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Direct Action at EDO, Brighton, on Global Day of Action on Military Spending

anti-militarist | 15.04.2013 12:25 | Smash EDO | Public sector cuts | World

Workers at EDO in Brighton arrived to work today to find the front gates drenched with red paint, symbolising the blood of the victims of the weapons manufacturer.

Today is International Day On Military Spending. The UK has higher military spending than almost every other country in the world: it ranks fourth, spending £39 billion every year. The government protects the military budget and subsidises each of the 55,000 jobs in the arms industry by over £12,000 per year, whilst subjecting vital public services to drastic spending cuts. 56,000 jobs in the NHS are expected to be cut.

EDO is a massive recipient of UK military spending. For instance, In 2012, the MoD awarded Raytheon a new £60 million contract to replenish supplies of Paveway IV guided bombs to the British Army. EDO MBM (a unit of US arms dealers ITT Exelis) will manufacture the umbilical interconnect system and containers in Brighton. Paveway IV bombs have been used in Afghanistan and Libya and an earlier model of the Paveway was used in Iraq.

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All welcome

15.04.2013 12:57

Except Jews

Long memory


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last summer

15.04.2013 15:37

I guess after pissing off a number of your previous supporters by throwing out two people from the group just because they are jewish has meant you need some new blood now ?

last summer


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@last summer

15.04.2013 16:05

that never happened, troll.
well done to whoever was involved today.

shut the arms dealers down


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O yes it did

15.04.2013 16:55

Stop lying

Three jewish supporters of SmashEDO were asked to leave the campaign because new supporters who are involved with the Brighton Palestinian support network objected to working with jews.

Note: Not Israelis, Not Zionists, Not IDF members just jews.

last summer


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He's behind you!

15.04.2013 17:09

Well a bloke in a pub told me they kicked out 4,000 members just because they looked a bit Jewish.

Last Christmas


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Hide all you like

16.04.2013 06:53

Hide the comments all you like doesn't hide the fact that two SmashEDO supporters and workers were asked to leave the organisation last summer at the direct request of a Palestinian group because they were Jewish.

SmashEDO should be ashamed of itself but frankly with the growth of antisemitism in the UK Left I doubt they will even feel embarrassed.

The truth will out


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The failure of SMASH EDO

16.04.2013 08:47

The campaign started to fall apart 18 months ago when that tit Dave started to think he was in charge. The expulsion of the Jewish supporters and the capitulation to the nutjobs of the Brighton & Hove PSC was no great shock to any of us that has seen how this campaign has moved from a focus on the arms trade to a focus on Israel and the "Jewish lobby in Brighton".

I am one of a number of people who moved on to work elsewhere in the fight against the arms trade and those who profit from it.

Other groups do more


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UAF and Antifa Give Nazi Salutes in Brighton

16.04.2013 09:41


The comical alliance between Antifa and Unite Against Fascism showed their hatred and hypocrisy in a major form at a Saint Georges Parade in Brighton.

At a family day out to celebrate the patron saint of England, The unholy alliance of Antifa, UAF and other Leftist groups gathered to throw abuse at the parade, they then decided to take it to the left level and rain down bottles full of alcohol and some filled of urine, bricks, coins and stones at the parade which was full of families and children celebrating the day.

The groups that took part in attacking those taking part in the parade were not provoked and they showed their true colours, once again, as a completely violent, Fascist, sickening alliance of Leftist hatred.

The hypocrisy then stepped up another notch when the pictures below were posted online of an Antifa/UAF member giving a sickening Nazi salute to the long lost political cousins of the Socialist Left, The National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter partei AKA The Nazi Party. Lets not forget, the same people giving a Nazi salute here are the same people who sprayed "Racist War Criminal" on Churchill's monument in the Westminster riots.

The Leftists have managed to dig their hole in society even deeper, just when I thought them and their actions could not physically repulse me any further, they do.

Antifa have even used pictures of Jewish Children in Concentration camps to bolster support for "Anti-Fascist prisoners" then give Nazi Salutes? They make me sick!

The Fascists of the future will be called "Anti-Fascists" - Winston Churchill

Jewish Defence League


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Muslim Racism is Not Anti-Zionism

16.04.2013 09:46


In order to explain the real racism of Muslims towards the Jews you can analyse writings and statements from Muslims which don't mention Zionism, Israel and Palestine. Indeed, to an even greater extent, you can analyse those writings and statements which often don't even mention Judaism or even the Koranic statements about the Jews.


One way to display this racism is by quoting from Muslims themselves who state that their hatred of the Jews has nothing really to do with the existence of Israel or Zionism.


For example, take Muhammad Hussein Yaqoub, an Egyptian cleric, speaking on Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) in January 2009. He said:


'If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. We will never love them. Absolutely not.'


Yaqoub then makes himself even clearer about his position on the Jews. Specifically, he emphasises that what matters is who the Jews are, not what they do or what they have done. This is pure and classic racism. He goes on:


'Your belief regarding the Jews should be, first, that they are infidels, and second, that they are enemies... They would be enemies if they did not occupy a thing...'


And because such negativity is stamped on the gene-pool no matter what, then race, and the negative attributes of the Jews, are 'eternal' and not open to change. Or, as Yaqoub puts it:


'We must believe that our fighting with the Jews is eternal... You must believe that we will fight, defeat, and annihilate them, until not a single Jew remains on the face of the Earth.'

Watch the video through this link:


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzlzDXWWRdM

Gilad


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@ JDF troll

16.04.2013 15:25

And where is a dragon? Each fairy tale has a dragon in it!

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