EDO Gets Grassed Up to Sussex Police

crimestoppers | 11.06.2005 20:09 | Anti-militarism | London | South Coast

Over 100 concerned citizens of Brighton today reported EDOs complicity in war crimes to Sussex Police.

Police change their tune when they take a glance at the evidence against EDO MBM

YESTERDAY 10th June

'On hearing of Smash EDO's plans to deliver evidence against EDO to Brighton police station, Kevin Moore, Superintendent of Brighton Police said: "We will not be investigating them for war crimes because that is nonsense'

http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus/archive/2005/06/10/NEWS20ZM.html

but

TODAY 11 June
(after protestors delivered the evidence)

'Police [Kevin Moore]said they would consider the allegations made against EDO MBM Technology.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4084304.stm

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If you have any information about Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, or Crimes Against Humanity (involving EDO MBM in any way) contact Brighton police. Dial 0845 60 70 999.

There may be a Crimestoppers reward.

http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/

Meanwhile you can contact Kevin Moore,

kevin.moore@sussex.pnn.police.uk Superintendent of Brighton Police (Dial 0845 60 70 999) and ask him what he is doing about the evidence before him.

crimestoppers

Comments

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Wow ! You must be onto something.

12.06.2005 10:31

I am amazed at the self-belief of you sad little people, you're so wrapped-up in doing your little bit for "peace" (we will leave aside the fact that your activities are almost certainly having the opposite of the effect you intended), that you really think that "investigating war crimes" is synonymous with "considering allegations".

There isn't an officer in the force that would leave himself so open by saying that he will "not be considering allegations" of any type. But don't get too excited yet, this consideration will do no more than conclude that there are no war crimes to be investigated and you have simply (once again) wasted police and us taxpayers' public money. Of course, this will then delight your small band of activists by giving them more ammunition to spout-off regarding 'repression', 'the right to protest' and 'complicity of the state' blah blah blah etc etc etc (continued page 94).

It is slow progress, but democracy is coming to Iraq and with luck other repressive middle-east regimes may follow, and you and your band of wasters cannot stop it. the arrogance with which you believe you know what is best for the people of Iraq is astounding. What is all comes down to, is that you are able to crawl back to where you came from at the end of the day, really believing that you have 'done your bit'. so you see, it is not about the people of Iraq, it is about your own self-image ..........really sad !!

The Cat in the hat

Evidence please?

12.06.2005 12:07

Great breakthrough but it would be helpful if you could detail the evidence set before Brighton Police that has made them change their tune.

Congratulations on your perseverance.

name

Check this

12.06.2005 18:13

Click here for latest developments

https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/313135.html

Andrew

hmmm

12.06.2005 18:32

"the arrogance with which you believe you know what is best for the people of Iraq is astounding"

Well, you know. Thats why us small band of activists invaded and occupied Iraq and are busy building permanent military bases, imprisoning tens of thousands without charge, levelling whole towns flogging off every asset cheap to our corporate backers against the wishes of the Iraqi population.

Twat.

armchair general

Oh and I thought Edo might be on Crimewatch

12.06.2005 19:40

Ignoring the fact that some contributors to this list do not have the capacity to recognise symbolism the demo was a real turning point yesterday. The police have been put in the position of being reminded they are public servants to all the people of Brighton and are answerable to us all.

Peacenik

Edo Intelligence? Oxymoron of the week.

12.06.2005 20:05

How dare we try to dictate what is good for Iraq, that's the warmongers' job.

The comments by this 'enlightened' person as well as being dumb completely show that these pro-Edo types do not understand the people they are dealing with. Just thinking it's all down to ego and we will all get bored and go away and get jobs (which most of us have).

THe fact is that Edo have completely mishandled their little problem and have effectively been our 'publicity agents'. Why try to think of publicity stunts when Edo do things like take out injunctions, persuade the police to clamp down on us, etc. etc.

So come on Edo let's hear your side of the story in the press and media. How are you contributing to a greater world? Can you persuade people with the strength of your argument? Is subsidising you scroungers to the tune of £900 Million good value for money? You've got the money so I'm sure you can do better than you've managed so far. Jibes about getting jobs, strumming guitars, etc are not really the kind of arguments we find challenging so please try to do a bit better and give us a real challenge.

Must try harder.

Brad

You gotta laugh

12.06.2005 20:22

In the early 80s when Bruce Kent and CND were (and still are) accused of being in the pay of the Russians. CND obviously denied this and offered a reward for anyone who had proof this was true. The reward is still unclaimed to this day.

I was told this story by Bruce Kent himself demonstrating outside the High Court at the Edo injunction trial.

You don't think Edo would try anything like this do you?

Clarke

Running up that Hill

12.06.2005 20:49

I always like the way some contributors to this list name themselves after the author or title of the last book they read. For example "The Cat in the hat".

Cute.

Dr. Seuss

Regarding the disinformation in the linked hidden article

13.06.2005 08:59

Sorry, but who the hell is Garaham Rickman, and why should we believe his emails?

He tells us that:

" Of late DRS have been having a tough time, sales have not been good because of the successs of MBM. It seems that somebody decided that a little trouble for MBM could be good for DRS."

Which doesn't quite pan out in the real world:

"On November 5th, DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:DRS - News) reported record financial results for the second quarter and six-month period ended September 30, 2004. Fiscal 2005 second quarter results included significant gains in revenues, operating income, net earnings and earnings per share. A second quarter record in new orders for products and services increased funded backlog at the end of the period to an all-time high."

and

"For the first six months of fiscal 2005, DRS posted record revenues of $628.8m, 68 percent above revenues of $373.4m for the same period last year. Higher revenues for the first half were primarily attributable to the addition of sales from the IDT acquisition operations and organic growth primarily associated with the company's Naval display workstations, ship sensor systems, data link and other communications systems, Naval electric drive and other power systems, U.S. and international army tactical computer systems, airborne, ground-based and maritime thermal imaging systems, and infrared assemblies product lines."

http://www.battle-technology.com/this_issue05i.html

It took me a whole minute to google that..........

The suggestion that the campaign is run against one arms company to help the failing sales of another arms company is laughable for anyone who has met the injunctees or others who operate under the smashEDO banner, or been to any of the smashEDO actions or meetings.

Neither does "Alan Permain" appear as am officer or director of DRS Technologies:

http://www.drs.com/corporateInfo/directors.cfm

http://www.drs.com/corporateInfo/officers.cfm

In fact the only "Alan Permain" that google comes up with is a lecturer at a British University ...............

It appears that the smashEDO banner is having some success if stories like this have to be invented to diss the campaign.

ftp

ftp

No such person - no-one at home

13.06.2005 09:24

"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

G.K.Rickman@tiscali.co.uk

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 10): 550 RCPT TO: User unknown"

Now, anyone can check that out right?

ftp