PAW: Weapons Conference Disrupted
Peace Action Wellington hung massive banners at Te Papa today condemning the Government supported Defence Industry Association annual conference being held there. Activists disrupted the conference with noisemakers and hanted,
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All good comrades
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good stuff
arms trade
death trade!
arms race at
our place!
-- bobo
Thanks heaps,,
for the faith restoration! Maybe to mark Bhopal this year we shut down our own USA WMD factory in NP? anyone?
Fuck that looks good.
Te Papa never had such good art work hanging in its galleries as what it had yesterday.
Good one Helen
Hopefully we can create more jobs by building weapons to kill of all the sand people so we can make this world happier place.
get a grip!
we dont spend ENOUGH on our defence force!!!
im VERY left wing, but am gutted i become tarred with the same brush as you loony lot!
our defence force IS spending in the wrong place admittedlly though, we need to reinvigorate our air force to defend our EEZ, our fisheries are being raped now our strike jets are out of service, an Orion is hardly scary to the trawlers stealing our fish. and we DO need a disinsentive to militarised countries on our borders like the filthy genocidal indonesians, if you idiots had your way we'd be invaded by the indonesians in a second.
a healthy balance is needed, we spend 0.4 percent on our budget on our military, thats roughly 2 weeks worth of WINZ running costs. for a whole years worth of military spending......
Did I miss something?
- "im VERY left wing"
Really?
Your post contains:
- explicit racism
- implicit beneficiary bashing
- and an unquestioning commitment to militarism
Who exactly is the lunatic here?
BTW, the event wasn't about NZDF military spending (which is an entirely different area), but about the state sponsored growth of our 'budding' defence industry.
bring it on!
Im a new immigrant here, and I would LOVE for us to be invaded and occupied nby Indonesia, if only to see the look on Rick's face!
Salamat Datang!
Re: PAW: Weapons Conference Disrupted
And the continuing so-called war on terror has actually made the world a less safe place, and if anything NZ helping support it will make it MORE likely that we will be invaded by Indonesia. The weapons delegates were not defending NZ from attack, they were profiteering from US expansionist policy.
I'm not a great fan of Helen Clark's government but one thing she did do right was keep combat forces out of Iraq. Now we need to keep the weapons profiteers out of there as well.
Phil
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UR ALL HIPPIES!!!!