Iraq war firm asks for bar on protests

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1456599,00.html

Iraq war firm asks for bar on protests

Rachel Shabi
Monday April 11, 2005
The Guardian

An arms components company which makes bomb parts that were used in the Iraq war is taking legal action to stop anti-war protests being held outside its factory.

The Forbes-listed US company, EDO MBM, which has a subsidiary at Home Farm Industrial Estate, Brighton, is seeking an injunction under the Harassment Act against 14 people and two groups, Smash EDO and the now defunct Bombs Out of Brighton.

An injunction could ban those individuals and groups, and, by association, potentially hundreds of other protesters, from going within a half-mile radius of the EDO premises - except on Thursday afternoons, for two hours, when quiet demonstrations of up to 10 people would be permitted.


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[htuttle]

1. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the bomb-building business

Is there any precedence for a private company in the UK winning an injunction like this?

[G_j]

2. my thoughts exactly..well boo hoo...

:cry:

you make bombs for an illegal war don't you?

[damntexdem]

3. Hey, war profiteering has always been more important than ...

citizen rights to protest war -- than all citizen rights, for that matter.

[xchrom]

4. cry me a fuckin river

what a bunch of fuckin jerks.

you make bombs that indiscrimanently kill loads of people and you can't stand a few protestors? puhleeez....

[leftchick]

5. making tons of $$$ in the death business.....

I feel so bad... :sarcasm:

[NYC]

6. Corporations think they can dictate what civil rights

citizens have.