Selling execution equipment to Africa

[Dom Tuk]

So a British farmer has been selling execution equipment to Africa for the past decade.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4754515

Why is it so wrong considering that British arms manufacturers have been selling arms to all the major conflicts and dictators in the world.

[andy-hughes]

Slight flaw in the argument there I think - it's wrong, and selling arms is wrong, and so is generally getting mixed up in the taking of lives for financial gain.

[Ralph]

"Multi-hanging Execution Systems" mounted on lorry trailers!! And he defends it saying "some people deserve the death penalty"!!!!! What a <expletive deleted>!

Like Andy said, it's wrong either way, but this chap has all the morals of a drug dealer selling to children.

[Dom Tuk]

So will the department of Trade and Industry be quick to ban arms sales to africa as they did selling hanging equipment from this farmer. Think not as the monies is much more.

[jake-the-peg]

You're right. The arms trade is an absolute abomination and has been largely responsible for much of the poverty in Africa.

Sounds as if he should have applied for a certificate and then he'd have been fine!

We keep hearing all the cr@p about "if we don't do it someone else will" and "look at the number of jobs it'd affect"

Strangely enough such arguments aren't the same when applied to the drugs trade

funny that

[Lonnie]

Problem is, if there's a market for something, you will always find someone willing to sell, if they were to dig deeper, they'd probably find worse thing being sold.

[jake-the-peg]

That sounds like a council of dispair Lonnie

"We can't stop it so we'll wring our hands and do nothing"

We don't take that attitude with the drugs trade so why turn a blind eye to the arms trade.

[smithers]

I agree Dom and I understand what you are saying unlike some others "A spokeswoman for the Department of Trade and Industry said the government was pleased the export of gallows was being made unlawful"

But yet our arms companies can trade arms to Rwanda to assist in the genocide of 1,000.000 innocent tutsi's?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide#Arms_shipments

http://www.lordofwarthemovie.com/

http://www.controlarms.org/

[Lonnie]

jake, you took my post the wrong way, not your fault, possibly the way I wrote it, even though this person has been caught, and believe me, I do not agree with the arms trade one bit, by individuals or goverments, and I wouldn't wash my hands of it at all, I thought all I was doing was stating a fact,