Dual Standards

I have received an email from somebody I don’t know so I can’t vouch for its authenticity.
It says there is going to be a "Musical Protest" this coming Saturday, 17th January 2009, 1-4pm, down at the Excel Centre, Custom House.

Apparently Excel have invited Arms Dealers from all over the world to another "Arms Fair" for 2009.

Just what we need right now innit? Of course the usual crap will emanate from the mouths of babes Ministers that this "Industry" is "good" for the economy and "creates" jobs. No fucking shit! Just the same as supplying Arms to regimes whose Human Rights record is abysmal. Stoning homosexuals and female victims of rape.

Just what Planet are these people on?

We might as well have "Knife Fairs" in our schools. It’s good for the economy and creates jobs you know. Fuck the casualties or should I say collateral damage?

I have no wish to downplay or make fun of those youngsters who have lost their lives over recent years or diminish the anguish felt by their family and friends. What I wish to do is use that sacrifice to highlight the hypocrisy of our Government. A government that wants Trident Nuclear weapons and is prepared to lie in order to legitimise it’s own use of Arms.

If we are appalled by the loss of life of our own children through Knifes, then why are we not also appalled at the loss of other peoples children through guns, bombs and missiles supplied by British Companies and I have to say British workers supported by British Trade Unions?