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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7So the clarified story is that at the moment they're pulling out of cluster bomb makers. (The upcoming Cluster Munitions Conference in Croke Park in May has something ot do with this).
But once the legislation is changed it will allow investment policy to be made on ethical grounds as well as financial, so it will set a great precedent for calling on the government to withdraw our money from the peddlers of nuclear and other types of weaponry.
This conference centre and pitch is being used to house and refresh makers in weaponry
and killing machines?
Mostly we agree that the knackers who attempt to lead us but abuse office to further crony
interests have done their time-
According to a report by A.F.R.I. in 2006 the Irish government profit up to FIVE BILLION EURO in taxes alone from the arms trade here in Neutral Ireland. Manufacturers here make the software and hardware installed for missiles which are what make them 'smart bombs', We also make the triggers for cluster bombs in Galway.
When it comes to ethics the Irish government has zero. They could care less about the suffering we cause and participate in as witnessed by an activist when approached during the election on this issue. As minister for trade and enterprise Harney denied that Ireland was participating in the arms trade saying....'they probably make kettles for all I know'...her get out clause is the ...'dual use purpose'...
Thet are all guilty of warcrimes.
Minister for defense Willy O Dea invested in Petrel Resources just before Shock and awe and his stock rose by 410 % just after the massacre started and he dosent see a conflict of interest.
The Irish Government is nothing but a Parasite Fascist morally bankrupt gohst of what it pretends to be. Im sure the women and men who sacrificed their lives to create an Irish State are turning in their graves to see what the current cabal of greedy warmongering self serving cowards have done with their dream of Soverigenty and Independence.
Dermot Aherne is the man who pleaded with the newly installed Iraqi government to Spare the life of Sadam Hussein and never spared a single word for the 1.2 million civilians we have killed.....he probably thought he could still sell Sadam beef like the Govt did in the 80's while he earned the name 'The Butcher Of Baghdad'
I wonder Mr Aherne, does this mean you will remove and re-invest the money already turned over to arms manufacturing....or as your article says they will ' no longer' invest in unethical stock and leave their initial investment alone??.
The event in croke park in May is an iNTERNATIONAL ANTI CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONFERENCE.
There is an organisation operating now here in Ireland and they will be running a speaking tour round the country- when I get their proper name etc i'll post it.
The conference and Campaign are welcome but let's not let it distract us by thinking if we stop investing in one particular type of weapon through campaining that we are achieving the political sea change we need. In the words of a Palestinian mate of mine 'the day i found myself on foot ,facing a tank and i was wearing a 'control small arms' T shirt - I was forced to reevaluate my priorities'..........
CTL, Galway, which does research for the merchants of death, including Lockheed and Raytheon, is subsidized by the Irish and British governments.
http://www.entemp.ie/press/2005/20051006.htm
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/12...omnet
t was now proposed to withdraw these investments. The spokesman said five of the companies were US-based: Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Alliant Techsystems and L3 Communications. The sixth was a French company, Thales.
Time for some all Ireland thinking on Raytheon and Thales then.
Is anyone interested in trying to exert pressure on the government in a co-ordinated fashion to divest from nuclear weapons manafacturers? I think it's a good time to start moving on it, and Ireland (believe it or not) has a good record in setting precedents on Nuclear Disarmament. fleetinggentleman@yahoo.co.uk if so.