On the multi-billion- pound Defence Training Academy development at St Athan, it says: “Plaid would have preferred if this major funding had gone into a scheme or schemes not so directly involved with the military. Nevertheless, the possibilities are there if we work to take them.”
Waht possibilities are these???
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Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Sunday, 30 September 2007
St Athan Military Academy colluding with arms manufacturers
Hypocrisy from Brown icwales Sep 29 2007
AS the monks in Burma are joined by more and more brave people to campaign for their freedom, the stench of hypocrisy from world leaders is overwhelming.
Who armed the despotic military dictatorship of Indonesia, which killed up to 200,000 people during their occupation of East Timor?
Britain and the US.
Who armed Saddam Hussein, who gassed thousands of his own people? Britain and the US.
Who is arming Israel with the latest lethal high tech weapons – cluster bombs, sound bombs etc used against the civilian populations in Lebanon and Palestine?
Britain and the US.
As Brown, Cameron and Bush shed their crocodile tears for Burma, the bullets, tanks and guns mowing down innocent people around the world have Britain stamped all over them.
Britain is selling arms and technology to 19 of the 20 nations at the top of the Foreign Office’s list of human rights abusers, and fuels regional instability by arming opposing sides in conflicts around the world.
Gordon and George demand the rights of the Burmese people to peacefully demonstrate.
But it was our Labour Government which brought out the most Draconian laws against peaceful protests, like Brian Haw’s vigil in Parliament Square against the Iraq war.
Can I also remind the Plaid/Labour coalition that the St Athan military academy, which they are all clamouring for, will be colluding with all the arms manufacturers responsible for the deaths of so many, and will undoubtedly be training some of the world’s dictators on how to kill and oppress their own people.
Ray Davies
Pandy Road, Bedwas, Caerphilly
For more information about Metrix Consortium the Mc Mercenaries Training and arms dealers
and private military coporations click here
AS the monks in Burma are joined by more and more brave people to campaign for their freedom, the stench of hypocrisy from world leaders is overwhelming.
Who armed the despotic military dictatorship of Indonesia, which killed up to 200,000 people during their occupation of East Timor?
Britain and the US.
Who armed Saddam Hussein, who gassed thousands of his own people? Britain and the US.
Who is arming Israel with the latest lethal high tech weapons – cluster bombs, sound bombs etc used against the civilian populations in Lebanon and Palestine?
Britain and the US.
As Brown, Cameron and Bush shed their crocodile tears for Burma, the bullets, tanks and guns mowing down innocent people around the world have Britain stamped all over them.
Britain is selling arms and technology to 19 of the 20 nations at the top of the Foreign Office’s list of human rights abusers, and fuels regional instability by arming opposing sides in conflicts around the world.
Gordon and George demand the rights of the Burmese people to peacefully demonstrate.
But it was our Labour Government which brought out the most Draconian laws against peaceful protests, like Brian Haw’s vigil in Parliament Square against the Iraq war.
Can I also remind the Plaid/Labour coalition that the St Athan military academy, which they are all clamouring for, will be colluding with all the arms manufacturers responsible for the deaths of so many, and will undoubtedly be training some of the world’s dictators on how to kill and oppress their own people.
Ray Davies
Pandy Road, Bedwas, Caerphilly
For more information about Metrix Consortium the Mc Mercenaries Training and arms dealers
and private military coporations click here
Friday, 21 September 2007
St Athan on line debate
St Athan - Page 2 - urban75 forumsSt Athan Wales/Cymru. ... she could get a press released published in the Western Mail tomorrow opposing or expressing concerns about the Military Academy. ...
Originally Posted by Udo Erasmus.....The key thing is a public statement.If Jill Evans wanted to, she could get a press released published in the Western Mail tomorrow opposing or expressing concerns about the Military Academy. Has she?
Originally Posted by llantwit...quote... Given that the St Athan project is in many ways a public-private partnership with amongst other companies, the missile manufacturer Raytheon you'd think that that'd be reason enough for plaid members to campaign against it....I think it's impossible that Plaid can say it's against the arms trade and not against the 'school for slaughter'/'murder academy'/insert pithy nomencalture here. The whole project is so bound up with arms companies like Raytheon it's unbelievable. Also, it seems a bit odd to decide not to oppose the St Athan Academy on the pragmatic grounds that there's little chance of a campaign actually winning, and then commit your party to the mammoth task of extricating Wales from the arms industry.
Originally Posted by Udo Erasmus.....The key thing is a public statement.If Jill Evans wanted to, she could get a press released published in the Western Mail tomorrow opposing or expressing concerns about the Military Academy. Has she?
Originally Posted by llantwit...quote... Given that the St Athan project is in many ways a public-private partnership with amongst other companies, the missile manufacturer Raytheon you'd think that that'd be reason enough for plaid members to campaign against it....I think it's impossible that Plaid can say it's against the arms trade and not against the 'school for slaughter'/'murder academy'/insert pithy nomencalture here. The whole project is so bound up with arms companies like Raytheon it's unbelievable. Also, it seems a bit odd to decide not to oppose the St Athan Academy on the pragmatic grounds that there's little chance of a campaign actually winning, and then commit your party to the mammoth task of extricating Wales from the arms industry.
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