Rooftop Protest at Bristol Bomb Maker

They're there because Raytheon produce some of the most hideous military hardware imaginable (they claim to be world leaders in "smart" hidware). Bunker busters and cluster bombs being just two examples of their lethal hardware.

Their hardware wasn't smart enough to avoid 62 civilians in Iraq:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-proof-marketplace-dea...

As CAAT reports, "Raytheon is the prime contractor for the Tomahawk cruise missile and the JSOW AGM-154, both of which deliver BLU/97B submunitions." (that's cluster bombs to you and me). They've got a regular stall at DSEi:
http://www.caat.org.uk/publications/armsfairs/dsei-2003-report/clusterbombs.php

And do you remember Israel's little bombing frenzy in the summer of 2006? When they blasted Lebanon to smithereens? Well Raytheon's hardware played its part:
http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/newswire.php?story_id=25266

All that seems reason enough to protest Raytheon's presence in Bristol. In fact plenty of people have been protesting against Raytheon. Nine fine folk from Northern Ireland were recently (June 2008) "acquitted in Belfast for their action in decommissioning the Raytheon offices in Derry in August 2006. The prosecution could produce not a shred of evidence to counter our case that we had acted to prevent the commission of war crimes during the Lebanon war by the Israeli armed forces using weapons supplied by Raytheon."
http://www.raytheon9.org/

The rooftop protesters want Raytheon, and the rest of the world to know, that there'll be protests every Thursday at Raytheon's offices in Bristol. Let's give 'em hell!

Bristol IndyMedia has regular updates on their front page:
http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/index.php

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[GreenTeaGringo]

@landsker I have nothing against Germans, but I am glad that the Battle of Britain was won by us, so that we were not invaded. I believe this was before Hitler turned his attention to his eastern front.

[landsker]

@GreenTeaGringo Was hast du gegen Deutschland, oder bist du gegen das ganzes Welt?

[landsker]

Was hat er gegen das Deutsche Volk? All the spin in the England will not disguise the truth, that the Russians, not the English defeated the Axis in WW2. Ireland defended their country, and soundly thrashed the brits, without a single airplane, without not even one tank. The only thing raytheon wants is money, and they kill to get it.

[landsker]

@GreenTeaGringo Do you not like speaking German ? Do you not like Germans?

Was hast du gegen das Deutsche Volk? Just what kind of talent builds bombs, and anyway, all the spin in the England will not disguise the truth, that the Russians, not the English defeated the Axis in WW2. Ireland defended their country, and soundly thrashed the brits, without a single airplane, without not even one tank.

[GreenTeaGringo]

There is a lot of good British talent working in defence, and we'd be speaking German if it weren't for this tradition.

[mottylad2]

so you think its right to stop people working because you think it is ethically wrong if u people got what you wanted this country would go to pot how stupid are you really i hope the bombs land on a big iraqi school

[adsense1]

What SirTannen and I both said could be considered redundant. Let the Real Debate Begin! ( Starter Pistol Fires )

[SirTannen]

Actually what montgonva said could be considered spam. Anyways short vid.

[montgonova]

1st unspammed comment,I subbed :)

[Crazyretard2008]

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