The Time Of Year Of Remembrance & Respect

[TheGoodGuy]

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[Win2Win]

My grandad was killed in WW2 by a German parachute bomb while in the army

I know a few guys who have been serving in Afghanistan, luckily they are all back safe, but still have another deployment to go.

[Godspot]

Anyone remember Will Fisher? What a man!

"The pity of it all, that flesh should be so cheap!

The 20th century, the Age of Luxury; the triumph of wealth production; of labour saving and life saving appliances & 450 of the highest evolved species of animal needlessly sacrificed!!

Everyone in connection with mining, and anyone outside who reads at all, knows that accumulations of gas can be prevented by efficient ventilation; that dusty roads can be avoided by regular waterings.

Why the Hell are these things neglected? because of the expense! and labour being so dirt-cheap; Look you! the average L W Coll Co (colliery company) turns over its invested capital every eight years; and the Capitalists blood-stained claw still reaches for more." http://education.gtj.org.uk/trails/c...11.php?lang=en

He survived WW1 after giving his gas mask away cos he knew his lungs were fcuked & later died from injuries incurred in above tragedy but it goes on

[Win2Win]

Anyone remember Will Fisher? What a man!

Not sure we have any members over 100

[MarcusMel]

What is the value of one life when there are 6.5 billion of them? I'm crazy, I care about people, yet people don't seem to care what they do when their beliefs are upset or their resources are running out. I cry, really I do cry, when I think about the wars we were and are involved in, however remembering doesn't seem to change any habits.

[Godspot]

however remembering doesn't seem to change any habits.

Yours or his Marcus? To be honest I find the whole thing rather insulting - seeing the PM wielding that girt wreath, being told to remember....

When everyday, my inbox is full of stuff like this:

Cameron, BAE's travelling salesman, at Farnborough in July. Read
about his Middle East trip.
<http://www.caat.org.uk/press/press-release.php?url=20121105prs>

David Cameron: Arming repressive regimes is 'legitimate'
This week David Cameron claimed that weapons sales to repressive
regimes are 'legitimate and right'. Help us show that this is NOT OK.
<http://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/this-is-not-ok/petition-map.php>

Cameron's just returned from a three-day trip to the Middle East where
he revisited his role as travelling salesman for BAE Systems. This
time he was trying to flog Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates and Oman.

Never mind that these are authoritarian regimes with appalling human
rights records. Never mind that these are regimes which have played a
shameful role in suppressing democratic uprisings in the region,
including Saudi military intervention with UK-made armoured vehicles
<http://www.caat.org.uk/press/press-release.php?url=20110316prs>
in Bahrain.

Peter Luff, Cameron's ex Defence Minister, defended the visit: "I'm
not condoning human rights abuses, of course not, but ... sometimes
you have to be pragmatic."

Cameron promised he would 'not hold back' from mentioning human rights
while he was there, but his real message was clear: a message of UK
support for authoritarian regimes and the UK government's willingness
to do anything to promote arms company interests.

**Turning embarrassment into change**

Cameron initially tried to keep his visit quiet: apparently he was
irritated by being criticised for promoting arms sales to human rights
abusers.

This spectacularly backfired: his visit was headline news for two days
this week, and the issue won't be going away soon. Even before
Cameron's visit, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee launched an
inquiry to look at the UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia and
Bahrain, including the balance between promoting trade and promoting
human rights.

Peter Luff blamed developments like this on the lobbying of
organisations like us, complaining it "does real damage to our arms
exports." We're taking that as encouragement!

**Help keep up the pressure...**

You've already added your name to our petition
<http://www.caat.org.uk/campaigns/this-is-not-ok/petition-map.php>
to say arming repressive regimes is NOT OK – thank you. Can you
now help us build it, by passing the message onto five friends?

Ask your friends to add their support here:
http://act.caat.org.uk/petition/10
or share the campaign via Twitter. <http://clicktotweet.com/IdfUc>

This month local constituents have organised a public meeting
<http://www.traknat.org.uk/tk/?page_id=60>
with Vince Cable, whose government department continues to promote
weapons sales, where they will hold him to account for the UK's sales
to repressive regimes. They'll be presenting our petition to Dr Cable
at the meeting, so please help us reach 10,000 signatures before the
end of November, by sharing the petition today.
<http://act.caat.org.uk/petition/10>

Thank you for your support.

Sarah Waldron

Core Campaign Co-ordinator

Campaign Against Arms Trade <http://www.caat.org.uk/>