smashEDO...
Who are EDO?
Brighton-based EDO MBM are a wholly owned subsidiary of EDO Corp, a US-based arms multinational that is currently number 10 on the Forbes 100 list of fastest growing companies.
EDO's military products include bomb racks, release
clips and arming mechanisms for warplanes.
They have contracts with the UK Ministry of 'Defence' and US arms
giant Raytheon
relating to the release mechanisms of the Paveway bomb system.
EDO MBM's supply of weapons systems for the illegal
aggression and subesquent war crimes committed in Iraq makes their
directors war criminals.
International law is very clear on this point: in the 1947 trial
of Bruno Tesch, a German industrialist, the court acted
"on the principle that any civilian who is an accessory to a violation of the laws and customs of war is himself also liable as a war criminal".
Tesch was convicted even though he did not supply
products for specifically criminal purpose because he carried
on supplying them when he became aware they were being used to
commit atrocities.
Release mechanisms may not be as 'glamourous' as warheads, but
they are just as crucial to the committing of the atrocities in
Iraq.
Dave Jones, EDO MBM's Managing Director has said under oath
that he is "fully aware" of what his products are used for.
smashEDO campaigners have read out testimonies from the survivors
of the Fallujah massacre over a megaphone outside EDO. They have
shown pictures of those killed or wounded by the bombing campaign.
They have directed attention to the report in the Lancet which
estimates over 100,000 civilians have been killed, mostly by the
Coalition bombing which EDO's products make possible. Yet EDO
continues its complicity...
. . . we cannot rest until these war criminals are brought to justice!
The smashEDO website reproduces pictures of weapons systems taken unedited from EDO MBM's website. EDO claim they are not involved in bombing, but they seem happy to boast about it to would-be customers. Have a look and decide for yourself. The pictures beneath EDO's products are all from post-invasion Iraq, from various reliable sources.
About smashEDO...
"We recommend that people throughout the world launch nonviolent actions against US and UK corporations that directly profit from this war”
We are residents of Brighton who marched against the war. We were sickened to learn that a company in our home town was not only profiting from, but making possible the illegal and immoral slaughter in Iraq. SmashEDO is a grassroots response to EDO's complicity in murderous crimes - a banner under which people opposed to those crimes can rally.
"No government's condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to be open to change by nonviolent dissent”
As the UK government blindly follows the US regime, citizens of the UK have a special responsibility to prevent crimes around the world being committed in our name, with our taxes, with weapons built in our communities.
"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State”
EDO are running scared - spending tens of thousands of pounds trying to silence us in the courts. EDO claim their weapons defend democracy - yet a High Court Judge threw out most of their proposed injunction as too draconian, commenting that "freedom of expression is a right jealously guarded in English law".
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
History teaches us that when ordinary people stand up together for their beliefs, nothing can stand in their way. That is what democracy is about; ordinary people making decisions - not rich corporations spending tens of thousands of pounds to reduce dissent to literally silence - which is what EDO want.
EDO have ignored us, then laughed at us and now in desperation they are fighting us - but we will win!
For more info and details about current activities visit the smashEDO website, or contact them here.
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