Appeasement / immunity do not work.

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday October 16, 2002 11:21 by Joe McG

Get the war mongers.

If you or I gave a dollar or a bullet to Saddam or the C-IRA we'd spend a long time in the nick. Why then are we taking no action against the people who armed Hitler, Hussein, Bin Laden and countless other cronies?

if we do not punish these people then they will continue to get rich arming the next bunch of Hitlers and Husseins.

Why are Thatcher, Major, bush Snr, Cheney etc... not in jail for arming a nutter like Saddam?
why are the companies that sold him weapons still free to sell weapons to other nutters?

Weapons kill people. even without ebing fired, people who have them run rough-shod over the unarmed. And by allowing the arms trade we destroy people's democracy and human rights.

Today's ally is tomorrow's enemy.
Sell F-14 to Iran, then Iran changes, so arm Iraq to smach Iran.
then Iraq becomes the bad guy.

... more weapons, more profits... yet no prosecutions.

There are 50-60 arms companies in Ireland.
Each plays a part in the death of civilians in the third world. (parts for mines, APCs, missiles, attack choppers)
We let it slide. We CAN'T let it slide.

The government here pretends to be unaccountable for these deaths, even as they issue export licenses for the weapons (and get taxes on the profits)

Let's hold them accountable.
No third world dictator would last a year without being propped up with arms and finance.

Read Amnesty or AfrI's reports on the arms trade, demand action from your political 'masters'.