israeli army. Raytheon has also supplied electronic equipment for the Israeli Wall. Fragments of Raytheon weapons have been found in Lebanon and more recently a school in the Gaza strip.
Raytheon's Paveway guided bomb system, was “the most widely used precision munition in Operation Iraqi Freedom. More than 8,700 were dropped.” We are all now well aware of the illegal basis of the Iraqi war, its failure to find any WMD’s and its ongoing toll on the civilian population.
Raytheon also invented the 'silent guardian' a crowd control sytem that uses microwaves to make crowds of people unable to act by heating them up and causing nausia. And watch out calais campers they have a 1.3 billion contract for CCTV system's on the British border's.
On 11 June 2008, by a unanimous verdict of the jury, the Raytheon 9 were found not guilty of three counts of criminal damage at the Raytheon offices,valued at £300,000 , in Derry Northern Ireland on 9 August 2006. With this president being set under British law, some of the Bristol defendants are optimistic of similar verdict but they will need your help thanks for reading, watch this space.
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12.06.2009 06:19
The protest camp on the roof of the bristol
office lasted weeks got liitle coverage in the corporate press, but this case will (once again) expose the Raytheon death machine to the light of day.
In the process the legal estabishment (on behalf of the corporate monsters) will try and hit them with trumped up charges
well done tom, elijah and all, for their courage and commitment in their actions against Raytheon.
Whatever the outcome of their trial they have already inspred many more of us to do more to shut down these fuckers.
As for two wrongs dont make a right- The point is that in the circumstrances of what they get up to any damage to Raytheon is not wrong. Raytheon are the fuckin wronguns!
solid
reasons to target raytheon
12.06.2009 16:22
Arundhati Roy
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State”
Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mohandas Gandhi
"We recommend that people throughout the world launch nonviolent actions against US and UK corporations that directly profit from this war”
- 7th Recommendation of the World Tribunal on Iraq, June 2005; www.worldtribunal.org
tom paine